If they were consenting adults then yes its their decision. That said its not that difficult to manipulate kids to go for fatty sugary food and drink. You cannot stop the exposure to adds touting high fructose corn syrup laden drinks. The kids don't have the tools yet to make that decision. So by discouraging junk food in the schools, it assists - it provides them a delay long enough until they understand the decisions they make and have the cognitive tools to decide for themselves.
On Fri, Jun 28, 2013 at 8:07 AM, Bruce Sorge <[email protected]> wrote: > > > http://www.military.com/daily-news/2013/06/28/retired-general-gets-junk-food-out-of-schools.html?ESRC=eb.nl > > My thoughts are this. If a child is eligible for free or reduced-cost > meals in school, then yes, you can control what they eat in school. > However, if the school offers an a la carte menu as well, and the kid has > the money to buy these items, then they should be free to buy whatever they > want. I mean, if a kid wants to have a cup cake in school, they will either > buy it or bring one from home. > > Now of course I can see the side where you have health conscious parents > who do not allow junk food in their house, and they send their kid to > school and don't want them buying junk food. But the temptation is there > and unless the kid is well disciplined, they just might go ahead and thumb > their nose at their parents and eat a bag of Doritos and wash it down with > a monster. These are the kind of parents that will welcome this decision. > But again, I think that kids should be able to eat whatever they want if > it's offered. I see this as yet another example of lazy parents letting the > school raise their kids. > > It was really nice back in the stone age when I was in school, and all the > school did was educate. They left the raising of the kids to the parents. > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:364988 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
