Our issue is there is no regulation at the school. So we have to have an account in case our daughter or wife forgets to put the lunch in her bag she needs to eat and gets what the school offers. She has an issue with the red dye problems but there is no one there to tell her no and sometimes although she knows its wrong she will eat it anyways and be wired when she gets home. Sometimes this effects school work because she eats so early (School starts at 845 and she is first class to eat at 1050). If we make chocolate and she takes it in her lunch great, but its like when I went to school and could just buy ice cream for the day. They didn't check our lunch cards as long as we had cash. I don't need my kids doing that.
-----Original Message----- From: Bruce Sorge [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, June 28, 2013 8:07 AM To: cf-community Subject: What do you all think of this? 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:364992 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
