Soft Drink Ban in Ontario schools

[Taualumna]

...but the ban is only in elementary and middle schools. High schools will continue to sell 'em.

http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/Con...=1073430609824

[sigmanuzk]

At my school district here in california we never had soda at any of the elementary or jr. high schools, just at the High Schools. I never knew that this wasn't a common thing.

[sugar and spice]

Same with us -- no vending machines in elementary school, and only a juice machine in middle school.

[CutiePie2000]

It is happening in Alberta too, the soft drink ban.

[honeychile]

I'm all for this!! It's about time that the sugar factor is taken out of the schools!!

[Munchkin03]

Originally posted by honeychile
I'm all for this!! It's about time that the sugar factor is taken out of the schools!!

Cosign!

[Taualumna]

SHould have added this: I think they should be banned in ALL SCHOOLS, not just elementary and middle schools.

[AGDee]

I agree! My kids' elementary school has "pop" (yes, in Michigan it is pop) machines. They also have a snack cart with every imaginable form of junk food known to man on it. My son finally confessed that his meal card was being depleted so quickly because he was buying things from the snack cart every day... grrrrrrrr.

Today the whole family started an "eat healthy, exercise regularly" plan and I'm sending a note to school that he is NOT to buy things from the snack cart! He's only 7, sheesh.

Dee

[PhiPsiRuss]

While they're at it, why don't they replace white bread with whole wheat? The kids will complain for a week and then get used to it.

[rainbowbrightCS]

All forms of sugar are banned in most of the High schools in PHX (or was)

Like a huge school called North has all these empty soda/ snack machines sitting there.

Its weird, I mean I understand elem/ jr high but High school?

Chris

[Taualumna]

Originally posted by rainbowbrightCS
All forms of sugar are banned in most of the High schools in PHX (or was)

Like a huge school called North has all these empty soda/ snack machines sitting there.

Its weird, I mean I understand elem/ jr high but High school?

Chris

They can't even sell juice?

[sugar and spice]

Well . . . somebody correct me if I'm wrong, but apple juice has just as much sugar as Coke.

Personally I feel that by the time you get to high school, the kids are going to be eating and drinking what they want to eat and drink anyway, and at least if you have a soda machine the school can make a little money off of it.

[Taualumna]

Originally posted by sugar and spice
Well . . . somebody correct me if I'm wrong, but apple juice has just as much sugar as Coke.

Personally I feel that by the time you get to high school, the kids are going to be eating and drinking what they want to eat and drink anyway, and at least if you have a soda machine the school can make a little money off of it.

Yeah, but there's always UNSWEETENED juice (that does not contain any form of artificial sweetener).

[Sister Havana]

We had pop machines in my high school but they were turned off during the school day. You could buy pop before and after school from the one in the entranceway. They did keep the pop machines in the boys' and girls' locker rooms in the gym on all day, so what we would do is sneak into the locker room just before lunch, before the final bell rang, and get a pop. (It was easier for girls to do this since the girls' locker room was right by the gym entrance, as opposed to the boys' locker room, all the way on the other side of the gym. If a gym teacher caught you in there when it was not your gym period, you got in trouble.)

[RedMusiq4U]

The ban might be a good thing b/c to much sugar at an early age can stunt growth but on the other hand who says that they won't continue to drink whatever they want at home! but teaching them nutritional values at an early age will hopefully stick w/ them as they grow older. I remember having drink machines in elementary and middle school that's want probably stunted my growth......lol