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This thread is hilarious, infringing on your parental rights? Are you kidding me? No one is saying your kid is not allowed to drink soda, they are saying your kids are not allowed to drink soda AT SCHOOL. Just like no one says you aren't allowed to let your kids curse like truckers they just can't do it AT SCHOOL. You can let little susie can dress like a wh*re if you want but not AT SCHOOL. Your 5 yo can watch R rated movies if you want them to but not AT SCHOOL. You can let your high schooler smoke a pack a day if you feel like it but they can't do it AT SCHOOL. It's called RULES, they are there to protect your children and the children of all the other parents. Drinking soda has no inherent benefits and plenty of detrimental side effects they are not denying your child of something that is in anyway helpful to them and their development. You want to load your kid up on soda go for it, when they are under your supervision if you don't like the rules at your school remove your children and place them somewhere else that is your parental right.
This thread is hilarious, infringing on your parental rights? Are you kidding me? No one is saying your kid is not allowed to drink soda, they are saying your kids are not allowed to drink soda AT SCHOOL. Just like no one says you aren't allowed to let your kids curse like truckers they just can't do it AT SCHOOL. You can let little susie can dress like a wh*re if you want but not AT SCHOOL. Your 5 yo can watch R rated movies if you want them to but not AT SCHOOL. You can let your high schooler smoke a pack a day if you feel like it but they can't do it AT SCHOOL. It's called RULES, they are there to protect your children and the children of all the other parents. Drinking soda has no inherent benefits and plenty of detrimental side effects they are not denying your child of something that is in anyway helpful to them and their development. You want to load your kid up on soda go for it, when they are under your supervision if you don't like the rules at your school remove your children and place them somewhere else that is your parental right.
There are so many IGNORANT posts here regarding peanut allergies.
Please people, get over it. I know of people who lost loved ones from peanut allergies, truly tragic.
So many of you get on here with flippant attitudes because junior can't have a peanut butter sandwich at school. I am sure that it would be fine if junior bathed in peanut butter after school, but at school have some consideration and follow the rules.
other than the smaller serving size, the Sunny-Delight is actually WORSE per oz..than the Coke...and I've seen plenty of older kids who bring 2 Sunny Delights/Capri Suns/Koolaid jammers...which pretty much defeats any benefit of smaller serving sizes....
Cutting out soda is not going to cure the obesity problem. Parents need to understand that just because something has the word "fruit" or "juice" on the package somewhere or the ads show slender athletic children drinking it, or it is the same color as fruit juice does not make it healthy. That along with not being able to purchase unhealthy foods at school, and not cutting out Physical Education will help. Banning soda just makes people who don't send their kids with soda anyway feel better.
my comments in bold.....where is the line drawn then? It seems to be randomly applied to soda.... If we are only to feed our kids healthy foods at school, each lunch would have to be inspected individually to meet the criteria. That is not the case so how can we single out one product in the spectrum of crappy food people feed their kids?
Hopefullly they just easing into it while this entire country wakes up and realizes that our diets are killing us. Obesity is a huge problem in this country and cr*p like soda and twinkies have no place in a childs lunch box or worse yet a friggin' lunchables (barf).
Today it's soda tomorrow (hopefully) its over processed "food product", sugary drinks and things that have more fat than a stick of butter! Children are in school to learn, that learning should include nutrition and healthy diets. The cafeteria is the hands-on lab for those lessons.
Hopefullly they just easing into it while this entire country wakes up and realizes that our diets are killing us. Obesity is a huge problem in this country and cr*p like soda and twinkies have no place in a childs lunch box or worse yet a friggin' lunchables (barf).
Today it's soda tomorrow (hopefully) its over processed "food product", sugary drinks and things that have more fat than a stick of butter! Children are in school to learn, that learning should include nutrition and healthy diets. The cafeteria is the hands-on lab for those lessons.
The problem is, then you'd have to individually inspect every single kid's lunch to determine if it's healthy. What if little Emily has a healthy lunch, but has a fun sized chocolate bar as a treat in the lunchbox? What do you do then, tell her she can't eat it?
MM: Take another look at it and see if they are still putting OIL in Sunny Delight. Years ago, whe it was first made, they did. I bought one bottle, read the label, and quit buying it.
"They" put all kinds of junk in bottled drinks. (I have been a label reader for many, many moons.)
Hopefullly they just easing into it while this entire country wakes up and realizes that our diets are killing us. Obesity is a huge problem in this country and cr*p like soda and twinkies have no place in a childs lunch box or worse yet a friggin' lunchables (barf).
Today it's soda tomorrow (hopefully) its over processed "food product", sugary drinks and things that have more fat than a stick of butter! Children are in school to learn, that learning should include nutrition and healthy diets. The cafeteria is the hands-on lab for those lessons.
What about a homemade oatmeal cookie? Will that be on the "approved" list? A sugar cookie with icing? Wonder if it isn't homemade, but (gasp) storebought? No desserts for you! Tofu and spinach on whole grain, homemade bread, with organic carrot sticks and some mineral enriched water ( no flouride though!)....
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If we are only to feed our kids healthy foods at school, each lunch would have to be inspected individually to meet the criteria. That is not the case so how can we single out one product in the spectrum of crappy food people feed their kids?
