“Milk and lunch money was collected right after the morning bell and attendance and one lucky kid got to take the yellow envelope down to the office. They got a hall pass and everything. :0)”
Oh how you are bringing back memories! Yes, I remember the daily collection and the yellow envelope!! If you brought your lunch, then you could purchase milk in the cafeteria for 3 cents. I remember having pennies rolled up in aluminum foil for this purpose. What happened in the intervening years? Why did the food get more processed? When my children went to school, they did not have anything like I had 30 odd years before, and I am sure the school taxes are now quadruple the amount. You know, all this talk today about obesity in children gets me to thinking. I have friends in the Old Order Mennonite community in PA. Several times I have visited the one room schoolhouses they still use. All the children bring lunch from home daily which consists of a sandwich, fruit and maybe pretzels. The kids usually drink water. After morning lessons, they go outside for 15 minutes of play time. After lunch, they go outside for 30 minutes of play/exercise which usually consists of a softball game that the teacher participates in as well. After some afternoon lessons, the kids go out for another 10-15 minute recess before finishing lessons for the day. Then these children go home to farms or rural homes at least, where they do chores. They are always in motion, and are usually never obese. This is so simple; if the schools are so worried about the children, why not implement some of these old fashioned things??
They will. The entire country is sick and tired of the social experimenting that's been going on since the late 60s and now has been proven beyond doubt to simply be the failed socialism of the early 1900s wrapped up and sold as "science." But it wasn't science. It was a costly fraud that hurt millions of people.
All marxism (on which socialism/communism is based and which started in the mid 1800s) ends up in fine-sounding poison for any society that adopts it.
Get Constitutional Conservatism back and common-sense solutions (good food, competition and exercise, anyone?) will find their way back into the curriculum again.