Posted on 03/12/2008 5:49:22 AM PDT by Puppage
Yikes!
That “wellness” policy will just push the kindergarteners back to eating paste and boogers.
The only way to ‘teach’ schools, is to remove the $$$$$ from them.
I can't speak for other states or other times, but in Texas back in the 1980s, the amount of funding each school district received from the feds was based on Average Daily Attendance. The Average Daily Attendance was computed over ten days in the school year ... one week in Fall, and one week in Spring.
The upshot of this was that a relatively small number of kids suddenly getting “sick” during two weeks of the school year could have a significant effect on the school district's finances.
Well, peanut butter is probably banned because someone might be allergic, so yeah your PB&J might be banned too. Like I said, my kids don’t go there so I don’t know the specifics of the policy. I think it’s just no cookies, candy, cupcakes, etc.
The year that they implemented the policy, one of the PTA moms didn’t know about the ban and made hundreds of cupcakes to hand out on the first day of school. They made her set up her table off the school property to give them away. I told her she should have wrapped them in condoms and then she’d have been fine.
My son did that, too. They told him to stop.
“Spokeswoman Catherine Sullivan-DeCarlo says there are no candy sales allowed in schools, period.”
Being from Ct and knowing New Haven schools, I bet the kid thought he was buying x. I’m sure its readily available at school.
“You laugh, but at the public elementary school in my neighborhood, they search kids’ lunchboxes for contraband sweets (all sweets are banned). And my neighbors wonder why my kids will be going to private school...”
Holy crap. Where do you live? My Daughter’s 3rd Grade Teacher bought a ton of Girl Scout cookies from us this year. I had to haul in 4 boxes into her classroom for my daughter. Not to mention the 6 other teachers who also ordered cookies. Good to see that this no candy stupidity has not effected Ohio (yet?).
I have heard of teachers and other school officials catching students “in the act” and never heard of students being punished in any way for that- possibly a short lecture but they don’t even tell the parents.
All the changes in schools has me baffled- in my day I can only imagine if I had been caught haveing sex at school- I know for a fact my parents would have been notified- but we were allowed candy, over the counter medicines and many things that make schools crazy these days. In my day it would have been hard to find a single boy not carrying a pocket knife and many had firearms in their vehicles; as did many teachers. We also managed to get a decent education in spite of all the teaching methods used then being wrong according to today’s experts.
I have heard of teachers and other school officials catching students “in the act” and never heard of students being punished in any way for that- possibly a short lecture but they don’t even tell the parents.
That pretty much comports with the news today that 1/4th of teenage girls have STD’s. Nothing about the boys but you could only imagine that the rate would be higher among them.
We believe that it is crucial in any academic environment for a caring school to develop a strong safety net for students who are academically motivated and require special attention. Through a carefully designed inclusion program, with appropriate student supports, we can design a diverse learning environment that is academically rigorous without being elitist.
“Contraband”? Is this a school, or a state prison?
It would be funny if they received thousands of candy bars through the mail.
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