School District Bans All Sweets

[thundley4]

The Straight Story   (1000+ posts)             Wed Dec-29-10 08:36 AM
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School District Bans All Sweets
   
School District Bans All Sweets

Kids of St. Paul, Minn., load up on the cookies now. Because if you’re a student in a public school there, you’re going to have to go without sweets during those many long hours you’re on school grounds.

All public schools in the St. Paul school district will be, by the school year’s end, sweet-free zones. That means no more cookies, cinnamon rolls or cakes for dessert with school lunches. Little Debbie’s snack cakes will be confiscated from home lunches. And concessions for school fundraisers can’t include hot chocolate or brownies.

No birthday cupcakes.

The St. Paul school district’s ban on sweets is an effort to live up to a wellness policy that parents, school administrators and teachers agreed on — but didn’t really act on — four years ago. It’s an effort to fight child obesity but also to get the district ready for the Child Nutrition Act, signed recently by President Obama, which could impose stricter rules on schools than simple soda bans.

The ban, which also includes fat- and salt-laden snack foods, isn’t expected to dramatically lower the districts 40 percent obesity rate. But it’s an effort, administrators say, to begin doing things differently. Teachers will come up with new ways to reward students other than with pizza coupons. Parents will have to find something other than cupcakes to bring in for a birthday celebration.

http://blogs.babble.com/strollerderby/2010/12/28/school... /

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x86814

What hath liberals wrought upon our poor kids?

Odin2005   (1000+ posts)             Wed Dec-29-10 08:43 AM
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1. OK, this is really stupid.
   
Edited on Wed Dec-29-10 08:51 AM by Odin2005
Confiscating Little Debbie snacks? No more birthday cupcakes? What kind of BS is this?

The world must be ending because I apparently agree with psycho Sarah.

I bet Queen Michelle would approve of this.

Odin2005   (1000+ posts)             Wed Dec-29-10 09:15 AM
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7. The nanny state is afoot.

You were warned about socialism.

Warren Stupidity   (1000+ posts)             Wed Dec-29-10 10:03 AM
Response to Reply #7
18. the article states that parents teachers and administrators agreed
   
on this policy. How is that a 'Nanny State'? At worst it is a Self-Nanny State.

Maybe it's because no one thought the district would go that far?

[NHSparky]

While you're at it, make sure you ban fruits and fruit juices too...you know how many grams of sugar/carbs are in 12 ounces of orange juice?

[GOBUCKS]

While you're at it, make sure you ban fruits and fruit juices too...you know how many grams of sugar/carbs are in 12 ounces of orange juice?

They need to ban anything that contains a calorie. It takes a village to starve a child.

[Ralph Wiggum]

While you're at it, make sure you ban fruits and fruit juices too...you know how many grams of sugar/carbs are in 12 ounces of orange juice?

There's a lot of sugar in ketchup too, let's go ahead and ban that!

[thundley4]

There's a lot of sugar in ketchup too, let's go ahead and ban that!

I'll bet most schools use Heinz Ketchup.

[true_blood]

Warren Stupidity   (1000+ posts)             Wed Dec-29-10 10:03 AM
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18. the article states that parents teachers and administrators agreed on this policy. How is that a 'Nanny State'? At worst it is a Self-Nanny State.

Liberalism. Stupid policies brought about by stupid people.

[NHSparky]

There's a lot of sugar in ketchup too, let's go ahead and ban that!

No, that's a vegetable, remember?

[GOBUCKS]

All fruits and vegetables contain sugar. Since it has nothing to do with obesity or nutrition, they should specify that the ban only affects those foods that are criticized by democrat food nazis.

[jukin]

More busy work for our educators to fritter away the day instead of teaching our children.

I assume there will be a ZERO TOLERANCE for this crime and the little kiddies that dare to bring sugar to school will be expelled.

[Rebel]

Hey lurkers, this is Progressivism in a nutshell.

[true_blood]

All fruits and vegetables contain sugar. Since it has nothing to do with obesity or nutrition, they should specify that the ban only affects those foods that are criticized by democrat food nazis.

That is true.
What are they going to do? Hand out a list to the parents for foods that are allowed and foods that aren't allowed?!
STUPID!!

[Karin]

A few days ago, when San Fran (or the equivalent) banned the plastic grocery bag, the DUmmies were all atwitter, rejoicing.  One of the posters said "This is dumb.  This gives liberals a bad name."  They jumped all over him with both feet. 

I rowed over for a few secs.  WarrenStupidity and rainy are all for this, and rainy even spammed 124 reasons that refined sugar is bad for you, which I did not read, and would delete if I were a mod.  Most of the others think this is overreach.

kctim (1000+ posts)      Wed Dec-29-10 12:01 PM
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34. This will be great for the Dem Party
 "WE, not you, know what is best for you, so shut up and live like WE tell you to live," sure brings the pro votes out come election time.

[VivisMom]

That is true.
What are they going to do? Hand out a list to the parents for foods that are allowed and foods that aren't allowed?!
STUPID!!

As the parent of an underweight kid (almost 4 and not even 30 pounds,) I would happily send my kid to school with foods that would make the no-no list: whole chocolate milk, PB&J, Oreos, Goldfish. And when they tried to tell me my kid couldn't eat it, I'd come back with a doctors note that said my underweight kid can eat anything I damn well pack in her lunch.

[true_blood]

As the parent of an underweight kid (almost 4 and not even 30 pounds,) I would happily send my kid to school with foods that would make the no-no list: whole chocolate milk, PB&J, Oreos, Goldfish. And when they tried to tell me my kid couldn't eat it, I'd come back with a doctors note that said my underweight kid can eat anything I damn well pack in her lunch.

I like it. Good for you.

[IassaFTots]

No more Birthday Cupcakes?  What are you going to do, Birthday Carrots?????   

[VivisMom]

No more Birthday Cupcakes?  What are you going to do, Birthday Carrots?????   

That's the kid who gets no Valentines on Valentine's Day. 

[thundley4]

That's the kid who gets no Valentines on Valentine's Day. 

Some schools have already banned giving Valentine's Day cards, because not everyone got the same amount. 

[VivisMom]

Some schools have already banned giving Valentine's Day cards, because not everyone got the same amount. 

Are you effing kidding me?!?!?!?! 

[thundley4]

Are you effing kidding me?!?!?!?! 

Oops. It was in England.  Still, it is only a matter of time.

[Celtic Rose]

Some schools have already banned giving Valentine's Day cards, because not everyone got the same amount. 

We always had to bring one for every student in the class.

[thundley4]

We always had to bring one for every student in the class.

In the late 60's when I was in grade school, we only gave them to the ones we wanted.  boys never gave them to boys and girls never gave them to girls.

[DefiantSix]

No more Birthday Cupcakes?  What are you going to do, Birthday Carrots?????    

That's the kid who gets no Valentines on Valentine's Day. 

Nope.  That loser tag belongs more properly to the lunatic parents of the poor kid bringing in birthday carrots or the like.

These are also the kids that after 13 years in moonbat indoctrination (aka: publik skoool) and 18 years of moonbat brainwashing from their unbathed hippy-dippy parents, either go on a killing spree and wind up permanent wards of the state, require $250,000 of intense psychological counselling before they're capable of leading anything remotely resembling a normal life by the time they're out of college (with their BA in Womyn's Studies), or they find sanity, join a branch of the service, and the highly trained and efficient drill instruction cadre gets their head pulled out of their colon, points them in the right direction, and salvages a functional human being from the liberal insanity at a fraction of the price of life counsellors and psychiatrists for the next 20 years.

[VivisMom]

We always had to bring one for every student in the class.

Same, but I always managed to "forget" ones for the kids I didn't like. 

[IassaFTots]

Same, but I always managed to "forget" ones for the kids I didn't like. 

Yeah, and the people I liked best got the good ones.  I don't remember having to give one to everyone, I seem to recall my Mom telling me it was the proper thing to do. 

[debk]

What's so stupid about banning sweets, is that some foods that will be allowed are worse than some of the "sweets". I had never paid much attention to the amount of carbs in different foods, until I went on this diet back in July (40lbs gone   ). I had only paid attention to calories and sodium. I was really surprised at the things I was told to not eat.

Any fruit. Bananas, apples and grapes are FULL of carbs!!! Unsweetened apple juice has 30g of carbs in 8ounces

No pastas, potatoes, or beans.

No cereals.

No catsup, bar-b-que sauce.

No MILK! in 2% milk there are 11.7g in 8ounces.

No peas, corn, cooked carrots.



As most people know, with the exception of this school district!, carbs transform in the body into 'gasp!' SUGAR!!!!

What do they think they have been feeding these kids in the school lunch room? CARBS!! Cheapest foods - pastas, potatoes, peas, corn, carrots, apples and bananas...are all high in carbs.

And they are worried about a kid having a Little Debbie cake in their lunch brought from home? I'd say the kids that are eating lunch brought from home, even with a snack cake, are probably eating healthier than the kids getting the "healthy lunch" prepared by the school!!