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12-01-2007, 05:14 PM
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Lawmakers Consider School Food Limits
I entered school in 1973 and graduated from high school in 1986, we never had vending machines or junk food in the cafeteria.
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12-01-2007, 05:16 PM
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graduated in 1956, even that long ago we had soda machines in cafeteria but no junk food.
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12-01-2007, 05:37 PM
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I graduated HS in 1954, and never saw a soda machine, in any Calif. school I attended. The closest thing to junk food, that I remember, was mac and cheese, on fridays.
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12-01-2007, 05:40 PM
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I graduated in 1981. We had both vending machines for junk food and pop machines. The food from the vending machines was much healthier for us than the cafetaria food and I am not joking.
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12-01-2007, 07:12 PM
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I Graduated In 1980's And We Did Not Have Vending Machines In The Lunch Room. We Had Candy Machines At The Pool That Was It.
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12-01-2007, 08:19 PM
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I guess the real question is why were soda/pop and candy machines allowed into the schools in the first place? My 4th grader and 7th grader don't have vending machines at their schools.
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12-01-2007, 10:47 PM
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I guess the real question is why were soda/pop and candy machines allowed into the schools in the first place? My 4th grader and 7th grader don't have vending machines at their schools.
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To answer that question, look to the money. How much does the vending machine company pay the school (or school district) for allowing the machines on campases? It's usually a % of sales.
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12-01-2007, 11:37 PM
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To answer that question, look to the money. How much does the vending machine company pay the school (or school district) for allowing the machines on campases? It's usually a % of sales.
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I understand the economics of machines, but wonder if parents were allowed to vote for or against them to be put in schools.  |
12-01-2007, 11:48 PM
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I live in a school district, I pay school taxes, I was never ask about putting vending machines in the schools.
Were you?
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12-02-2007, 11:06 AM
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My kids have been in school in OK, VA, GA, and now AZ. None of the schools had vending machine nor did it ever come up.
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