No Desserts For You!
No ice cream!? No cookies!? Nooooooo! After seeing students throw away their healthy home-packed desserts in favor of the fatty ones offered for sale in the cafeteria, a Connecticut high school principal banned junk food desserts to force healthier eating. I threw away my healthy food for snacks in elementary school, too.
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4 Comments:
That is just evil.
cakespy at 12:09AM on 01/11/08
Funny.
In most of the school cafeterias I've seen it's the school lunches straight from the trays that mostly get uneaten and thrown out. Not the food kids bring from home.
Goodness knows what is going on in Greenwich.
Karen Resta at 6:03AM on 01/11/08
You know - the school has the right to do what they want with the food - but it's not the food itself that is bad (everything is fine in moderation). It's the lack of good decision making and lack of self-discipline on the part of those consuming the food.
If they really want to help these kids (and the poor teachers that are going to suffer too - man I would have died when I worked in an office, if they had taken out the Coke and snack machines!) - then teach them self-discipline and nutrition. And then leave it up to them.
EdiEdi at 7:45AM on 01/11/08
Funny, NPR presented this story briefly by saying that the school board decided no more cookies and stuff would be sold at the school because students were tossing lunches and going straight for dessert. There was no differentiating between home-provided and school-provided desserts. As a matter of fact, no mention was made of home-provided desserts at all.
Hopefully this will be a trend. If more schools took the initiative to get crap out of the schools, kids would be taught to eat better. I know people in general don't want governmental/official intervention in this particular area but unless we get our kids off garbage food and sedentary lifestyles, we will have a medical disaster in less than one generation. Even if kids eat well at home, temptation could run rampant if they see all their friends eating sweets and fat at school. Peer pressure infiltrates all aspects of young childhood and young adulthood - even food.
chiff0nade at 1:22PM on 01/11/08