No soft drinks in school?

[Idea Maker]

Hurley35 wrote:

<quoted text>Isn't the Cleveland show just a comic show on FOX?

yes, it sure is.
but it got me thinking, whether or not schools do that in the real world.

[Idea Maker]

KCGR wrote:

I realize that, but sitting doesn't stimulate the brain either. A little activity to get the body moving and juices flowing, does wonders. I know if I sit at my desk all day, I really get tired, but once I get up and move and walk the office, I get rejuvinated.
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u don't need gym class 4 that.

that's what breaks r 4. just get up and walk around.

[Idea Maker]

i don't think that pop should b SOLD in school. that's ENCOURAGING kids to drink pop. an exception: selling pop at the occasional bake sale.

but i DO think that kids should b allowed 2 bring pop from home and drink it 4 lunch. no, it's not healthy, but that's no excuse 4 forbidding it. pop is not as bad as beer or cigarettes. if kids want 2 drink pop, it's none of the school's business.

no drinking pop in the halls? that makes sense. an exception: if a class has a "pizza-and-pop" party.

no pop on the bus? that's understandable. spilled pop on the bus can b a mess.

no pop ANYTIME during a field trip? that's too strict.

and that's my opinion. at least with high schoolers. as far as younger kids are concerned, i guess maybe that's different.

[Go Blue]

Maybe pop should not be available to minors, at least in schools, after they are 18, they can be considered old enough to hopefully make intelligent decisions....there are enough places off campus for them to get soft drinks....

[Lone Goat]

Ms Angie wrote:

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See, now that's the free market at work! LOL!!

yea one for the teachers was soo beon mad because my Dad thought i was genius for that idea. i didn't get ground or anything..

how did i get judged for my story??? wow some ppl really hate pop..

[Really]

KCGR wrote:

I realize that, but sitting doesn't stimulate the brain either. A little activity to get the body moving and juices flowing, does wonders. I know if I sit at my desk all day, I really get tired, but once I get up and move and walk the office, I get rejuvinated.
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Tell that to the public when it's math or p.e. They say parents can insure kids get their exercise.

[Go Blue]

So it settled then, no pop or sex ed or condoms, right? And we make them run, so they aren't so obese....

[KCGR]

I know what you are saying. I still think Phys Ed should be in school.

Really wrote:

<quoted text>Tell that to the public when it's math or p.e. They say parents can insure kids get their exercise.

[snomad]

No soda? My High School had a designated "smoking area". Rednecks and jocks in the front, heads in the back. I wandered a lot.

[Idea Maker]

KCGR wrote:

I still think Phys Ed should be in school.
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i think it should b optional in high school. up to 8th grade is enough for gym class.

[bobolinq]

why fight the inevitable, i say put honor bars in each classroom and bill the parents for what little johnny or janey consumes.

stock them with fruity coolers in the lower grades, got to get those vitamins. put in the good stuff complete with mixers in 'high' school.

might just keep'em in class? i'm sure the teachers won't mind.

[Businessminded_p lus4]

Go Blue wrote:

Maybe pop should not be available to minors, at least in schools, after they are 18, they can be considered old enough to hopefully make intelligent decisions....there are enough places off campus for them to get soft drinks....

I have a problem with pop in elementary & Middle Schools but by the time a kid is in high school if they haven't learned to control their bad habits, then school probably isn't going to stop them from it. Our High school offers, water, juice, Poweraid & pop but there are only a few limited machines - they aren't all over the school. Having a few machines limits access. Just like anything else, make the healthy choices more convenient. Then you're not mandating healthy choices, you're making it easier. Make healthier choices less expensive and easier to get to. The primary reasons I have no problem with pop in school is:

1. It generates funds for the school. Their are LOTS of after-school activities and I'd rather have the money go to schools than to the corner gas station. My kid is often at the school several hours either before or after school. He drinks Poweraid, water, milk, chocolate milk and an occassional pop. I have no problem with that.

2. This is another parenting issue. Field trips limit choices of what you can pack. Most of the time, our school field trips require you have ONLY 'throw away' lunches so that teachers don't have to keep tabs on lunch bags etc. I don't like the sippy straw juices out there because Dentists profess that they are hard on teeth. 99% of the time my kids have milk for lunch and water or juice for field trips -but there have been a few occassions I've thrown in a Sprite for ease and I see NOTHING WRONG WITH IT. Spilled pop is no harder to clean up than spilled juice.

3. You can't mandate 'health'. I have huge issues with the school/gov't playing parent. If you ban pop because it's unhealthy than where do you draw that line? They offer unhealthy food sometimes!!!! Schools have problems with school lunches being 'healthy' and then not having kids buy them but I DO think school lunches need to continue to strive to be a healthy offering. Here's one for ya....my son had ice cream at 10:30 in the morning (yes, first lunch is at 10:30 am!) two days in a row for his 'lunch'. And while you all sit back and get appauled for that 'poor choice' and judge me for knowing it bla blah blah - I'll add that he had severe pain from his orthodontics and couldn't eat anything else. So I come back to -my kids health is MY BUSINESS. It's MY problem to deal with over or mis-use of any food or drink. It's the schools problem to EDUCATE my child.

4. By High School we should be focused on getting them to make good/better decisions, not mandating. You aren't going to stop the kid from drinking pop any more than smoking a cigarette but you can't make it harder to do. HS students need a graduating opportunity to be responsible and make good decisions. Why not offer the healthy drinks at cost and make profit on the unhealthy choices?