Well, I said I would post my approach on why sodas should be allowed in schools. Here it is.
Why Sodas should be Allowed in Schools
Kids like tea. Kids like juice. Kids like a lot of things, including sodas. Yet sodas are banned from schools, be it bought in the lunch room or brought in a lunch box. They are banned from these bubbly beverages because they have sugar and calories, and they get you hyped up. Some have brought up diet sodas, yet those supposedly have chemicals that rot your teeth. I speak from the side of the table saying that Colas and Pepsis should be allowed.
First off, why is it bad they are unhealthy? In the lunch room they sell ice cream, they sell cupcakes, and I’m pretty sure a cupcake has much more sugar and calories then sodas. Kids buy these treats because they are allowed to by their parents, or they are rebelling, but that’s not the point. The point is if these parents allow their kids to drink sodas, let them! I see no reason why we shouldn’t let these kids drink what they want, because they’ll just go home and drink twice as much! Also, sodas are so popular, one school in the United States banned sodas after having served them for a few years. Because of the economic impact, they had to take away the basketball team for a year, then they saved up the money to bring it back in terrible uniform, (not un-stylish, as in dirty) and many children then left the school for reasons suspected to be the banning of sodas, because beyond that it wasn’t much of a great school.
One of the biggest “problems” with sodas in schools has always been sugar rush/sugar crash. But children get tired after most lunches, and soda would help. As for earlier lunches, therefore you would face a sugar crash, that would make a good wind down, since most kids are excited at the end of the day. Also, it would make for a calm bus ride home for bus riders. Sure some are tired at the end , after all the work, but the last class is not normally all that important. And if it is, schools prepare for not fully absorbed information. It’s called homework. That’s what it’s for, making sure you truly learn your lessons. And you can’t stop kids from having a sugar crash after that, huh?
My point is, kids already have sugary treats, and they won’t be healthier because they can’t drink a Mountain Dew, so just let them be happy.
In closing, health is not manipulated by the school board. So if anything these giant hands taking away kids loves, is just aggravating them, making them hate school more. Hating school is definitely not a positive attribute in the classroom, wouldn’t you say? Soda just gets out heads off our desks, makes us happier, and I’ve been through both, it really does make a difference in the children’s happiness. So, choose people, happiness, energy to the perfect degree, money, and an overall better experience, or the same hated school system we have today.
-Cormorant5
Oh yeah, and my dad's a lawyer. Just try and sue me!
