According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
· Childhood obesity has more than tripled in the past 30 years.
· In 2008, more than one third of children and adolescents were overweight or obese.
Consider the above facts and that some schools to save money are eliminating physical education for juniors and seniors. I want your input as parents and teachers on the policy in many schools to provide alternative lunches as many students were not eating the regular lunches. Some alternative lunches include salads but most were pizza, hamburgers, and French fries. Along with these lunches, schools provide snack machines and drink machines. The schools believe that many students were not getting lunch prior to this policy going into effect. Also, the profits were used for programs at the school that did not have traditional funding, such as school clubs.
