Which would bother you more - daily PE or someone taking away your kid's lunch?

I'm not really sure what a PE is but it sounds like a 60 minuts of doing sport so I would not mind adding my son shoes for sport. About the school checking what my son eat ...It's good if they care for my son's health but I won't accept if they think my son's food is not healthy enaugh. I will go to the school and ask to see what is better and consult a professional dietitian. And , what is the red tape thing all about ? Maybe it's part of the PE that I don't know. I can only say it is very important to get involved in what's going on with the child in the school. The education system is not perfect and need improvements.

Daily PE is not a requirement in all schools? That's ridiculous. We had PE every day for the first 6 years and then in middle school it became an option. You HAD to take at least one semester of it but it was either that or choir/band. I can't understand how this is even a question. No wonder American children are fat.

I think kids should have daily PE, I think colleges should promote it as well but not require it. I also think on a bit of a side note that if they don't have PE everyday then they should give them longer recess times during the day. My kids get two 10 minute recesses and honestly by the time a person gets on their clothes to go outside in winter their recess is gone. The kids need that time to relax and destress! Lunch, I could see that. They send a list home of "suggestions" of what the kids can have for snack and lunch. They don't want the kids to have a lunch bag full of little debbies, cookies, and other high calorie HFC loaded junk. The part that angers me for my kids is they don't get enough time to eat they spend a portion of their lunch time in line waiting to get their food rather than eating.

The former doesn't happen often enough here and the latter all too often. That said I think that parents often do pack the wrong kind of stuff for their children. But perhaps guidelines would help.

when huckabee was governor in arkansas, he set it up that there was daily p.e. in every class every day. then he took out all sugary snacks. don't even think about bringing in any type of store bought desserts for any occassion as they weren't allowed either. it didn't bother my kids at all. what bothered me most is, i would recieve a letter every year telling me if my kids were fat or normal. i figure if my kids are healthy and happy, leave them alone! if the school says that you make too much money to have reduced/free meals, leave the kids alone. don't take their home lunches away to give them school food and then charge for it. that's crossing the parent line and it really needs to stop.schools are not meant to be parents. schools are not the ones that carried the child for nine months. the schools are not the ones that got up in the middle of the night when the child was sick or scared. schools don't tell me how to raise my kids.

For those of you who do not know what PE is, it stands for Physical Education. In other words, it's a class of physical exercises. I just responded to a thread about a school who take away a student's lunch brought from home (based on an article). Almost similar to that one, I see no reasons why a school needs to critique lunch brought from home. I would say that this school is probably asking for a huge trouble. Is this really happening to you?

The PE thing I would have no problem with. In fact I would make sure Any son of mine Had walking/ running shoes for school anyway. But if the Food Nazis tried to force feed my child I wouldn't let them. if they are going to take their lunch like a bully then I would either take my son out of school Or Johnny wouldn't eat until dinner, like his mother! I wouldn't pay for a school lunch either. They can try to force me but I will not. In fact would hope they would arrest me Over this lunch thing so I could get the press and the ACLU involved! Thankfully I have no children and Never will have them. And if I did, they wouldn't go to Any public school. That way they would Actually learn something other than how to take a test and get to eat what They like , Not what the Food Nazis say they should eat. What they don't know is kids won't eat what they don't like so by taking away their lunch means they will fast during the day and Over eat at night! I know that is what I would have done. I was and still am a picky eater. If I couldn't bring what I wanted to eat, I woud have just not eat until dinner. but they will try and soon they will figure out how kids will sneak in snacks or not eat.

i'd be telling them straight out i'm calling a lawyer. that's crossing the line in my opinion.their job is to teach the kid,that's it. as far as PE,i'd be all for it.some kids need to stop being couch potatoes.

hi boo... i dont think we will have any problem with school taking away our kid's lunch, becoz we bring / buy our own food here.. no such thing as 'provided by school' - those are only for who 'qualify' (very low income family). as for daily PE.. it's neither ok nor not ok with me.. i like it that my kids get to have 'supervised' exercise everyday, but.. at the sametime.. the laundry.. the cleaning.. that - i am not so thrilled about..

Yo u seem to be comparing apples and pickles. The only connection is that a parent has received a message from the child's school. If the lunch room police does not like my child's lunch he brought from home, he or she can pay for the school lunch that my child will dump in the garbage. I would not pay for anything I did not a authorize.

I like the PE idea better. They have actually become quite strict here when it comes to lunches and such. They don't really provide the children that bring their lunch an appropriate place to store it nor is there a means to warm it up unless it is in the teacher's lounge. My daughter has long ago given up the idea of taking hers. They do have them walk around the outside of the school after their lunch of the weather permits. It is supposed to boost their metabolism.

I am glad most schools K-8 make PE mandatory! I saw on the news that a kid was FORCED to eat a chicken nugget school meal because the sandwich/banana/milk lunch her mom packed wasnt good enough according to the school. I would be LIVID if my kids' school did that. I have already told my kids that if the school questions whats in their lunches they are to call me immediately and under NO circumstance are they to eat a school lunch without talking to me first.

I'm not a parent, but I guess I would be an unhappy one hearing these rules... Daily PE is fine if my kids like it, but there are kids who are a bit slower and get discriminated because of it. For them daily PE can be a punishment, and it very much depends on the teacher's attitude. About the school checking the kids food: it would be understandable if my kids get chocolate or junk food as a packed lunch. But if my children have food allergies will they be able to give them what they can eat? And if not, why would I have to pay for it?

I hate school, they are over ruling in everything. And its so ridiculous they are going to take away the food, because they didn't like it? Or they want it for themselves and not for your kid .. PPFFF Madness!

Hi Mommyboo, the daily PE is a good idea. Over here, we have compulsory PE lessons, but not to the extent of having it every day. Some high schools have strong emphasis on physical well being, and all students need to return to school on weekend for a 5 miles run. These are the elite schools. Most schools have at least the minimum, but for those who like to compete in sports, they can join the sport team, and receive training from the professionals. I think schools should not charge for lunch or provide lunch. They can get operators from outdoor to serve healthy meals. Kids can choose to buy from the canteen in school or bring their own food.

My kids enjoy PE, and my son would LOVE it if they had it everyday. I've ALWAYS let my kids help decide what to put in their lunches if I pack it for them, and I'm very proud to say that they keep it pretty balanced. They'll take a pb & j or lunchmeat & cheese, plus a couple of sides (1 usually being a fruit of some sort and the other sun chips or something like that), then a dessert and a drink (now the drink is a different story. It alternates between water, hugs juices, capri suns and on very rare occasions soda pop. My mom was telling me about that child this morning, and honestly I don't think PISSED would cover what I'd be if it happened to my child. What's to say that whoever's handling your child's food has even washed their hands, and what kind of germs are on it. And that's just the starter complaint with that. It's unsanitary, it leaves the child feeling bad and probably eating something they either don't like or can't have (due to health reasons or religious beliefs or whatever reason.) Then we'll get to the money part...I think as parents we put in so much money to our school systems we should be able to have MOST of the input into what is happening in the schools, from subjects, to recesses, to lunches and teachers/staff members. I would love to see them have more PE and more art and a whole lot less BS in general.

Actually both would tick me off. We have one of the most expensive K-12 education systems in the world. Last I checked we spent more the Briton and France, and most of the other first world nations. Yet whenever our students are directly pitting against students from other countries, we never come in first, or even close. It's so embarrassing given the massive amount of money we put into it the system, that the government avoids direct competition. Yet, to me... and perhaps I am wrong somehow, it's seems pretty obvious why our kids are so stupid compared to the kids of other countries. Just look at the priorities... PE? Running around and playing? That's the goal of school? Kids can run around at home. If you really want them to learn how to be in shape, teach them to mow the lawn, sweep the floors, clean their rooms, fix dinner, clean the dishes. In short, make them work. You'll be shocked how in shape they'll be, and didn't even need a $70K tenured PE teacher at a government school. If schools focused on the main reason they exist, to teach kids the basics of reading, writing, and arithmetic, you would have plenty of spare time to have fun and play... at home.

I wouldn't mind sending in the shoes everyday to school for PE, infact I would be happy if they had PE everyday at their school and I'm sure my child would love it too. But, as for the school taking away my child's lunch I wouldn't tolerate that since I know very well what is good my child and how to pack a healthy lunch ...