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Whatever happened to the Poster Rehabilitation Program this place boasted of? You had all this success with BP and company, but didn't even bother trying with BoomBoom.

what ever happened to glen foley? that boy had some issues & readin em made me feel like" hey joe things ain't so bad in comparison"

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this is the dumbest thing i've ever heard.

and im not enlightened? you're the one arguing about an elementary school banning ice cream, when theres hunger and poverty and all sorts of **** like that rampant in the world we live in.

when the book "How i fixed world hunger and poverty, and cured cancer," by Johnny Green Balls comes out, then i'll accept the fact that you're more enlightened than me. I'm not holding my breath for that to happen. maybe you can do something constructive about it and organize a big picket with the kids and stand outside the school with signs, until they give the ice cream back! and then you can push really hard for schools to extend recess by 5 mins, and maybe then we'll start getting ahead of other countries!!!!!

what you don't understand is first it's ice cream, then it's what to wear, then how to cut your hair and so on. Pretty soon it's like Russia! This is a free country!! Stand up for your rights! Or we'll be talking Hunger and Poverty in THIS country!!

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what you don't understand is first it's ice cream, then it's what to wear, then how to cut your hair and so on. Pretty soon it's like Russia! This is a free country!! Stand up for your rights! Or we'll be talking Hunger and Poverty in THIS country!!

The whole "what to wear" thing might not be that bad of an idea.

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forgot about this great ice cream thread....

kids can't even have an ice cream cone once a week anymore. maybe if schools focused on teaching rather than taking feel-good positions we wouldn't be losing ground to every other industrialized nations' students. i'd like to see a school ban illiteracy or ban passing students who fail to meet minimum competency for their grade level. maybe the reasons are kids are so fat is that schools are also afraid to let the little dumplings outside to play because it might foster "competitiveness" (can't have that) or--god forbid--a scraped knee.

Greenwich, Conn. School Bans Desserts

Principal Tired Of Seeing Healthy Lunches Thrown Away

Cindy Hsu GREENWICH, Conn. (CBS) ― More and more children are now facing obesity and Type-2 diabetes, so how do we get our kids to eat healthy, especially when they're not at home?

As CBS 2 HD recently found out, there's a school in Greenwich that's trying to change the trend by banning certain food.

When asked if his mother was to allow him to eat any foods he wanted, what he would eat, 8-year-old James Budkins didn't hesitate.

"Ice cream, bacon and fries," he said.

When asked what his favorite food is, 10-year-old Willie Budkins pulled no punches.

"Cookies, ice cream," he said.

Not in this cafeteria.

Glenville School in Greenwich is trying to turn things around, starting this year ice cream and cookies are no longer sold in the cafeteria. Instead they have fruit and yogurt as an option.

Parents were doing their best, sending their kids to school with healthy lunches or hoping they'd make decent choices if they were buying lunch at school. But when cookies and ice cream were offered two days a week, things changed in a hurry.

"I was seeing children racing to get in line, abandoning their lunch, to get to the cookies to get to the ice cream," PTA co-president Alicia Budkins said. "So hopefully that won't happen anymore. They'll sit down eat their good lunch, and then they'll go outside and play."

While a lot of parents love the idea, you can imagine how the kids feel.

"All the kids, especially all the boys in the 5th grade were shouting, 'we want ice cream, we want ice cream,'" 10-year-old Andrew Gilbert said.

Principal Marc D'Amico said he was tired of seeing healthy lunches thrown in the garbage, so kids could get to the sweet stuff, and says his new policy is fighting more than childhood obesity.

"When children have nutritionally sound lunches and breakfasts, they're better able to focus during the school day and their concentration levels are higher," D'Amico said.

While a lot of kids miss the treats, some are slowly coming around.

"I sort of wish we still had it, but what I do like about is it's getting kids to eat healthier," Gilbert said.

And that's the lesson teachers are hoping will last a lifetime.

Parents can pack anything they want in their kids' lunch, but they've all received the school's wellness policy that encourages them to go for healthy snacks.

http://wcbstv.com/local/glenville.school.greenwich.2.626542.html

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