This week we discussed many different health issues that are being faced every day by our children. Some health issues that our children are facing include Childhood Obesity and Nutrition. As we were discussing the topics we kept referring to parent’s responsibilities. I feel that every day we educators are taking more and more of a parental role than ever seen before.
As I discussed this topic with my peers at work this week, we keptreferring to the same thing time and time again. They feel that theynoticed the biggest shift from parent responsibility to teacher responsibility occurred with the inclusion of free breakfast to students. The teachers said that before this occurred they could remember how actively involved all parents were, but once the free breakfast started parents started showing less and less. Also if they had food for their child, they would just send the child to school early so that the child was out of their hair earlier.
Over the years we have seen a huge increase in the amount of students who are obese. I believe this is a direct connection to the children now eating twice a day at the school. As stated in the article StudiesSuggest School Cafeterias Still Need to Trim the Fat showed this example“elementary school students were more likely to be overweight when their schools offered French fries or desserts more than once a week.” Every day at our schools the student’s lunch comes with some type of dessert, whether it’s a cookie, pudding or jello. If studies are showing this type of statistics why are we offering this type of food to our students?
So I believe that it is a joint responsibility on how poor our children’s shape is. If the schools had not started offering free breakfast I feelas though parents would be more responsible. At the same time we should be able to offer different programs for the needy and not have parents abuse the program meant to help others receive the nutrition they need to participate throughout a rigorous day of school.

Is there any between teachers' unions and the recent teacher misconduct legislation?
....(and other questions....)
Saturday, March 28, 2009
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