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Are public schools going too far?

I live in California, and my kids go to public elementary school. This year, they have come up with this new nutrition plan, I refer to as the "Snack Nazies". I am not aloud to send pudding, chips, capri sun, or anything that is not light, fat free or sugar free in their lunch. However, the cafeteria still bakes cookies and sells them for .50c and serves pizza, hot dogs, and very fatty tortilla chips. Not to mention chocolate milk and french fries..... How is that right? They have even taken homemade peanut butter cookies away from my boys at lunch..... how can they do that????? Have they gone too far?

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It doesn't sound like the worst policy--except for the fact that they then provide the kids with all the "forbiddens." Just one more reason I'm glad I don't live in California.
Yes, they are definately going much too far.

I think that they are trying to control the obesity rate in the United States. But it is out of prepotion to sell the same things in the lunch room that they take away from your sons.

Maybe your children can buy the dessert in the cafeteria, but still pack the main course from home.

I say, go to the school board and demand some answers!
Yikes. That is going too far.

I do whatever I can to provide my kids (who have food allergies and can't eat cafeteria food) with healthy, well balanced, and even interesting meals. My sons even get salads in their lunch boxes (yes, my boys eat salad, odd as that is). But once in a while, I like to give them a little treat...today they each got two Hershey's kisses in their lunch as my Valentine to them.

I can understand if there was NOTHING healthy in the lunch box, but...like I said, that's going too far.
Yes, that's ridiculous. I've always thought that the main problem with children's nutrition is that school cafeteria food isn't good, so the kids aren't going to buy a plate lunch, they're going to buy cookies or chips or whatever at school. And I bet the school makes a lot of money on those cookies, too!

You stand up for yourself. Talk to other parents from your kids classes, get involved with the PTA or whatever, and see if you can change this.
i would agree that they have gone too far. yes, it's not right for them to take away goodies/snacks from your sons, that you have sent to school with them. then in turn, they continue to sell or give them things that are just the same. if anything, it seems as if they would rather profit money, from kids purchasing things from them. instead of having their families send goodies with them to school. if you are friends with other families, who send kids to the same school. i would suggest getting a group of you together and go to the PTA meetings. organize something, to present to the school about these concerns. if any of you have the time, you could also arrange a meeting, on your own, to talk to the school officials. then see how things go from there. if should be allowed that families send goodies/snacks to school with their kids. with out it being taken away from them.
deyve gone too far for sure in evry skools its lik dat in france dey forbid all stuff iwth sugar but at lunch its fries evry day !!!
I believe they have gone to far. I would go to someone higher up within the school, If that does not help seek a lawyers advice. I see their point but, how can they take away food you have given them.
Its a bad solution to a very bad problem. Exercise is the key!
You should do something about it. Get a bunch of other parents together and go to the school board with your thoughts and give them some different ideas because for them to take away the junk food kids bring from home then turn around and sell it back to them is just stupid. Totally defeats the whole purpose they are trying to make.
yeah, if they're not following their own nutrition plan, then it's definitely hypocritical. I would raise a stink. Why can they buy a cookie from them, but not eat the ones you send?
yes, they have gone too far. preventing kids to bring things like this from home but sells them at school sends kids the wrong message. if they do not allow them from home they should not allow it to be sold from school either. this part sounds like a money making deal for them to me. also another thing that troubles me about this is what about kids there that cannot afford lunch and have to pack and they do not like the nutritious things that have to be put into the lunch. that could result in those kids not even eating lunch and that is absolutely uncalled for. express your concerns with the school board and try to get other parents to rally around you. you may be able to stop this from continuing. kids need to have lunch at school even if it may not be the healthiest lunch, something is better than nothing. hope this helps. good luck.
Wow!! My daughter starts kindergarten next year and I sometimes wonder if I shouldn't just homeschool her. I think the school is very wrong to do that. Especially when they are selling even worse things than peanutbutter cookies! I would definitely take it to the school board. Get some other parents on board with you and make it a group effort.
YES THEY ARE going wwwwwaaaaaaayyyyy to far
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The school doesn't actually have any legal right to dictate what you put in your kids' lunch. It's just a bureaucratic bluff. Why do you tolerate it? Schools don't have much of any authority at all, but parents are such sheep that they put up with anything the school says. Go to the school and scream bloody murder at them (I mean it, really scream if you have to) and they'll stop.
There not trying to make your kids healthier, they are just trying to have you spend money for them to buy lunch at school. Contact the principal, and have a discussion with him/her about it.
I live in California too. We have the same sort of lunches as you described. But we don't have that policy about capri sun ect. I can understand about the peanut butter cookies. Some kids [like mine] are very allergic to peanut and being near them can set it off. I know, it's not fair and I have taken on a lot of slack because my son is allergic. It's not his fault but people have even told me my son shouldn't get to go to school with the other kids because of this. Some kids allergies are so bad that just being in the same room can kill them or at least set off an attack. Last year some kid put a peanut butter sandwich in my son's face. He missed two days of school because of that. He had a temp of 104 and a vicious rash all over his body. The boy that did it knew about the allergy. But he did it anyway. I guess we do run the risk of it because I do send him to school. But on that day he could have died. I was set to come in that day and help in the class and saw my son with the rash all over him and his fever. I had to give him the epiphen shot and go to the hospital.

But as far as the rest, I think if YOU can't do it then the school shouldn't either. We're not allowed to have bake sales or bring in homemade treats for Birthdays or other parties because last year a bunch of kids got sick from someone using out dated food while making cookies for a bake sale. But we are allowed to bring prepared food AND capri sun's for parties. We've done it every year!
What part of California do you live in? I live near San Francisco and so far we haven't had any "snack nazis" here yet. Although I do give fresh fruit as a snack, I also send a Capri Sun as her drink. I can imagine it must be tough on you to go through this though. I am all for healthy snacks, but it is your choice what snack you send with your child. I feel for you.
Oh yeah, the public system has no other way of making it's money. Instead of helping the children succeed to get grants from the government it's just easier selling them fatty foods.
TOO FAR!!!!!
Yes, that's ridiculous. I'm thrilled my boys are in private school where things like that dont happen... and they're physically fit! That's a joke, you should complain
I live in Pennsylvania and my daughter is in kindergarten and a couple days a month she has to bring in snacks for her class. Well now she had to take in things that are "healthy". I can understand it in a way but they think that if a child has one cookie that they are going to become overweight or something. It's not there place to tell us or our children what they can and cannot eat. If we want to give our children "unhealthy" snacks we should be aloud.
That's how it is in schools here in Ohio which is where I live. Only here children can't have soft drinks, cookies, brownies, junk food, anything with sugar because it's "unhealthy". At my school that I graduated from the teachers are even going to check packed lunches to make sure there's no junk food in the lunch bags. And in the elementrary school that my little 7 year old sister goes to there isn't going to be any more junk food for birthday parties. In fact the school is banning all types of parties. They're only allowed to have 1 party a month and they can't bring in anything including fruit juice that isn't 100% natural. Which means no juice with sugar in it. Yes I do think schools are going way too far on healthy eating. I think schools are obsessed with children being healthy that they've forgotten what it's like to be a kid. And everyone knows school luches suck.