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school milk

longman

News this morning is that Michael Gove is reintroducing compulsory school milk in schools, as well as banning chocolates and sweets from sale in schools, and banning cakes and biscuits, except in a restricted form at lunch times, and banning all fried food.

My understanding is school milk used to cause problems for people on the spectrum because of the way it was served up, and the circumstances.

The food restrictions are also bound to cause problems.

I thought I'd raise the question as others may have immediate concerns.

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  • I do like the term clotpole.

    I'm not sure how schools are going to police this when high school children can bring in their own food to consume.  Both of my childrens high schools (3 altogether) have kids everywhere as there is never enough room in a canteen.  At the current school that my daughter should be going, they eat in corridors, classrooms as well as outside and that isn't one big space easy to patrol.

    The other point I'd like to make, my ASD daughter finds eating in front of other people difficult and will tend to eat things that look 'cool' like a bag of crisps.  I can relate to not selling junk in canteens but you cant force kids to eat certain foods and if they want to promote health, they need to spend more time educating the positive aspects of healthy eating alongside restricting what they can't have.

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  • I do like the term clotpole.

    I'm not sure how schools are going to police this when high school children can bring in their own food to consume.  Both of my childrens high schools (3 altogether) have kids everywhere as there is never enough room in a canteen.  At the current school that my daughter should be going, they eat in corridors, classrooms as well as outside and that isn't one big space easy to patrol.

    The other point I'd like to make, my ASD daughter finds eating in front of other people difficult and will tend to eat things that look 'cool' like a bag of crisps.  I can relate to not selling junk in canteens but you cant force kids to eat certain foods and if they want to promote health, they need to spend more time educating the positive aspects of healthy eating alongside restricting what they can't have.

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