[Tricks]

commanderkai commanderkai:

Brenda Brenda:

Of course it will. School shouldnt supply shit like that, and at least they have to walk down the street. The ones that are too freaking lazy won't do that.

Eh. No it won't. My old high school in Whitby, Ontario, had fast food restaurants, convenience stores, among other places barely a few feet away. People might be lazy, but high school students will have the motivation to leave the school to eat if the cafeteria doesn't serve what they want.

Wait you're from Shitby? WHA!? What school did you go to? I'm from Shitby too.

[commanderkai]

Tricks Tricks:

Wait you're from Shitby? WHA!? What school did you go to? I'm from Shitby too.

Anderson C.V.I. I was there for a few years before heading off to Michigan. Which school were you at?

[Lemmy]

It's hypocracy to provide a "healthy" array of foods and beverages in the school while allowing students to go outside to smoke cigarettes. Drive by any highscool and you'll see scores of kids outside smoking between classes. If the school boards really gave a shit about the health of our youth, they'd start by addressing teen smoking.

As others have noted, policing the foods sold in the school does NOTHING to prevent kids from going off-campus to purchase junk food. All this accomplishes is reduced school revenues at the cafeteria and from their vending machines, both of which can be lucrative sources of funding for school programs.

To limit children's menu choices while allowing them freedom to smoke is like handing out lifejackets to passengers as the plane goes down. Yeah, it may do some good, but there's a lot bigger safety concerns that aren't being addressed.

[commanderkai]

On top of this, is the fact that food prices are excessively high at school to begin with. Somebody mentioned the $2.25 bottled water and the $6.10 poutine. Considering neither the helping nor the quality is that good, why even bother?

[ShepherdsDog]

My highschool had a fully serviced cafeteria. The students that were taking the food services vocational program worked there. You got everything from subs, burgers and fries to a soup and sandwich of the day to a special entrée, which could have been ham and scalloped potatoes, roast beef or roast chicken with the fixings.

Grant Park High School, which is the local high school in our neighbourhood back in Canada, tried to ban 'junk' food and only sell healthy alternatives. The kids found it too expensive and walked a hundred feet to the Rotten Ronnie's in the Grant Park shopping Centre

[Hyack]

Grant Park High School......Holy crap, thanks for bringing back some memories from Winterpeg....

[Yogi]

ShepherdsDog ShepherdsDog:

My highschool had a fully serviced cafeteria. The students that were taking the food services vocational program worked there. You got everything from subs, burgers and fries to a soup and sandwich of the day to a special entrée, which could have been ham and scalloped potatoes, roast beef or roast chicken with the fixings.

Grant Park High School, which is the local high school in our neighbourhood back in Canada, tried to ban 'junk' food and only sell healthy alternatives. The kids found it too expensive and walked a hundred feet to the Rotten Ronnie's in the Grant Park shopping Centre

We didn't have a caf in Shilo. We actually had to walk/bike/snowshoe home everyday for lunch!

[ShepherdsDog]

My wife went to university in Brandon for her undergraduate degree, and did some of her student teaching in Shilo. She usually ate at the Canex,which is where she tried poutine for her first and last time.

[Yogi]

ShepherdsDog ShepherdsDog:

My wife went to university in Brandon for her undergraduate degree, and did some of her student teaching in Shilo. She usually ate at the Canex,which is where she tried poutine for her first and last time.

She must have driven over there. By the time she would have walked over, it would have been time to turn around and go back to school! Which school? PEHS,( my alma mater) Greenwood or O'Kelly?

[martin14]

Lemmy Lemmy:

It's hypocracy to provide a "healthy" array of foods and beverages in the school while allowing students to go outside to smoke cigarettes. Drive by any highscool and you'll see scores of kids outside smoking between classes. If the school boards really gave a shit about the health of our youth, they'd start by addressing teen smoking.

As others have noted, policing the foods sold in the school does NOTHING to prevent kids from going off-campus to purchase junk food. All this accomplishes is reduced school revenues at the cafeteria and from their vending machines, both of which can be lucrative sources of funding for school programs.

To limit children's menu choices while allowing them freedom to smoke is like handing out lifejackets to passengers as the plane goes down. Yeah, it may do some good, but there's a lot bigger safety concerns that aren't being addressed.

funny guy with rant about food, not thinking for 5 seconds
and realizing if the kids can go across the street to buy their junk food,
they can do the same for a smoke as well.

I know, let's lock the kids in school for 8 hours a day.
That'll fix 'em.


When whatever idiot decided to put the vending machines inside schools,
they already acknowledged they don't give a shit about students,
just money.

Instead, stop thinking school board.. start thinking PARENTS.

[Public_Domain]

[PublicAnimalNo9]

My junior high school had one pop machine in it. That was 30 years ago.
My high school however, didn't have a single vending machine. What it did have was one of the top 10 high school lunch progrmas in the country. IF you wanted to buy fries and gravy, you could get it but they also provided healthy alternatives as well. And sure, we'd joke about today's meatloaf being yesterdays gravy but all in all, the food at the school was pretty darn good.
The nearest place outside the school to eat was about a half mile away.

[sandorski]

When I went to School, we had Water Fountains.

[saturn_656]

sandorski sandorski:

When I went to School, we had Water Fountains.

They still do.

[PublicAnimalNo9]

These were the only fountains they had at my school.