Perhaps Doug Mann or Barb Lickness can enlighten me since I'm not a parent.
Do Minneapolis public schools allow pop and candy machines in their buildings in order to increase revenues? I've also read about high fat foods like pizza and freedom fries being sold at extra cost in school cafeterias. I hope this isn't happening here in Minneapolis. The idea of selling pop and junk food in schools as a way of raising revenue disturbs me a great deal. What's the point of telling kids not to abuse drugs when we encourage them to consume food and beverage substances that can lead to hyperactivity, obesity and diabetes? While I can't be certain, I strongly suspect that food and beverage substance use abuse among my co-workers is raising all our health insurance rates more than the abuse of alcohol or politically incorrect street drugs. (Speaking of alcohol, I haven't, to my knowledge, had a bad experience with someone high on crack, but I've had lots and lots of bad experiences with people who have had too much alcohol to drink.) Let's get consistent for a change, folks. No adult with a brain and a heart likes to see kids consuming alcohol or street drugs. So why should we be asking our youth to risk their medical health, dental health and mental health with soda pop and junk food in order to provide the football team or cheerleading squad brand new uniforms? Call me an idealist. Call me a communitst. Or, worse yet, call me poltically correct, but it doesn't make sense to me. Please, Doug or Barb, tell me that this doesn't happen in our primary and secondary schools. Peter Schmitz CARAG REMINDERS: 1. Think a member has violated the rules? Email the list manager at [EMAIL PROTECTED] before continuing it on the list. 2. Don't feed the troll! Ignore obvious flame-bait. ________________________________ Minneapolis Issues Forum - A City-focused Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy Post messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe, Un-subscribe, etc. at: http://e-democracy.org/mpls
