New Snack Requirements

[Draper]

Healthful

If your snack is in good physical condition, it is a healthy snack.

If your snack is actually good for you, i. e. it promotes or helps you maintain your good health, it is a healthful snack.

Alas, "healthful" appears to lack the pith and panache of "healthy" in the minds, hearts, and vocabulary of many.

 

[LeeHarveyBlotto]

Tell them your child will eat whatever snack you see fit to send any pray that they take some sort of action.

 

[Ohiogal]

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.

Actually being able to snack is a right in many situations in schools.