Students fight back against chocolate milk ban

[The Straight Story]

Students fight back against chocolate milk ban

MAPLE VALLEY, Wash. -- A local school district has removed chocolate milk from its menus, but students aren't giving up their sugary drink without a fight.

The Tahoma School District has spent the past three years reworking its lunch menu to offer students healthier foods. It already did away with canned fruit, and now officials are taking chocolate milk off the menu.

"Chocolate milk was looked at because it's something that kids would drink every day, and there's a lot of sugar in chocolate milk," said district spokesman Kevin Patterson.

Angry students at Rock Creek Elementary School have voiced their displeasure with the ban in the form of a petition asking the school board to bring back the chocolate milk.

http://www.komonews.com/news/local/Students-fight-back-against-chocolate-milk-ban-134155593.html

[ellisonz]

1. Good for the school district.

They even have the option of soy milk...mmm.

[pnwmom]

2. My pediatrician said chocolate milk was preferable to no milk.

Which is the likely outcome for many kids.

[alphafemale]

4. My daughter never would drink regular milk.

She would actually gag at it. It was her pediatrician that actually made the suggestion of chocolate milk.

Her dad was the same way. He always drank chocolate milk.

Her brother and I love milk and rarely flavor it.

My daughter did switch to soy and rice milk - plain/vanilla - in her early teens though.

[JVS]

3. When I was a kid we all drank the chocolate milk because it was the only kind of milk that...

didn't taste totally ass after sitting out on the counter for 2 hours while the lunch ladies made the meal. I was happy to drink regular milk and 2% at home without ever getting chocolate in it, but slightly chilled milk was awful without the flavoring.

[no_hypocrisy]

5. In the Sixties, I got around no chocolate milk by bringing powdered chocolate

in a baggie in my lunch bag and mixing it with the milk.

[The Straight Story]

6. Now if someone would just invent powdered vodka, work would be much more fun

:)

[canoeist52]

8. I like this solution.

It puts choice back in parent's hands and the school doesn't have to promote the sugar/syrup industry.

[HockeyMom]

7. My daughter was/is allergic to Dairy AND

Soy Milk. She drank juice or water in school. At home I gave her Goats Milk since that is all she could tolerate. I doubt schools will be having Goats Milk. It is very expensive.

I worked with a little boy whose mother only gave him whole milk at home which the school didn't serve (skim only). The only milk he would drink at school was the chocolate skim milk.

[shraby]

9. I've never liked plain milk as far back as I have memories.

Chocolate milk or flavored milk I can drink but plain is horrid and 2% or skim is like drinking medicine.

[surrealAmerican]

10. It's good to see that the students are organizing.

They could learn a lot from this.