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Originally Posted by WilderPegasus
Snack time is for snacks, not for teachers to dictate what kids eat. But nice of you to make silly assumptions like she's a fatty. Seems like you have some unresolved anger issues about mothers. Was your mother a fatty and you're trying to take your anger out on her for making you a fatty on this woman?
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I don't get the hostility. My argument is that today's children are fat, and that a time for eating vegetables is a good idea. This woman opened herself up to criticism when she said should would not partake in the "nutritional agenda" as though it was some crazy idea that allowing a kid to eat an apple during the day was some diabolical scheme by this teacher.
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Originally Posted by WilderPegasus
They are not encouraging kids to do anything. They are forcing kids to eat what they dictate what they think they should eat.
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They aren't forcing kids to eat anything. We have proof of this as apparently numerous times the child came home with uneaten apples and oranges.
What they are doing is providing an opportunity to eat a healthy snack, in the form of fruits or vegetables, at a certain time of the day. No one has to eat at that time and they are welcome to eat their lunch, however unhealthy it may be, at lunch time.
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Originally Posted by WilderPegasus
They are teachers, not parents. They have no right to dictate what kids do or do not eat as long as what they eat does not have the potential to hurt other kids. They can teach what foods are healthy and which foods are not but those kids might be a little young to be learning those lessons.
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They are teachers, not parents. But they do have a right to decide what will be learned, they have a choice what exercise the children will do in gym class. Of course based on the syllabus, but why shouldn't they dictate a 5 minute time in the schedule to eat a vegetable or fruit when so many studies show how poorly we as a society are doing on this?
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Originally Posted by WilderPegasus
What the hell does gym have to do with this? Or drinking pop in class? Those are irrelevant to this situation.
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Uh, eating a chocolate bar instead of a fruit should be fine, but drinking a pop instead of water is irrelevant? A can of coke has 150 calories, drinking that instead of water is pretty much the equivalent of the difference between eating an apple (50 calories) and a slice of banana bread (200). I understand that there's other factors at play, namely spilling, but nearly all teachers don't allow coke in class, yet at junior high it's perfectly acceptable to drink water during class. Ergo, the teachers are dictating what can be drank, which is the same as what can be ate. I fail to see a difference.
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Originally Posted by WilderPegasus
Who do you think should decide what kids eat? Teachers or parents? What makes teachers qualified to determine what is an appropriate diet for a 6 year old?
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I mean, parents should even though we have enough statistics to know that they do a piss poor job at it. The CDC says 93% of children do not get enough vegetables, so maybe we shouldn't actually allow the parents but fine whatever. Let the parents pack the lunch, if they want, and let the student eat that lunch...at lunch.
During the special snack time to eat a fruit or vegetable, allow only fruits or vegetables to be eaten in class. I really don't see an issue. If you don't want your kid eating fruits or vegetables, or they refuse, wait until lunch time like everyone else had to do for years to eat lunch. Encouraging the consumption of vegetables and fruit should not be vilified, because right now it's predicted that 70% of these six year olds will be overweight by the time they are 40, something needs to give and it's clearly not happening at home.