NO OREO ZONE: Kids at School Can't Bring Processed Food

Do you also think it is over the top to not allow children to bring weapons to school?

Schools have a duty to protect student health. That is what they are doing.

Weapons and food are two completely different issues. One cheeseburger a year won't kill you. One bullet could. Besides, weapons are brought for the sole purpose of hurting another individual (whether it be for defense or otherwise - I won't get into that issue here). The purpose of food is to prevent hunger. There's no comparison.

The purpose of food is to prevent hunger

Not in America. I don't believe the 400llb woman or the 200llb teen or the 150llb 10 year old have ever been hungry in their life.

In America, the purpose of food is taste and entertainment. And NO child eats just one hamburger. It would be one thing if parents only sent junk with their kids to school once a month -- but parents pack sh!t for their kids EVERYDAY.

Desperate times call for desperate measures. Americans don't know the meaning of moderation. Everything has to be extreme here: the fun and the consequences.

We're Doomed, I like you and I respect your opinion. I just don't agree with it completely this time. I agree with trying to feed your children healthy food. I don't like other people telling me what I must feed my children.

For me, extremism in either direction is a bad thing. Moderation is the key to a happy life. I am an American and I'm intelligent enough to raise healthy children. Extremism gets my dander up.

I agree with trying to feed your children healthy food. I don't like other people telling me what I must feed my children.

But you are okay with other people telling you what you cannot feed your children (arsenic, alcohol...)? =)

In reality, I think it is strange not to have a cafeteria. I don't think there is anything wrong with the school saying the children cannot bring junk food to school. Parents are welcome to feed their children as much junk as they want at home. No one is stopping them from doing that. But school should be a haven of health and learning.

But the school should provide the healthy options at the school. This school is not the optimal.

.....Yes, let us not feed the children arsenic...... Whether you like my opinion or not.....

.....Yes, let us not feed the children arsenic...... Whether you like my opinion or not.....

hehehe. If you can't have a sense of humor, what can you have?

weRdoomed, I see your point and respect your opinion. I really do. My issue is that if the school wants the children to adhere to this diet, they should be the ones providing the food for them. They shouldn't be demanding that the parents fork over the money for this pricey health food. I know that lots of parents feed their kids crap these days, and I agree that they should feed their kids healthy food. But the school's rules on what is healthy is over-the-top, IMO, and they can make shopping very difficult for even a health-conscious consumer. I don't know anything about the general area this school is in, but do all the families even have regular access to foods that healthy?

Like I said earlier, I've never heard of a school without a cafeteria. If they want to encourage healthy eating, that should be where they do it. They can teach kids how to read food labels and know what's in their food. But they shouldn't be in their parents' kitchens.

There is something odd about this. What the school is requiring matches my own choices. I really believe we need to move our children in this direction. And it is a private school so the parents signed contracts and all like that. But it is odd to expect the parents to provide the food. It would seem so much easier to include this in the tuition and feed the children themselves. Maybe the idea is to educate the families. I applaud an idea like that. But I probably wouldn't send a child to this particular school because I think it's asking the families to step quite a distance out of their comfort zones and I wasn't reading in the article that the school is offering much in the way of support and education. A list doesn't really cut it.

Awesome example of awesome parenting.

Thanks, weRdoomed, What I found is that conferring with my children about nutrition and what is going to keep them healthy and feeling good was a great idea. My son had a period of time where he got a bit nutritionally lazy and his naturopathic student friends took him to task. He lost 30 pounds and stopped doing the "grab something I'm hungry" thing to eating more nutritional meals. He was here in the summer for a visit and I was so happy he was hanging on and back to being conscientious about his food choices. I am not a purest by any means but I believe that 99% of the time feed your body what it needs and 1% eat whatever your brain is craving even if it is Cheetos or a Hostess Cupcake. It won't kill you to give your body a party once in a while just don't party all of the time.

It won't kill you to give your body a party once in a while

Coolest sentence. ever. I want to give my body a party. =)

Great comment, 3rdtime. I know from experience that "forbidding" is not a good route to go in any human activity as it only makes us crave the forbidden.