Milk and cookies

[VNV Nation]

I read that New York schools may ban junk food in schools -- candy, soda, etc.

One BoE member said something about how they won't ban milk and cookies, because it's a "hallowed tradition."

In my school days, we did not get milk and cookies after kindergarten. Wouldn't it be unfair to the older kids to allow the little brats milk and cookies? Somehow I can't see 17-year-olds having nap time (where you have to shut or lose out on M&C) and all that.

Milk and Cookies for all, I say!

In other news: Does timeout in the corner cause emotional scars?

Discuss.

[poorme]

you mean outlawing students bringing that stuff to school or not serving/selling it at school?

[VNV Nation]

i think they were specifically referring to getting rid of soda vendors and stuff. when i went to school they would confiscate candy from you, the fascist pigs.

and cigarettes, too.

do you think it's ok for schools to discipline you for having cigarettes (not smoking them) if you're 18?

[poorme]

Originally posted by VNV Nation
i think they were specifically referring to getting rid of soda vendors and stuff. when i went to school they would confiscate candy from you, the fascist pigs.

and cigarettes, too.

do you think it's ok for schools to discipline you for having cigarettes (not smoking them) if you're 18?

what kind of school did you go to? we could eat anything we wanted. couldn't smoke though. the more they try to banish cigarettes, the more interested kids are in them.

school food is foul AND unhealthy.

[tortured angel]

Originally posted by VNV Nation
i think they were specifically referring to getting rid of soda vendors and stuff. when i went to school they would confiscate candy from you, the fascist pigs.

and cigarettes, too.

do you think it's ok for schools to discipline you for having cigarettes (not smoking them) if you're 18?
Schools have too many non-education related things to worry about. If cigarettes are forbidden then they are forbidden. Maybe I spent too much time in the military but things that get in the way of order and discipline without enhancing the agenda should be avoided.

As for junk food, this is a pretty wide net to cast considering the crap that passed as lunch when I went to school.

[VNV Nation]

i went to a public school. it was pretty bad.

i've always wondered how this school-board stuff affects kids. theoretically, all of this is supposed to help kids do better in school and prevent them from becoming big fat pigs, but i've always thought that the "we've decided this is for your own good" kind of thing created more resentment at administrators than it was worth.

[poorme]

the "smoking lounge" was eliminated when I was a freshman - around 1985. I wonder how they handle smoking in north carolina...they're probably handed out to calm the students.

[spitball]

Encouraging exercise would be nice.

[hmrsf]

The vending machines in the high schools have many choices and righ now.......................... BUT health food is in.

Carbonated beverages are out. Candy bars are out. Trail mix and power bars are in. Salad bars, potato bar, pasta bar in. Juice, lower fat milk in, water in. Bagging your own luch in. Junk food machines are there.........just not as many.

[soxfan121]

Maybe if there weren't such an insane focus on stadardized test scores (so schools can get their $$) and Physical Education hadn;t been DECIMATED as a result, there might not be such concern about soda and candy.

I'm going to reign myself in and not discuss this any further. It might get political. ;)

[JamesI]

I would think the BoE would have larger issues to worry about than the snacks the students eat.

[VNV Nation]

I don't think it took a lot of time or money or anything.

That said, Milk and Cookies for Everyone!!!!!