Food In Schools

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Why food is NOT allowed

Food is not allowed in class because then people who eat in class don’t always clean up after themselves. They end up leaving a mess behind and then the teacher gets mad at the whole class because no one wants to admit to doing it. Then when the whole class gets in trouble the people who didn’t even do it all get mad and start throwing fits. We end up having to do irrelevant work who isn’t even worth that many points. We all just end up being mad including the teacher. No one in this class is happy right now for typing a paper for something they didn’t even do. For whoever did it, it's disrespectful and shouldn’t have done it in the first place. I feel that if you had the guts to leave food all on the floor you should
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Instead of having the whole class do an assignment for something we didn’t even do. The federal government has banned the sale of junk food in schools across this great nation.
Finally, our schools will have something to do that is productive instead of worrying about things like teaching and learning, curriculum development, accurate budgeting, state testing, teacher evaluation, bus safety, sex education, charter schools, bullying prevention, safety and security, psychological counseling, social work, health screening, etc., etc., etc.Monitoring the sale of junk food in schools?Give me a break, please.What a waste of time and energy, from the Capitol building in Washington to the corridors of every school in the nation. This is simply something that is not the headache of the schools.I worked in public schools for over four decades. And guess what? I really don't care what your kids eat. I don't care how much they weigh. I don't care if they develop lousy eating habits that will negatively affect them in future life.How about the parents of these little cherubs of ours doing something instead of expecting the schools to raise their children for them? Schools would be a lot better off if we ask

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