My school wasn’t liberal at all. Just disciplinarian.
Rural south, 30+ years ago.
You were there to learn, not snack. Snack at home.
This is the daycare generation that’s accustomed to eating every 2 hours.
“This is the daycare generation that’s accustomed to eating every 2 hours.”
BUMP! And overly-medicated on the same schedule.
I don't remember snacking either. Kindergarten did not exist thank goodness. First grade was in a rural school. Each teacher taught two grades in elementary school through 8th grade. Second grade I was in the city. First grade through third grade was out of class going home at 1:30. We walked home or rode our bikes. Fourth grade I was back at the rural school. We had to be there by 8:15 and were out at 2:15. School year was from Labor Day week - Memorial Day week. The school system stayed out of the family summer. High school was 8:30-3:30 and mandatory Physical Ed for at least three of those years.
Today same rural county has kids riding buses from about 6:30 in the morning to be at school by 8:00. In the afternoon with high school letting out at 3:50 some get home after 5:00pm. All of this due to the insane concept of MEGA-Consolidated schools. Yea I think in this case the kids should be allowed to snack.
Kids weight started shooting up for two main reasons. One was the elimination of physical education and cut recess time in lower grades. The other especially in urban area the communities aren't safe for kids to go outside and be kids because the communities let hoods and perverts take over. 1964 I was 7 years old. I went out the door in the morning by about 9:00am and met up with friends. We came in for lunch and went back out till supper time. A check in with mom every couple of hours unless at someones house or letting her know where sufficed.
Today the education system has taken over the family and they're doing a sorry job at a task they have no business being in. Then there is the kids forget over the summer nonsense. We didn't. Not much anyway. When the teacher has you repeating things over and over like the multiplication tables it stays in your brain and you can function as an adult. Kids today are working after school in stores and they can't even count change back to you except using the register. My stint as a clerk we had to count change from amount due store up to amount handed us by customer. That kept the con artist from ripping the store off because we did not put money into the till until customer accepted the change. It kept everyone honest.
I took basic Math in high school no Algebra etc. But I can work out problems in my head. What good is Algebra if a kid can't tell you off the top of his head what nine times nine is or what 50% off of something is without a calculator? And these fools controlling schools want to control kids food now? They aren't being taught to think. They are being taught to comply and food is part of it.