Connecting Piedmont High, California and Hillsborough, Sodas and Classrooms

Bake Sales Fall Victim to Push for Healthier Foods - NYTimes.com:



"The Piedmont High water polo team falls woefully short of these standards, selling cupcakes, caramel apples and lemon bars off campus in a flagrant act of nutritional disobedience."


School officials certainly have their hams over their hocks when it comes to promoting healthy diets for the kids that provide them a job. Even right here in HCPS, we know that healthy food is high on the list of priorties, almost right up there with money. I just hope I am watching our Board meeting when they find an alternative placement for the kids and employees that are "nutritionally disobediant".

For those who don't remember, there are a couple of links that can bring this perspective back to us in living color.

PRO on HCPS: Get Your Fat Ass Off The Bus -But Buy a Pepsi When You Get To School

I will make it easy for you:

Perspective: Pepsi high:

"I don't know if I'm comfortable with having beverages on a school campus,' said school board member Jennifer Faliero. 'My grandpa Faliero calls it bellywash.' But Faliero ultimately voted in favor of the contract, which passed unanimously.

To be fair, board members have had to stomach a lot in recent months, slashing more than $32-million from the district's annual budget because of funding cuts in the Legislature. Kindergarten aides, school psychologists, guidance counselors and afterschool programs all took hits. Faced with a decision that would actually benefit the district financially, the board jumped at the chance.

'I agree that sodas are not the best thing in the world for you, but we have to find every possible resource to educate our children,' said board member Candy Olson in a recent interview. 'We have an obligation to provide healthy food and we have an obligation to teach about healthy diets, but I don't think the schools have the responsibility of being the food police. And I don't think schools should be expected to turn up their noses at ($4 million a year).'"

"As Bookman said, "If Pepsi is willing to put $50-million on the table, it's hard to say no.""

Our board may not be the food police, but does anyone else think that there is a hint of some being the thought police?