Our wonderful governor, Rod Blowholeavich, has urged the state board of education to ban junk food from schools. They have followed his advice and have now made it to where elementary school kids cannot get any junk food from vending machines or soda during school hours. They have cited the obesity statistics for children and the increasing epidemic of diabetes in our youth. There was an article in our local paper about it. I read the whole thing and just laughed and laughed at the end of it. They have left them in the high schools because removing them from high schools would have a "crippling effect on revenue". Hypocrisy, anyone? To me this just screams "We care about you as long as it doesn't hurt our bottom line." I agree that our kids need to eat less junk food, but to do it this way is just ludicrous. Teach them the right way to eat. Show them through example. Don't complain about the amount of students that are overweight, when their teachers have the same problem and have access to the junk food themselves. Do as I say, not as I do. Such a joke. Score another one for the governor.
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We don't want kids to be fat and hyper , once their teens it's O.K.
I have read in the past where schools are taking bids from coke / pepsi to get their machines into school...they can name their debate teams ' the coke heads ' ?
That is ridiclous to leave them in the high school. That really says- the middle school kids do not have the money, so yeah we will remove them, but we know high schoolers have the money!
Here they have reached an agreement to add water and fruit juices in the machines and remove the sodas!
