School lunches...

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School lunches...
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Thu, 12-02-2004 - 9:33am

This is being discussed rather heatedly on another board and I thought it might liven things up since we are soooooo sloooooow.


Are you allowed to eat with your kids? Can you bring in restaurant food? Any guidelines on what you can pack for your kids? Does the school have vendors? Is the school lunch program considered a necessary evil or a money maker for the school?


If there are guidelines on what you can pack, does this make you mad? Does it make you think they are taking

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Registered: 03-26-2003
Tue, 12-07-2004 - 11:32am

Mmm. I see. You can't think of a single way an orchestra trip could be funded other than out of the pocket change of kids in your district. The problem in your district is apparently not just soda sales, but logic.

Could you kindly point out where you got the notion that I believe soda=death?

(FTR I rarely agree with Lisa about anything, and certainly not her comments in this thread.)

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Tue, 12-07-2004 - 11:35am
Those activities would not have to be scaled back or eliminated -- but parents, students, and community members would have to come up with more creative ways of earning money. Likely they would involve more effort on everyone's part. Expediency trumps virtue -- just what I send my kids to school to learn.
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Tue, 12-07-2004 - 11:45am
Maybe they should let Toys R Us set up a branch right in their school too so long as they agree to throw the extracurricular programs a bone or two. Nothing illegal or immoral about toys, and we can blame bad parenting for any kid who squanders his lunch money on a pack of Mighty Beanz. (And what better learning opportunity for kids to learn about the disappointments of experimentation than to have them save up and buy nearly anything made by Hot Wheels?) That's what school is supposed to be about, profiting off of kids, isn't it?
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Registered: 05-18-2004
Tue, 12-07-2004 - 12:20pm

I also thing that nutrition is something you can teach your kids from a very young age. Sure, by the time the are in JH then you can't completely control what they eat outside the home. But by then, if they are nutrition concious, they can make their own decisions and hopefully, if they've been taught well, they will make good choices. Some people though have such awful eating habits themselves though that they just can't teach good nutrition to their kids.

Take my cousin in CA. We were visiting, and her son (same age as mine) had apple pie for breakfast. Ds wanted some, I said no. "why is he allowed to have pie for breakfast?" ds asks my aunt. "He's not a good breakfast eater so we allow him to have anything he wants" is the reply.

Lunch time comes. I make ds a plate of fruit, sandwhich, and some veggies. Cousins's child wants chocolate cake and soda. Ds asks for the cake, and I say that yes, he can have cake after lunch for a snack. Soda? No soda, but I'm not drinking it either...I'm having milk just like ds. Ds asks my aunt, "why can he have chocolate cake for lunch?" Aunt replies..."well he's not a good lunch eater either". Cousins child watches ds tuck into his lunch, PUSHES AWAY the chocolate cake and asks to have a sandwhich and fruit too. They had soda EVERY DAY for lunch and dinner. Yuk! I don't even buy it, mostly because we just don't like it. But we set the example. When ds was allowed soda, we had it. It was clearly a treat though, and then the rest of the time it was milk or water.

The most telling thing though was when my aunt offered ds fruit roll ups at 9 am, claiming they were a healthy snack. Ds looked at her and said politely..."Auntie, those aren't fruit, the first ingredient on the box is sugar. Can I have an apple?" As we left, ds turns to me and say, "Mom, I feel sorry for *****. If he keeps eating like that, he's not going to be healthy."

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Tue, 12-07-2004 - 12:24pm

"Your In Laws were not normal people. Normal people don't have a million dollars in debt. They must have done some serious things to get thei debt up that high and not be able to call bankruptcy."

I beg your pardon... you know nothing about them or their problems and it is very easy to become in debt for $1 million. Please don't judge something you know nothing about -- it is insulting to their memory.

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Registered: 03-25-2003
Tue, 12-07-2004 - 12:42pm
Did you notice the quotations around benign? When all their friends are having soda the choice will seem "benign", even if their parents have instructed otherwise and also because many do truly view the choice to drink soda as a benign choice. It is benign in modertation but can be very bad beyond moderation. What makes you think you'd find out if your kids had a soda at school, especially if you instructed them not to? Kids in JH are given plenty of opportunities to make choices, putting soda machines isn't necessary to teach kids about making choices.~Lisa
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Tue, 12-07-2004 - 12:45pm
Then you must of disagreed with me when I agreed with you in this thread too. Oh well.~Lisa
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Tue, 12-07-2004 - 12:48pm
I didn't say that people would die from drinking soda but if you prefer to read something that wasn't there, more power to you! My comments were that soda consumption can lead to obesity which can cause death. We have an epidemic of obesity in this country, you don't think that putting soda machines in schools can contribute to the problem,I disagree.~Lisa
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Registered: 03-29-2003
Tue, 12-07-2004 - 12:59pm

So on this person's death certificate the cause of death would say "obesity"?

Tracy

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Tue, 12-07-2004 - 1:10pm
Nope. That doesn't mean that obesity wasn't the root cause though.~Lisa

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