Dear School Board:
Fully-fund your programs or STFU.
Love,
'bub

/16 years in the classroom & counting

As someone who works in the Ashland schools, I am getting a kick etc etc etc....

/not a teacher

DamnYankees: Why is this stupid?

Because requiring that all the food meet some standard of healthy is asinine especially when the healthy options aren't. Fruit juice is considered healthy by school and yet it's less than 10% juice and a crapload of sweetener.

eddyatwork: DamnYankees: Why is this stupid?

Because requiring that all the food meet some standard of healthy is asinine especially when the healthy options aren't. Fruit juice is considered healthy by school and yet it's less than 10% juice and a crapload of sweetener.

I think you mean the "100% juice" blends that are mostly apple or grape juice, and thus pretty much sugar water.

I've never understood why dozens of people spending hundreds of hours baking crap to raise hundreds of dollars is preferable to each of those peopl just dropping a 5 spot into the jar.

It's like these people inhabit a Little Rascals episode or something.

DamnYankees: Why is this stupid?

Because, based on context, "nutritional" should be "nutritious", so the tag is in reference to the subby.

/grammar nazi

This headline is carp, thus I refuse to read said article. Ipso facto.

Bwhahaha, I hope this law passes. Screw schools.

jeez, school boards must have the stupid for a loooong time because mark twain said "first god invented idiots, that was for practice. then he invented school boards."

Follow the examples of other countries and ditch about 1/2 to 2/3 of the administration for schools.

eddyatwork: DamnYankees: Why is this stupid?

Because requiring that all the food meet some standard of healthy is asinine especially when the healthy options aren't. Fruit juice is considered healthy by school and yet it's less than 10% juice and a crapload of sweetener.

this is why I feed my kids vitamin water

Looks like someone ordered too much nutraloaf and thought this was a good way to sell it.

I look forward to the next school basketball game where the kids are selling their soy chips, rice milk and granola bars to raise money for the senior trip they won't be taking.

With the amount of fat fuks in school now, it's amazing people let kids get exposed to any crap foods at public schools.

If your not part of the solution, what are you part of?

Lead by example or don't lead at all.

Kiribub: 16 years in the classroom & counting

Ouch. Have you considered getting a tutor or something?

meow said the dog: sethstorm: Looks like someone ordered too much nutraloaf and thought this was a good way to sell it.

LAUGHTER OL no selling healthy things to fat people is like asking a the Fark.com member on a date. Because both are fat.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nutraloaf - This kind of nutraloaf.

Ban the sales altogether. The Progressive era pushed through public schooling and banning of child labor for a reason. HINT: It was not so the six year olds could focus on selling brownies or overpriced gift wrap so they could get textbooks.

Ed Willy: Ban the sales altogether. The Progressive era pushed through public schooling and banning of child labor for a reason. HINT: It was not so the six year olds could focus on selling brownies or overpriced gift wrap so they could get textbooks.

There is one important exception: Girl Scouts. Because fark it, those cookies are good.

Bloody William: Ed Willy: Ban the sales altogether. The Progressive era pushed through public schooling and banning of child labor for a reason. HINT: It was not so the six year olds could focus on selling brownies or overpriced gift wrap so they could get textbooks.

There is one important exception: Girl Scouts. Because fark it, those cookies are good.

I'm okay with Boy Scouts/Girl Scouts or sports teams, those aren't mandatory activities. Kids can learn to sell things on their own time. Education during school hours.

//Lets us pray these health nuts don't go after Girl Scouts Cookies.

You can make a lot of seriously stupid money from a bake sale - put a call out for donations, and many won't drop a dollar, but the same people will buy a brownie for five bucks because it is 'for a good cause'.

Anyway, I agree - I like bake sales with goodies, why? Because I don't bake desserts, and a chance to donate and enjoy an occasional homemade treat - for a good cause - is worth it. I HAVE nutrigrain bars ... pfft! .. not tempting at all! As long as the bake sale is NOT during the school day where sugared up kids can be disruptive in class.

qitty: You can make a lot of seriously stupid money from a bake sale - put a call out for donations, and many won't drop a dollar, but the same people will buy a brownie for five bucks because it is 'for a good cause'.

Anyway, I agree - I like bake sales with goodies, why? Because I don't bake desserts, and a chance to donate and enjoy an occasional homemade treat - for a good cause - is worth it. I HAVE nutrigrain bars ... pfft! .. not tempting at all! As long as the bake sale is NOT during the school day where sugared up kids can be disruptive in class.

I'm morally opposed to bake sales just because I don't think schools should have to resort to that bullshiat just to fund their programs. But you're right, often the food there can be really good.

In high school, the track team would have an annual fund raiser with homemade lollipops the coach/health teacher made. They were huge suckers the size of hockey pucks he'd make in a ton of different flavors, and they were farking awesome (and would last half the day if you didn't crunch them). I know how to make that stuff myself, at least technically, but sometimes it's just better to drop a few dollars on one, especially if it's "for a good cause."

AmazingRuss: I've never understood why dozens of people spending hundreds of hours baking crap to raise hundreds of dollars is preferable to each of those peopl just dropping a 5 spot into the jar.

It's like these people inhabit a Little Rascals episode or something.

I tried that once. My status as 'room mom' was revoked and I was shunned. Of course, that was after the 'potluck dinner incident of 2002'. It's still too painful to talk about that one.

meow said the dog: LAUGHTER OL this is the silliest thing ever. Fat people of the United States of America will find ways to be fat especially if they have the insurance company who is stupid enough to do the covering of them for heart disease and dysfunction of the sex stick.

well if you want to pull the whole insurance card out, fark everyone and don't insure anyone. Survival of the fittest! If you are too stupid to need a doctor, then you are too stupid to live.

Dang. If the school board had restricted junk food back when I was in school, I would have been a black marketing king. I would have brought suitcases of goodies to break the embargo.

Ed Willy: Bloody William: Ed Willy: Ban the sales altogether. The Progressive era pushed through public schooling and banning of child labor for a reason. HINT: It was not so the six year olds could focus on selling brownies or overpriced gift wrap so they could get textbooks.

There is one important exception: Girl Scouts. Because fark it, those cookies are good.

I'm okay with Boy Scouts/Girl Scouts or sports teams, those aren't mandatory activities. Kids can learn to sell things on their own time. Education during school hours.

//Lets us pray these health nuts don't go after Girl Scouts Cookies.

You are way, way to late with that hope. There are protests every year about Girl Scout cookies.