schools should not enforce healthy eating

Isn't it interesting how parents slowly relinquish parenting power over to schools, teachers, counselors, coaches and social workers?

Enforcing healthy eating isn't a terrible idea but it makes the presumption that if they don't do it, no one will. Another reason I hate public schools. Parents really should be watching what their kids eat and whether they get enough exercise. It's not the school's responsibility.

Well... when the parents aren't around, the school teachers & aids are legally in charge... and i believe that before the child enters a new grade, he or shes parents have to sign a certain paper that has alot to do with school lunches... Im not really sure so dont take that last comment real seriuos

LOL "I was talking to the debate" I guess I am thinking poorly in my old age...just imagine how old Xera/mother thingy must be if that's the case with me....

Xera/mother, I was talking to the debate, so basically if school lunches are "healthy", that means home meals are supposed to = unhealthy, because, I have been to schools (well okay just one) that makes the food, and it all tastes REALLY good. Then again the do fry the chicken, give out chocolate cakes, and let you have as much ketchup/mustard/maynase that you want, as long as there is enough in the big bottle. It also cost everbody over $4.00 every day. But you can have as much food from he previous day (including the cake) as you want, for free, everyday, as long as there is enough. Oddly enough, that food felt healthier than nasy Idabel school food. A question here may be "Is that chicken, or a sloppy Joe?" a question there may be "Why do they call it super nachoes?" or perhaps "Can I borrow a quarter for a milckshake? If you want, I can get you a spoon and we can share." Some things there weren't messed up, well okay just the lunch. The cost was WAY too much...

They taste bad too... >.<

No, grammar check - YOU'RE WRONG!

IAR, I hate to tell you but school food is horribly unhealthy. Most of what I make at home is healthier than what schools give you. School food is by and large, fattier, breadier, and contains more added sugar than those 'unhealthy' lunches you mentioned. The fact that they are so bad for you while at the same time tasting HORRIBLE is the real problem.

There is no reason schools can not provide a healthy, tasty, cost efficient lunch to students, and if they refuse to do so then all school campuses should be open to allow students to go get a good healthy and satisfying hot lunch.

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Hey, not only do I agree withpro, but con is "a fat blob" that doesn't apparently know how to debate.

Points and reasoning for agreeing with pro:

1) Schools (nor any body else) can really force what goes in another person's mouth, except force-feeding, which if the schools did, they would prolly get sued.
2) If all they serve (and they do now btw) is healthy food, it will taste worse, I know hard to believe, but trust me it does, so the kids will NOT eat them.

So by the above reasonings I believe, that "forcing" healthy foods in school, the children will not eat, so they still wont get all the vegtables/fruit (the meat is mostly tofu, so I doubt it can count as meat), thus the kids will either bring lunch from home, which is most likely not healthy such as:
A sandwithch
A banana/apple/grapes,etc.
Some chips
Something chocolate.

Or they will not eat, which causes kids to skip a meal, (trust me I do it every day, since school let out I have gained 15 pounds...)
which is an UNHEALTHY way for kids to loose weight. Thus, by schools being far grosser or "Healthier", they are actually causing most kids to loose weight in a worse way.

I have also brought the above lunch to school every day for a week, after (not) eating school lunch. I gained 3 pounds.
Thus by schools enforcing healthy eating, they are making kids more unhealthy. Thus defeating their own purpose.

I may start a debate about this...

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Please stop with the huge .......... lines, they are not necessary and screw up the web browser when I open the debate. It is very hard to read like this. From what I can read without straining my eyes overly neither one of you presented any kind of decent debate.

If you want to do a good job then
1. find out some statistics
2. find out who gets hurt and how badly
3. find out who gets helped and how much
4. use proper English.

Woah, I thought that was me for a minute, then I remembered i changed my photo...lol