Erik David Forssen (Edfskins)
Junior Member
Username: Edfskins
Post Number: 2
Registered: 11-2005
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Rewarding children with unhealthy foods in school undermines our efforts to teach them about good nutrition. It encourages the overconsumption of unhealthy foods, contributes to poor eating habits, increases preference for sweets, and teaches them to connect food to emotion.
Currently, only Alabama and the District of Columbia prohibit the use of food to reward children for good behavior or academic performance, and I'm curious if any of you are striving to make such changes at your school?
I notice that the Ellensburg, Washington's recently adopted Wellness Policy, posted by Steven Jeffries, does include a teacher to student incentive paragraph which essentially frowns upon the use of food as a reward, and I suggest you push for a similar reference in the adoption of your wellness policy.
Do you think that moving away from the use of food as a reward is a step in the right direction? How would you convince your principal and staff to make such a change?
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