Posted on 06/09/2006 6:05:22 AM PDT by nckerr
PALMYRA, Pa. - Parents who visit their children at lunch would be required to eat school food rather than bring the children fast-food lunches under a proposed wellness policy in the Palmyra Area School District.
That doesn't set well with some parents. Lori Swisher, who has three children at Forge Road Elementary School, agreed the schools don't need soda machines or daily doughnuts, but bristled at "one more government restriction."
Swisher said she occasionally has brought pizza or a sub to her kids at school. "I like to think I serve mostly healthy meals, but when all three have sports, sometimes fast food is the option," she said.
The school board will vote June 15 on the guidelines, which Collene Van Noord, director of curriculum and instruction, said is part of a nationwide effort to combat childhood obesity by teaching healthy eating and exercise habits.
Proposed changes include limiting the selection of a la carte treats in the cafeterias and encouraging healthier treats for classroom holiday parties for Valentine's Day and Halloween. "We're not saying no cupcakes and birthday treats," Van Noord said, but veggies and fruit will be encouraged.
I used to make my daughter's lunch because the school food was so bad. And so unbalanced. It was filled with hot dogs, hamburgers and pizza. To this day, she won't eat a hot dog. It's time to pull kiddies from school if possible.
People may not like government restrictions, but the sad fact is that most people in this world (and this nation) need to be told what to do and when to do it.
Then maybe they should start with the teachers :)
You know what, occassionally my daughter likes to eat McDonald's Chicken McNuggetts. Ain't no liberal piece of shiite telling me what I can or cannot feed my child. Why do you side with the libs on this?
Or are you being sarcastic. Any food in moderation won't hurt you. If people are too dumb too have common sense it is not Government's job to legislate.
My parents even made their own tomato sauce every summer (about 50 mason jars worth) and canned vegetables, made jams and jellies, etc..
I also never had ramen, spaghtetti-o's, frozen chicken patties, or anything like that until I was in high school and ate them at various friends' homes.
Both my parents cook well and would have never dreamed of filling me or my sister with sugar, fat, and preservative laden crap.
And before anyone assumes anything, both my parents also worked. They just put more of a value on decent meals over their own rest and convenience.
What ever happened to parents assuming responsibility for their offspring rather than have the government do their parenting?
It's too difficult. They'd rather have the government tell them what their kids can watch, read, listen to, eat....takes the pressure off of them. Don't want them to hurt themselves by thinking.
Oh, yeah, nothing tyrannical about this. Nothing like telling eveyone how to live their lives and how to raise their children. Why don't we just turn them over to the government from day one, that way they can feed them healthy and brainwash them at the same time for their whole lives, that should do the trick.
I would guess you think you are a conservative, think again. Anyone who applauds the goverment sticking their faces into peoples lives, and who wants to dictate to other people how to raise their kids, is NOT a conservative.
You can't actually believe that a school has more authority over what a child eats than their own parent! It may be the parent's fault if a child is obese, but that does NOT mean the school gets to take over the rearing of that child.
I guess I really need to assume that you forgot the sarcasm tag there.
If not, why do you seem to think that most people in the world need to have someone do their thinking for them? And just who do you propose decides that for us?
The government should not be responsible for our kids, period. The only exception, of course, is in the case of abuse or neglect.
Overweight children will one day grow up and take responsibility for themselves--and they will decide to be fat or not.
I certainly feel sorry for overweight kids---but I don't want that pity to be turned into more government intrusion in our lives.
No Cocoa Puffs? Or Kaboom? How about Quisp? You poor thing. Man, we grew up on all those dye laden sugar filled cereals. Yummy! Actually, I bought a box of Cookie Crunch not too long ago b/c it used to be so yummy and I was grossed out. I don't want to ruin my childhood memories so I'm not even considering buying Cap'n Cruch Berry ever again.
My family sounds remarkedly similar. My mother always cooked dinner every night after working every day. And now that I'm married, my husband does the cooking--every night and because he enjoys it. He also makes his own tomato sauces. Well, we just discovered a canned one that is actually as good as homemade, believe it or not, so we switched. He was just diagnosed with diabetes, so cooking no longer holds much enjoyment for him. But we've been surprised at the poor quality of diabetic cookbooks. We've talked about publishing our own--he thinks I'm just teasing. We never canned things, though. That's really a great way to go! And I was also an teen before I ever went to McD's.
Have you ever seen what is fed to kids in school cafeterias these days? School food is not improvement over fast food, sometimes the same thing; like when Wed. is *Pizza Hut* day.
The schools are trying to deny the parents the right to do what the schools themselves do. Just whose kids are they anyway and who pays the school taxes? They need to focus more on teaching them to read and write and they can't even get that right, so they have no business telling parents how to feed their kids.
Why is it that parents suddenly do not know how to properly feed their children?
Don't get me wrong, we had goodies. My dad makes a killer banana cream pie. The difference is he actually made it from pie crust to filling. No extra crap that you get when buy it pre-made.
I have to tell you, the canning of tomato sauce is not fun. I remember long hot days in the kitchen with my folks and sometimes the grandparents too, churning out jar after jar of the stuff. I was happy for it in the dead of upstate NY winter, but it really, really sucked when we had to make it in August.
If that's your belief, what are you doing on a constitutional conservative website?
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