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perhaps they should require more PE so as the students will actually exercise and put on weight and not worry about PTA bake sales.

Then there is allowing children to run around the schoolyard during recess instead of worrying about potential liability should a child scrape a knee. There is an irony which sees the problems created by excessive litigation and over-regulation being solved by excessive litigation and over-regulation.

the end of the world keeps getting closer. i work with kids from age 6 up at a non school setting. all the school system around have switched to ” healthier” foods for lunch.. the result is a]they take the healthier food because the lunch workers make them then THROW IT OUT because they won’t eat it[tastes like paste was one comment i’ve heard more than once], b]bring their own lunch which risks notes being sent home because school officials don’t approve of what the parents have sent for their own children or c] they just don’t eat,resulting in binging on so called junk food after school. as far as i ‘m concerned this is not only unacceptable but juast plain stupid and a waste of money. next thing you know each of our “approved” meals will be delivered to our homes for each meal ala”the giver”. parents raise th children, not the government, but if we don’t act this is just another step to having children removed a birth to dorms to be raised by properly vetted and trained workers and parents only allowed to visit and pay child support. sorry for the long rant but this just infuriates me and i’ve raised 3 kids, not fat who ate whatever they wanted within reason[no total candy diets!] the differnce being they were active[worked on farm with me,ran track and cross country etc.]

They’re from the government, they’re here to help you.

Eat your bran paste.

“sometimes replace wholesome meals in the lunchroom.”

So some times a kid doesn’t eat a wholesome meal. Is that really a problem – or anything out of the ordinary?

that health advocates say sometimes replace wholesome meals in the lunchroom.

These noxious busybodies will never be happy until everyone – everyone else, anyway – is restricted to a diet of Purina Human Chow.

These noxious busybodies will never be happy until everyone – everyone else, anyway – is restricted to a diet of Purina Human Chow.

Purina Human chow is people!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Federal rules only apply if schools accept federal monies.

A complete ban seems like overkill. At my High School I don’t remember more than at most two bake sales a month. I’d like to know how that would have any real impact on someones diet. Therefore this appear to be yet another case of politicians doing something to appear to be doing something about a problem that really none of their business anyway.

I was a very skinny kid, and am still a very skinny adult, yet I loved sugar when I was a kid. Now the government tells my son he can’t have a cookie with his lunch or buy a doughnut at a bake sale because of the fat kids?

Why not just ban fat kids from buying things at bake sales, don’t punish everyone. This is a good way to instill fat hate into our children when you start taking things away from them just because someone else’s legs grind together when they walk.

“Why not just ban fat kids from buying things at bake sales, don’t punish everyone.”

I’ve a better idea: why not ban the government from interfering with peoples’ lives?

I remember chocolate milk in elementary school (and junior high, and high school.)
Does anyone else?
Shenandoah’s Pride in little tiny cartons.
Do you remember why you drank it?
I do.

The regular milk tasted HORRIBLE.
It wasn’t spoiled, but it tasted like the carton.
Whatever chocolate flavored powder they used at least hid that carton taste.

If they were out of chocolate milk that day, no one bought milk.
Even at the age of five, I know the regular milk was a waste of money.

Much of the “justification” for this is the claim that at some schools such sales were held as much as 9 of 10 school days. How many schools, and where? How is this a FEDERAL mattter?

But sales may go on as long as they do not occur with more than a certain frequency. How often? Congresscritters very carefully sidestepped that, leaving it up to the agency to develop regulations – so if there are complaints, the occupants of elected offices can say that it is not their fault, go take complaints elsewhere.

And sales outside school hours are still OK even if held every day. Just eliminate kids who ride the bus, have doctor or other appointments, or just want to get home before dark.

I remember having a carton of regular milk in first grade. It was spoiled and I would not drink anymore white milk for many years. Choco milk, though was different.

its for the children.

You stem childhood obesity by serving more cheeseburgers, fewer buns. (See investigative science journalist Gary Taubes’ “Good Calories, Bad Calories.”) And you stem the nanny state by telling Michelle Obama to stay the hell out of everybody’s business.

Government’s Long, Chocolate-Covered Fingers…

America’s self-appointed nutritionist-in-chief, Michelle Obama (and never mind that she has zero science background), is championing a bill to limit bake sales and other fundraisers in schools……

“Federal rules only apply if schools accept federal monies.”

Tell that to Belmont Abbey. Gotta include abortion in those health benefits for teachers.

And how much easier is this statute making it for child molesters to entice students by offering them candy?

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