The kids would like to have a word with you.
One size does not fit all. The kicker here is that the poor kids, that don't get enough to eat at home, now have even less.
Exercise would have been a better choice of routes to go. Kids used to get something called recess, but they don't anymore. It may be there in look, but it's no longer utilized. It's left to a teachers discretion on whether the kids go out or not. It's used as a tool in corporal punishment. One child acting out, can and does, take away recess for the rest of the kids. When my daughter was in the second grade, she got recess twice, the whole year. She is now in high school, so that tells you how long this has been going on.
Something else came about from taking away recess as well, it's called "ants in the pants" syndrome.
Children weren't meant to sit, and pay attention for 7 hours a day. So consequently they squirm, the teacher complains, and so a trip is scheduled with the pediatrician, to prescribe the meds needed to
physically restrain the child. Which does have it's vantage points I suppose, certain types of the medication not only physically restrain the child they also retard the appetite. But on the other hand, if a psychotic medication ( think Zombie kid here, because this type of med was actually designated for schizophrenics and is now being sold as the ADD wonder drug) actually promotes massive weight gain.
Michelle needs to back up and get a new plan, because kids that are starving, also can't concentrate, and that in turn leads to a complaining teacher and then the trip is scheduled to see the doctor to get the meds.
It's nothing more than a vicious cycle, that Michelle has only intensified, and all children are now made to suffer for it.
By 7 a.m. Monday, senior Nick Blohm already had burned about 250 calories in the Mukwonago High School weight room.
He grabbed a bagel and a Gatorade afterward; if he eats before lifting, he gets sick.
That was followed by eight periods in the classroom, and then three hours of football practice. By the time he headed home, he had burned upward of 3,000 calories - his coach thinks the number is even higher.
But the calorie cap for his school lunch? 850 calories.
"A lot of us are starting to get hungry even before the practice begins," Blohm said. "Our metabolisms are all sped up."
Following new federal guidelines, school districts nationwide have retooled their menus to meet new requirements to serve more whole grains, only low-fat or nonfat milk, daily helpings of both fruits and vegetables, and fewer sugary and salty items. And for the first time, federal funds for school lunches mandate age-aligned calorie maximums. The adjustments are part of the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010 touted by Michelle Obama and use the updated Dietary Guidelines for Americans from the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
The changes are hard to swallow for students like Blohm. On Monday, 70% of the 830 Mukwonago High students who normally
