I’m going to take a partial contrarian view.
In 2003, the school decided not to offer candy for sale. This empowers PARENTS who don’t want their children eating too much candy. If parent wanted to allow their kids to have candy during school, the kids WERE allowed to bring their own candy to school.
However, they weren’t allowed to SELL the candy to other students, since that would again take away the power of parents to control what the kids ate.
THE ACTIONS they took against the child were excessive, but I don’t think the POLICY is inappropriate. School exists to teach children, not to provide them a candy store.
Of course, when I went to school we didn’t have ANY vending machines, and the cafeteria served only cafeteria food, not candy and snacks and sodas.
Vending machines? Cafeteria? Sodas?
When I went to school, each kid brought their own packed lunch from home. At lunchtime you purchased a small container of white milk, served at the temperature of the outside air. If you forgot your lunch, sister would make you a peanut butter sandwich and send you home with a note at the end of the day saying that if it hapened again you'd be shot.
Or worse, that she would have to tell father.
I understand your point. However, is this same school system teaching ‘sex ed’ which teaches the kids all about a variety of perversions, while not wanting to allow make it an ‘opt in’ program? If so, then they are being complete hypocrites.
Same, but we DID have a designated smoking area in high school (in junior high we still had to hide under the bleachers).
My son is 14, in middle school. I don’t try to control what he eats, beyond making sure he eats a balanced diet at home.
For heaven’s sake. These are not elementary school kids, these kids will be ADULTS in four years. When do they get to start making SOME of their own decisions?
My what a good little authoritarian statist you are.....
Along with “wellness” be careful of someone who uses “empowers”
And let’s not even start on “disenfranchised”!!