Teaching fads also change, sometimes with poor results, that's where you hope the syllabus and technique taught is being created by qualified individuals. I don't see why we can't extend that to a nutritional program. A qualified province wide nutritional program developed by experts, dietitian and doctors. We allow school and teachers incredibly control to shape their minds, but body is a no go?
Yes, especially for healthy adults who understand and practice that. Those healthy adults also only make up maybe 40% of our population, the rest are overweight or worse.
Creating an environment in school that teaches and even "forces" the children these moderations would have what downside exactly? Except the occasional insult of being called a "nanny state" what harm would it actually do?
While true, shouldn't that be the absolute best reason to set this up at school? Creating a program, lunches, policies, for children independent of class at school? I'd much rather be subsidizing fruits and vegetables than insulin and chemo with my tax money. They might not eat 'healthy' 100% of the time, but 50% of the time is still far better.
First part, while true, what's the worst inconvenience from going to the extreme and havign lunches provided by school to these engaged parents?
Also, again, these engaged parents are making up 30% of the population.
Current trends suggest that 70% of primary school students will be overweight by the time they are forty.
http://www.pressreader.com/canada/ed...83042640315336
A couple schools ban junk food, start serving healthy foods only. They pushed the nutritional agenda to it's limit, and the diabolical principals plan worked. 72 per cent lower obesity rates for the students at those schools. Is our pride, the "I know best for my children," that important that we're going to fight against a program that has had such success? Meh, doesn't sound much different than the anti-vaccinations parents now, despite looking at studies and actual incredible positive results, "what gets put in my children is my choice, despite the incredible downside!"
Look, if there's outrage that a school has a simple snack time where students are allowed to eat fruit and vegetables, and only eat fruits and vegetables, while having zero impact on the lunches they can bring and eat, it also shouldn't be that surprising that 60% of that province is fat.
Also what happens when this kid gets to sex-ed class and they do the putting a condom on a banana thing? This kid will be there with his banana bread because his mother refuses to let him touch fruits. Practically asking for him to get an STI, I bet no one thought of that!