Lunchroom Rules Gone Too Far?

Some Texas schoolchildren are complaining their state’s new lunchroom rules are too stringent. A few are even circulating a petition to persuade the Texas Department of Agriculture to let up a little.

“Teachers used to be able to give us chocolate and hard candy for rewards and now that can’t do that sort of thing,” said Allison Talbot, an eighth-grader at Canyon Vista Middle School and one of the petition signers. “They’re not allowed to let us eat those in other classrooms and now they have to come up with alternative ways to reward us in the classroom.”

So far, the petition drive has garnered 188 signatures.

Posted by Jim Langcuster at September 10, 2004 02:45 PM | TrackBack