New Snack Requirements

[moonbeam123]

What is the name of your state (only U.S. law)? Michigan

Our public school system in our town is trying to get the kids to eat healthy. Although I support their efforts I ran into a situation this week and wondered if they were within their rights or violating mine.

They have instituted a policy that AM snack can only be a fruit or veggie. Parents must provide the snack, it does not come from the school. I was under the assumption that this was a guidline and on Friday my son informed me that the snack I had been sending was not enough. We had leftover pizza from the night before and he asked if he could take a piece. I didn't feel that this was a bad choice. When he came home that afternoon he pulled the pizza out of his bag and told me that he was not allowed to eat it as it was not a piece of fruit or veggie as mandated by the policy.

Can they do this?

 

[seniorjudge]

Q: Can they do this?

A: Sounds like they already did.

 

[xylene]

Can they do this?

Write an agrey letter to the teacher and administration.

Use personal invective to denounce them.

Best you can do.

Teach your child that if you want to follow the rules blindly, then you someday can get a government job at school and make 36k you first year.

 

[>Charlotte<]

Send him to school with a piece of veggie pizza and teach him how to argue existentialism.

 

[Silverplum]

Send him to school with a piece of veggie pizza and teach him how to argue existentialism.

FYI: I am now your devotee.

 

[stealth2]

Send him with potato chips - technically a veggie.

But, I have to wonder - are there not more important educational issues for you to focus on than what your kid can or can't bring for snack? Same goes for the school, but really...

 

[>Charlotte<]

FYI: I am now your devotee.

<snort> I love you, too


PS--what Stealth said

 

[HomeGuru]

Write an agrey letter to the teacher and administration.

Use personal invective to denounce them.

Best you can do.

Teach your child that if you want to follow the rules blindly, then you someday can get a government job at school and make 36k you first year.

**A: yes, write a really really agrey letter.

 

[CraigFL]

Hmmmm... the government regulating what you can bring as a snack. I suppose a diabetic needs to be in a coma from an insulin reaction before they can eat what they need to...

 

[Hot Topic]

If you really supported efforts to get your child to eat healthier foods, you wouldn't have allowed him to take pizza to school when you knew that he was only allowed to take a veggie or piece of fruit. I don't believe that you thought it was only a guideline because you had already stated in your post that the school had instituted a policy, and I think you know the difference between a policy and guideline.

If you don't adhere to the policy, you only create problems for your child.

 

[ecmst12]

Apparently the school instituted that rule because they saw that parents need some education about what makes a healthy snack too. Pizza is little more then fat and carbs, hardly healthy. Not a great choice for dinner more then once in a while, either. If they didn't have the rule, this is the type of thing parents would send in all the time and snack time would be doing more harm then good.

 

[xylene]

school's unfunded mandate is pretty lame.

 

[tranquility]

I am the least of the list to complain (especially with my spelling), but shouldn't a SCHOOL district want children to eat HEALTHFULLY as opposed to healthy?

They don't have any classes regarding adjectives v. adverbs any longer?

Info edit:
My understanding is we can eat healthy snacks, where healthy modifies the noun "snack". But we should eat healthfully, where healthfully modifies the verb eat. Put out a letter to the editor of the newspaper and embarrass the school officials. (I'd check it out first as I am truly a grammar idiot.)

 

[mommabearx1]

Send him to school with a piece of veggie pizza and teach him how to argue existentialism.

That sounds like something I would think of doing but never have the nerve to hehehe atleast someone else somewhere thinks liek me

 

[passionatemom10]

Just wanted to throw in my two cents...

I work for a public school in Alabama and we have had a similar policy for three years now. Snacks must promote healthy eating. We cannot have cookies or anything else filled with sugar. Students are allowed potato chips but they have to be the baked kind.

Here is the kicker...snack is a PRIVILEGE not a right. If a student doesn't finish their work for instance instead of eating snack they may have to finish their work. If a student doesn't behave they may have to miss snack.

Not sure if snack there is a privilege or a right but here it is up to the teacher whether a student even gets to participate and it must be healthy or the teacher has the right to refuse the child to eat it.