[muawiyah]

The schools here were catering to a minority when it came to lactose intolerance. The majority were the ones whose kids needed acidophilous. (This is neither an Hindu nor Western European dominated area).

BTW, sending your kids to school with lactase pills would probably get them expelled since the "zero tolerance" standards simply prohibit such a thing. Remember, public school teachers are too stupid to tell the difference between the narcotics they used in college and aspirins!

BTW, I know full well that the "whole" in "whole milk" does not refer to nutritiousness but rather to the fat content. Still, it has propaganda value and is used by the National Dairy Council to convince school boards to deny acidophilous milk to school children.

[shhrubbery!]

Drink skim milk, it's better.

Not necessarily. Calcium (important for kids' growing bones) is not well absorbed without the fat.

And recently there was a Finnish study that showed a correlation between drinking whole milk, and resistance to asthma.

Besides, skim milk tastes like dishwater. My kids won't drink it -- and neither will I.

BTW, sending your kids to school with lactase pills would probably get them expelled since the "zero tolerance" standards simply prohibit such a thing.

If you informed school officials you were sending harmless lactase tablets, and those officials continued to act like idiots, then what are you doing sending your kids to be [mis]educated at such a pathetic school, anyway?

[Russian Sage]

The schools here were catering...

Sigh... What do you expect when you're being fed by the government and do menu planning by commitee. Someone is going to be unhappy. It might as well be you.