Ban Sugar from Schools!

If parents want to have the freedom to exercise their personal responsibility in making choices about how much sugar their children eat, then parents can feed their kids sweets in the morning and refill them with sweets when the children arrive home after school. 

We don’t let kids chew gum in school. We also don’t let them curse, fight, or surf the web during class because it distracts and disrupts the education process. People understand and agree on that. Those rules were made to help teachers and students do their jobs better.

I’ve never heard someone say that preventing children from chewing gum or picking fights in school was an infringement on their personal freedom. So why do people get upset about the idea of banning sweets from schools? Because people don’t consider sugar to be that unhealthy, let alone addictive. If parents knew beyond a doubt that sugary foods were substantially impairing their child’s abilities then they’d be all for banning the stuff from schools. They might even stop purchasing sweets for home consumption. Yet plenty of people think sugar is a major food group that is okay to consume in moderation just like cigarettes, drugs, and alcohol (all banned from schools).

Why do we continue to eat something when we know it’s bad for us? Peer pressure? Availability? Addiction? Brainwashing? Ignorance?

The sugar ban suggestion made it to the municipal level by way of concerned parents and education professionals. The idea that there is an evil politician removing our children’s freedom was spun by PR firms hired by food manufacturing companies. Still, some parents believe the removal of flavored milk from cafeteria menus is a big government attempt to take away our right to choose. These people believe in choice—when it comes to strawberry vs. chocolate, that is.

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