In an
article from the Detroit News, some Michigan Schools are banning students from bringing in treats for their birthday. This of course would only pertain to mostly elementary and middle school students, but this is being done in efforts to help fight childhood obesity, which has tripled nationally since 1980.
"Instead of the cupcakes, Alma district students celebrating birthdays now get an extra 30 minutes in gym class — policies that could be coming soon to all Michigan schools. "Alma joins districts in Bellaire and Roscommon in getting $40,000 in federal stimulus funds to pilot Michigan nutrition standards to fight childhood obesity, an epidemic linked to 20 chronic diseases.
This ban is all for the love of being healthy. Its not to punish the children that do eat right at home, its just to reinforce the efforts that the State of Michigan is trying to do about the issue of obesity. Some schools/universities have already changed their vending machines for more healthier choices.
What do you think about this? Should school districts be able to dictate what a student should and should not eat??
Until Next Time...
Lauren!
As a big fan of effective physical education and even bigger fan of gym class as a kid the 30 extra minutes of gym class seems like a lot of fun, but that it would also disrupt that one student's class time for the day if the rest of his class were busy learning fractions while the birthday boy was playing dodgeball.
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