The parents are obviously to blame for not overseeing what children eat at home, but it's worth noting that a lot of schools do not closely monitor what children eat when in their care.
At my school for example, we had a dinner hall which had a salad bar but that's it healthy food-wise. Everything else was chips, pizzas, sausage rolls, roast dinners, fattening sandwiches, cakes, crisps (the list goes on). It also had 3 vending machines around the school selling cans of fizzy drink, crisps and chocolate. However 3 years ago they took all the vending machines away and only had one that sold snack-a-jacks and smoothies (which, may I say were 80p and £1) and stopped selling the packaged cakes at break time, also they had one "no chips" lunch time out of five, ONE! They still sold chocolate crunch, burgers, teacakes, pizza slices at the breaktimes. Also, children are allowed to leave the premisis at dinner times, every few years we had a slip for parents to sign concerning leaving at lunch time but no-one ever got asked for proof of being allowed to leave as a set of gates were always open for cars to leave and come in. A 5 minute walk up the road there's a row of shops which has 2 chip shops, about 6 takeaways (indian, 2 chinese and about 3 pizza, a cooplands and a sandwich shop that sells those HUGE breadcakes with bacon and other breakfast foods in for quite cheaply. This row of shops is RAMMED at lunch time. I know this is only a personal example but in my experience some schools are no way strict enough on the opportunities there are to leave school at dinner time. There's far too much opportunity to eat rubbish at school, and for a lot of kids it's like "time off" from eating the healthy stuff at home, so parents can't always be blamed.
Come to think of it, when I started secondary school in 2000 we had a burger van ON SITE of the school. Jamie Oliver would have had a field day ...
Going back to the parents for a minute, I think it's awful when parents preach about healthy eating yet eat rubbish themselves. It sets a terrible example.
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