why not ask the nurse where she got her information? would be the best place to start.

probably, you need to read your school wellness policy, wahtever the school baord decided about foods, is what the principal has to enforce.

the law just got the schl boards to make up a wellness policy, whats in it specifically, was up to them.

many schools have a loophole -- only affects foods served BY THE SCHOOL during school day, and nothing extracurricular.

nope.. nothing to do with NCLB. Here's a little blurb about it:

Child Nutrition Act requires districts to put "wellness" programs in place by 2006-07 school year

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The reauthorized federal Child Nutrition Act (CNA) requires all local school districts to put "wellness" programs in place by the beginning of the 2006-07 school year. According to Brenda Z. Greene, the director of school health programs for the National School Boards Association, while the CNA spells out some of the components that must be included in "wellness" programs, school districts are waiting for detailed guidance from the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

Although school districts were supposed tohave a plan in place by now, it seems like the act is very vague as to who has authority to say what.

Our district still has no clear guidelines, although we were told last year that all those parties, fundraisers with cookie dough and candy bake sales, etc.. could be eliminated. Our Board stressed all summer about the what-ifs and scrambled to have a plan B for all of our events.. turns out after the school committee and superintendent made a plan, the district's "legal dept" shredded the policy and so now we are in limbo, still with no definitive policy.

has nothing to do w NCLB. search wellness policy on these boards and you will find the law that pertains to the changes. has to do w the NSLP, natl school lunch program - funded schools only.

I was told by our district's head nurse that "No Child Left Behind" regulations will require school districts to ban sweets and other unhealthy choices from ALL school events. She said that eventually any school-connected event, even classroom holiday parties or our PTO's back-to-school ice cream social, will not be allowed to serve "sweets" - and we'll be required to post the nutritional value of any permitted foods.

Does anyone know if this is true? I'm all for improving the school lunch menus (yuck!) and offering healthy alternatives at events (as well as being sensitive toward any food allergies), but completely banning occasional treats for special activities, including PTO fundraisers, seems a bit "Big Brother" to me. :eek:

JHB--we offer dill pickles every time, pretzels, water, juice, nachos with cheese and sometimes offer fruit, dependingon what is in season. We do try to take it into consideration, but have been lucky so far that we haven't had the issue forced on us yet. When we do fundraisers at school during lunch time, we offer cupcakes, pickles, nutrigrain bars (which go surprisingly fast!!) and try to have decent options.
What have you come up with doing?

For field day and snacks for CRCT and ITBS, we only do fruit or peanut butter crackers. the teachers had a fit because of the fruit durign the testing, but got over it. We offered bananas, grapes and apple slices. We discussed that although we had to cut it up, it was healthier for the kids and way more hydrating (especially for field day). When they don't have the option of junk stuff, they pick the good stuff.

Same with burgers. You can do the boca burgers - once the condiments are on - you don't notice the difference.