Like it or not, it's not the school's job or responsibility to make food choices for kids that bring their food from home. That is up to the parent to make those decisions. The only thing the school should have any say over, is what they provide.
Shouldn't the school at least teach the children at length what food is good and bad for them? I mean the school teaching. Like teaching is what schools are invented for.
Sure, I'd have NO problem with the schools teaching about healthy lifestyle choices in the classroom. But not to take away a students lunch that was brought from home because it didn't meet with the schools expectations. If the parent packed the lunch, then that is the parents responsibility. IF, IF, IF the school were to ever step in.......would be if the parent consistently packed candy, chips & soda or crap like that with absolutely NO nutritional value. But even then start with a call or note to the parent of their concerns.
No because the OP says this thread is not about throwing away the lunch. More importantly, both the school and the parent is programmed to junk you to crap, as long as they are all insured to do it.
OK.......but I still agree the school should focus more on educating the kids about healthy lifestyle choices, which is also in agreement with the OP.
So it's time for education to EDUCATED kids. The problem is, the govt fund education and it also seems to want large companies to sell their crap to the people, because politicians aren't looking out for the interests of the people.
In todays world it's really hard for parents NOT to know atleast something about proper nutrition vs fats & sugar. The school nor the government can make those choices for you without being Communist or authoritarian. Like it or not, this is the USA and people do still have rights to make their own choices for what they & their family eat.
In other words.........they can EDUCATE but they can't FORCE it.