Obama, schools ponder best course on student fare

You went to a rough school if kids were being used as drug mules.

 

So because crappy parents don't make their kids exercise, schools shouldn't even bother to try to teach good habits -- or at the very least stop acting as enablers for the bad ones?

Parents don't try, so schools mustn't, either? It's as though it's some fundamental parental right to fuck your children up, and it's some fundamental violation of that right for schools to try to ameliorate that.

Once upon a time in America, things were tried without a guarantee of success.

 

I was going to make it a third but I was afraid for your health.

 

Sons are supposed to stay virgins as well.

But dads taking their sons to a ball, now, THAT would be creepy, well at least in most places around the country.....

 

So you are saying you support incest but only if it's hetero incest?

Seriously, if a girl or boy want to make a pledge to remain virgins, cool.

But pledging that to your father is just creepy.

 

h, Christ, now we're into the big bad government argument. What's next SOCILISM?

Please spare me this "free enterprise" bs as well. It's got to do with schools abnegating their responsibility in exchange for a fast buck

The fact that some parents may neglect their children's nutrition is no reason for schools to participate.

And the legislators aren't telling people what they can or can't eat. That's just plain right wing silliness. They're telling schools they can't sell it.

And let's not make huge generalizations about parents, their children and their kids' eating habits.

 

The high school I work at has taken out all soda machines in the name of health. Replaced with......water, which is fine and fruit juice. Have you ever seen the sugar content of those concentrated juice thingys? At least 24 grams, which is a shit ton of sugar and probably not any healthier than soda.

 

I think that schools are missing a fundraising opportunity -- they should allow smoking in the cafeteria provided the cigarettes are purchased from the cigarette machines located in the cafeteria. And that includes teachers.

 

IANAdietician, but I think it depends on what sort of juice. If it's 100% fruit juice, it has natural sugars that the body processes quickly and easily. If it's some sort of juice cocktail thingie, it might have high-fructose corn syrup, which is nasty stuff.

 

Because Taco Bell is a private business, while public schools are not.

 

If you think your kid is missing out because the snack machines are padlocked, you can always stuff the backpack with Mountain Dew, Ho Hos and Skittles.

This isn't a school issue, it's a personal responsibility issue.

Get off your lazy welfare-collecting ass and get a job so you can afford to load your chubby youngster down with cavity-causing snacks and stop requiring the public schools to do it for you.

 

I don't think the government should tell governmental agencies what to do. That's socialism!