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Mon 7 Jun, 2004 11:02 am
A local school has decided that beginning next school year, there will be no more cupcakes allowed in celebration of children's birthdays. The school is concerned about child obesity. I can understand being concerned about child obesity, but is it really the cupcakes that cause obesity? My child takes slims so she is far from being obese and I do not deny her occasional cupcakes. Wouldn't you think they would look at the school lunches first? I have personally viewed what is typically given for school lunches and they are full are fat and salt. I think denying an occasional treat is only going to cause children to want them more. Funny thing is I also heard one elementary teacher claim that they no longer allow the children to run during recess. How absurd is that? How are children to exercise?
you're surprised by stupidity from our educational system?
I think you have to start somewhere. My guess is that the Cupcake Ban is part and parcel of a revamping of nutritional standards designed for No Sweets in the school day.
Have you talked to the Principal's Office?
The cupcake idea is laughable. At noon or early afternoon, visit the local MacDonalds and watch the kids chow down all the fries and burgers. If they can't have a cupcake in school, does anyone really think the kids will stop their daily visits to MacDonalds?
Bi-Polar Bear wrote:you're surprised by stupidity from our educational system?
This is the school system that can't seem to curtail the oral sex that takes place on the school bus, while the kids are in transit to school.
When the pendulum swings it always swings to the extreme.
They should just fit the children with little helmets and pads then sit them in a corner for all of recess. Meanwhile, their cafeteria food should consist of 100% fiber.
Individual wrote:They should just fit the children with little helmets and pads then sit them in a corner for all of recess. Meanwhile, their cafeteria food should consist of 100% fiber.
Good idea, except think of the expense of all that toliet paper!
Childhood obesity is definately a problem in this country. I think it would be good to take vending machines out of schools, for starters.
And no running? That's not good!
Miller-
To eat? I was thinking that we could just do away with lawn mowers and tree barkers...
Individual wrote:Miller-
To eat? I was thinking that we could just do away with lawn mowers and tree barkers...
Toliet paper to eat? No way! Toliet paper to use. If the kids eat all that fiber, they'll need tons of toliet paper.
Be sure to put some frosting on those cup cakes.
The cupcake ban may have been a little overboard. But remember obesity has become and is a national health problem. In fact I read some where for the first time children of today will be less healthy than their parents. People are beginning to eat themselves into an early grave.
au1929 wrote:The cupcake ban may have been a little overboard. But remember obesity has become and is a national health problem. In fact I read some where for the first time children of today will be less healthy than their parents. People are beginning to eat themselves into an early grave.
What next? When you file your tax return, you'll have to send to the Feds your fat index! If you have a high fat index, you'll have to pay a penalty on your tax return.
How much money per extra gram of body fat will have to be paid to the Gov?
What CAN the kids bring to celebrate their birthdays? A pencil for each classmate? What Fun!
Miller
I must have been mistaken I thought this was an intelligent discussion not a joke fest..
reminds of the joke where a guy has a big steak with fries and all the trimmings ... when he orders a coffee, he insists on artificial sweetener because "i have to watch the calories" . growing up "a long time ago" and having always had a healthy appetite, i really can't remember that there were any really overweight kids in school. sure, we weren't all the same size, but when i see the size of some kids now, it really makes me shudder. of course, we did not have super-sized fries and two liter bottles of coke or monster slushies. we had physical exercise in school at least three to four times a week; this was simple stuff : races, ballgames, swimming , exercises in the gym during the winter ... also we had to walk at least 20 to 30 minutes to get to school and get back home. today most kids get driven around by schoolbus. when i see fotball or other ballgames in the schoolyard now, a few kids are playing - i guess that is the TEAM" - and the other kids are sitting in the stands and yell. i think, more regular exercise for all kids would be a step in the right direction. btw. i was mediocre at best when it came to sports - i was often the last one being picked for a team - but we all had to participate. hbg
There were a couple of "really overweight" kids in school when I went. Only a couple, though, and we even had a snack machine! (It had fresh apples and oranges in it -- only.)
We had school buses (semi-rural area; most kids were at least a couple miles from school, on heavily traveled roads with no sidewalks) and active recess -- just once a day, not two or three times like my daughter had -- mostly, I think, it was lack of junk food. My snacks at home were vegetables (cold canned greenbeans were my favorite) and fruit. Kool-Aid was a treat -- water was a thirst-quencher and lemonade was a cooking lesson. We never had "pop" in the house except Fifty-Fifty (a Sprite-like stuff) when someone was sick, then the sick kid got the pop.
That's very unlike my home now... My daughter's not fat, but it's more because she's active than because her diet is good.
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