Now that we've handed our petition into the school board, let's help establish a timetable by setting some goals. There are several Wellness policy recommendations that relate to getting the junk out of schools which should made mandatory and wouldn't require any major institutional changes.

Here are my suggestions, which spring from a day in which my efforts to keep a healthy balance in my children's diets was once again frustrated by events at their school: a bake sale at lunchtime (cookies, brownies and cupcakes competing directing with their peanut butter sandwiches... come on!) COMBINED with birthday treats in my first grader's classroom. So, today there were at least a few firstgraders who probably got through the school day with nothing but two hefty does of sugar between breakfast and evening. Here's what the school board could do immediately:

Prohibit the use of food in the classroom as an incentive or reward.
Prohibit the practice of allowing unhealthy foods to compete directly with lunch (i.e. bake sales at lunchtime).
Develop an information sheet for parents about healthy snacks and a policy for the kind of snacks that parents can send to school.

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