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Originally posted by Lady Pi Phi
I don't think it's the school's responsibility to control the weight of the students, but they are the only ones that seem to care. I think schools should make phys. ed. a mandatory class up untill graduation of highschool. Sometimes that is the only exercise children get. Their should only be healthy lunch options in the cafeteria, and healthy lunches can taste good too. They just shouldn't serve things like burgers and hotdogs and fries or pizza.
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The lunch idea simply does not work. As many, many people who work in the field of education understand, if pizza, etc. is not available, kids don't buy lunch, they just bring trashy stuff from home or go off campus if they're allowed to. Offering healthy options at the expense of junk food is not, at many schools, financially feasible. If it was, it would have been done a long time ago. In some schools, mandatory phys. ed is not financially feasible either. Even in those where it is, it's usually not a class that gets anyone except the most dedicated going enough to burn a significant amount of calories. At my school, gym was fifty minutes. Take off ten-fifteen for changing clothes, attendance, etc. That leaves 35-40 minutes for actual activity, which probably will not be high-calorie burning. I might burn MAYBE (a generous estimate) 150 calories in a gym class, which will burn off, oh, half a slice of pizza.
I think people need to think this through instead of just spouting off some opinion with no research behind it. All of these suggestions take money. Our schools are underfunded as they are. Our district got a couple million dollars from Coke every year to keep vending machines in the school. Why the hell should they pull that contract and lose out on the money when, if there's no soda machines in the school, kids will just bring their own from home or go down the street to buy some?
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