Posted on 09/15/2014 12:13:56 PM PDT by markomalley
Chocolate brownies are now banned in Vermont schools. They, along with all other high-sugar desserts, will now be replaced with “treats” such as fruit kebabs and gluten-free paleo lemon bars. This stems from the new Smart-Snacks-in-Schools program that is in effect for public schools.
Deborah Quackenbush, education division director at the Agency of Education said that Smart Snack standards restrict items sold on a la carte lunch menus, vending machines, and fundraising events between midnight and half an hour after school. The standard does not apply to off-campus events or concessions at school events, such as sporting events, concerts, and plays.
“These changes are really supporting the types of diets that we as a country should be following to have a healthy diet and lifestyle,” said Laurie Colgan, child nutrition program director at the Agency of Education, in an interview with the Vermont Watchdog.
This healthy lifestyle has already been instated within the school.
“The new school lunch pattern has low-fat, leaner proteins, greater variety, and larger portions of fruit and vegetables,” Colgan said. Additionally, “the grains have to be 100 percent whole-grain rich.”
Colgan said this does not have to mean an end for fundraising. Rather, she is encouraging schools to turn fundraising away from schools, and focus on non-food items such as flower bulbs, cards, and wrapping paper.
(Excerpt) Read more at boston.com ...
If I were in a Vermont school, I’d become a Chocolate Dealer soooooo fast!
This has got to stop!
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3204257/posts
Enterprising high school student suspended for selling Pepsi out of his locker.
But chocolate-covered kale is not OK.
Food Overlord FLOTUS Chewbacca: Haunted by the deep, dark, dread that someone, somewhere, may be enjoying himself.
Deborah Quackenbush, education division director at the Agency of Education said that Smart Snack standards restrict items sold on a la carte lunch menus, vending machines, and fundraising events between midnight and half an hour after school. The standard does not apply to off-campus events or concessions at school events, such as sporting events, concerts, and plays.
Wasn’t Groucho Marx Mayor Quackenbush in one of their movies ?
Seems appropriate ......................
What’s wrong with chocolate? It’s an antioxidant, blah, blah, blah...
The whole goal of the left is to make life grim and miserable.
He’s a Brit, but I’d be so proud if he were my son!
“Deborah Quackenbush, education division director at the Agency of Education said that Smart Snack standards restrict items sold on a la carte lunch menus, vending machines, and fundraising events between midnight and half an hour after school. The standard does not apply to off-campus events or concessions at school events, such as sporting events, concerts, and plays.”
What gives Deborah Lickinbush the right to tell anyone what they can eat?
This is going to backfire so much. You take things away from people and they find a way to eat it and in a lot of cases more then what would be allowed. There is going to be a big increase in sales for junk food in the next 18 years when kids become adults and go hog wild. We are still human after all. I don’t know why Democrats want to consider people robots.
Our final offer: Obama for Harper, and we’ll throw in Vermont.
Yet.
Notice a pattern here?
Deborah Quackenbush, education division director at the Agency of Education said that Smart Snack standards restrict items sold on a la carte lunch menus, vending machines, and fundraising events between midnight and half an hour after school.
Laurie Colgan, child nutrition program director at the Agency of Education, in an interview with the Vermont Watchdog.
Shelly Mathias, principal of Edmunds Elementary School in Burlington believes that Vermont schools are ahead of the game. “We haven’t had desserts in our schools. This is my fourth year, and I’ve never seen a dessert served in the school. The kids like kale here, and they eat broccoli,”
There are dumb fat dykes running everything.
Stuff like this is how Rebellions get started and I say we’re way past do.
Quackenbush eh? Any relation to “Hugo Z. Quackenbush’’.?
Burlington is ground zero for nut cases.
They make Cambridge look like the deep south.
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