New Haven, Ct. honors student Michael Sheridan, suspended and removed from his elected class post after being caught buying a bag of Skittles candy from a fellow student in violation of his school’s policy against empty-calorie food, will be reinstated, the school says. (AP/Google). Ohio law blog The Briefcase (Mar. 13) has more, along with a link to this PTO Today article detailing how a federal law mandating school “wellness policies” has increased the pressure on states and local schools to adopt anti-snack measures.
Contraband candy student reinstated
New Haven, Ct. honors student Michael Sheridan, suspended and removed from his elected class post after being caught buying a bag of Skittles candy from a fellow student in violation of his school’s policy against empty-calorie food, will be reinstated, the school says. (AP/Google). Ohio law blog The Briefcase (Mar. 13) has more, along with […]
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you know my mother always told me the junk food police would come for me one day , i always thought she was kidding
This is the stupidest thing that I’ve ever seen from a moron at a school. If my son or daughter came home suspeneded for this, i’d go down and pound the principal (figuratively speaking of course). I’m ao tired of health nannies. Maybe I should send all my bills to nanny so she can pay for my children’s well-being, since she is trying to mandate what you can and can’t do as a parent. Good lord, what a bunch of buffoons we have become.
It’s all about the children.
Schools are teaching our kids to exist in a police state. I guess they are doing them a favor. What a joke. Let’s take a kid who has done it right – honors student, well regarded, and criminalize his sweet tooth. Next thing you know, his parents will have to pay for his carbon footprint – or he should stop breathing!
While specifically about some things done by our latest Surgeon General, it seems that NO politician or bureaucrat actually reads the Federal Government’s own reportage:
http://junkfoodscience.blogspot.com/2008/03/moving-from-skinny-santas-to-skinny.html
`… the country might reasonably expect their Surgeon General to know the government’s own statistics on child weights, as provided by the CDC’s National Center for Health Statistics. These have shown that there have been no significant increases in the numbers of U.S. children considered “overweight” since 1999-2000. There is no epidemic of childhood obesity.
The country might reasonably expect their Surgeon General to have read the Dept. of Health and Human Services’ own Health United States 2007 report, which found no medical evidence of a crisis of childhood obesity or for a critical need to address childhood obesity. Children are not expected to live shorter lives than their parents, but are actually healthier and expected to live longer than at any other time in our history. Babies born in 2004 can expect to live 75.2 years if male and 80.4 if female. Compared to babies born in 1990, boys today are expected to live 3.4 years longer and girls 1.6 years longer.
The country might reasonably expect the Surgeon General to have read the evidence provided by the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, which is charged with issuing careful, evidence-based findings that are supposed to be used by federal government for sound public health programs. After a comprehensive review of 40 years of evidence on childhood obesity screening and interventions, it has found no quality evidence to support or recommend behavioral interventions (diet and activity) for overweight in children and adolescents or that such programs improve health outcomes or physiological measures, such as blood lipids (“cholesterol”), glucose tolerance, blood pressure or physical fitness. Childhood obesity interventions, however, do risk harming children, they warned. The USPSTF concurred with the American Heart Association’s 1996 Scientific Statement for Healthcare professionals in concluding there was no evidence that any interventions to reduce or prevent childhood obesity — no matter how well-intentioned, comprehensive, restrictive, intensive, long in duration, and tackling diet and activity in every possible way — have been effective, especially in any beneficial, sustained way.`