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Constitutional rights?
By PoohBear

We are allowed to tell the parents what clothes the children may wear to school (dress code) and what items they can have in their backpack (nothing that could harm another), how is asking them to bring a healthy snack any
different? And I never tell my students they cannot eat whatever they brought to school, I just limit it to lunchtime after they have eaten whatever the parent has sent as a "main course". I have to live with these children all day and some of them are "off the wall" after consuming a high sugar treat. I think it is within my rights to make my classroom as productive an atmosphere as possible

and having children who are not concentrating because of their parents food choices makes that very difficult.

nor should they be embarrassed by teachers who single out their unhealthy snacks as being wrong or bad choices. Is a piece of fruit or a ring ding worth giving a child these bad feelings over?
I have never found that telling a child their snack is not healthy is embarrassing for them. You just do it in a cheerful, silly way and tell them they can have it after they have had something healthy. After a few weeks of healthy snacks only, I have found that my students get very excited about healthy foods and are very eager to show me how they are eating properly. And, remember, it does not have to be fresh, so the argument that they can't get to the store regularly really doesn't work.