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Friday, June 9, 2006

Fast-Food Would Be a No-No for Parents in Pa. School District


Parents who visit their children at lunch would be required to eat school food rather than bring the children fast-food lunches under a proposed wellness policy in the Palmyra Area School District. That doesn't set well with some parents. Lori Swisher, who has three children at Forge Road Elementary School, agreed the schools don't need soda machines or daily doughnuts, but bristled at 'one more government restriction.' (Los Angeles Times, Friday)

Just an extension of the logic of government schooling.

FEE Timely Classic
The Origins of the Public School by Robert P. Murphy