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Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch
The first paragraph is pretty bogus, it basically says that the school decides on the students menu choice and not the parents. Last time I checked the school was there to educate and not act like the parents. If this was an issue where the kid was showing up bruised and abused then you'd have something, but isn't this a case of the state (in this case the school) butting in where it doesn't belong. Give the kids a healthy eating cafeteria where they can buy food, that's where it should end.
The second paragraph is questionable to me as well. Oh we can't deal with the parents (they don't want to do this our way) so we'll throw the students out. If I'm reading that right, its pretty ridiculous and goes against the unquestioned right to education.
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I think that there is a line where teaching your kids to eat unhealthy is a form of neglect. I don't want to discuss where that line might be exactly, and I assume that most people who have an issue with this story have a problem with where that line is drawn in this case. The school is in charge of keeping my kid safe when I leave them there, and if they think I am neglecting that kid, they better be doing something about it.
If someone is coming to school with insufficient or inappropriate food, then something else is going on, and the parents need to be educated. Providing a cafeteria is not going to stop that. Some parents, not necessarily intentionally, have no idea what kids should eat or have no idea that they should be providing food for the kids to take. As a foster parent, I could tell you some terrible stories about stuff like this, if I was allowed. You could use your imagination though, and think of the worst thing your kid could bring to school that actually qualified as food, and the truth is actually worse than that.
As for your second point, if kids won't follow the rules, and parents won't make them follow the rules, what should be done? You can't run a system like the schools where rules are broken with no consequences.
I get that the parents are trying to change the rules, or more likely, where that line is drawn. I don't disagree with them trying, but I am guessing that given the schools response, they went about it the wrong way.