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- Crittenden County Elementary School Is Latest School In Area To Restrict Nuts To Protect The Health Of Those With Nut Allergies
This story has been updated to include information about other Western Kentucky schools with nut restrictions. Peanut butter and jelly sandwiches are a lunchbox staple for many American children, but they can also pose a serious health risk to those...
- Poll: Ky. Parents Think Children's School Lunches Are Very Or Somewhat Nutritious, But They Want More Scratch-made Options
Kentucky Health News Most Kentucky parents think school lunches are nutritious, but should offer more made from-scratch options, according to the latest Kentucky Health Issues Poll. The poll, taken Oct.8 through Nov. 6, found that 67 percent of Kentucky...
- Casey County High School, Which Will Be Smoke-free Next Year, Curbs Smoking By Locking The Restrooms Most Used By Smokers
For two weeks in February, Casey County High School students who wanted to smoke in one of the restrooms were unable to do so because they were locked, Editor Larry Rowell reports for the Casey County News. Principal Josh Blevins said he locked...
- Boone County School Bans All Food At School Birthday Celebrations, Partly In An Effort To Combat Childhood Obesity
Burlington Elementary School in Boone County has banned all food during birthday celebrations, including ice cream and cake, as part of its new wellness policy, Jessica Brown reports for The Cincinnati Enquirer. Celebrations are still allowed and can...
- School Nurses Are An Unfunded Mandate For Schools, Which Are Picking Up More Of Their Cost As Health Department Budgets Shrink
Marion County nurse Renee Schooling helps Levi Hardin, a Marion County first grader with diabetes, check his blood sugar. (Lebanon Enterprise Photo by Stevie Lowery)Kentucky school nurses are stretched thin across the districts they serve and...
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Trimble County parents protest 'humiliating' treatment of students whose school lunchroom accounts are in the red
Parents in Trimble County are demanding that the county schools stop serving cheese sandwiches to students whose lunchroom accounts are in the red, Kayla Vanover of WAVE-TV in Louisville reports.
"Embarrassing, humiliating and 'flat out wrong' is how parents described the school's policy to take a student's lunch right off the lunch table and toss it because the child's parents had not replenished their account to cover the meal," Vanover reports.
On May 20, Lori Ritchie's daughter "sat down to eat, but her hot meal was thrown away and she was given a cheese sandwich with a side," Vanover reports. "Ritchie said she doesn't blame the workers, but she said the policy needed to be changed a long time ago. Wednesday, a special called public meeting with the school board allowed other parents and community members to voice their opinions on the current policy, in hopes an agreement could be made."
Doug Joyce, grandfather of a student, told the board, "It is bullying. We throw kids out of school or reprimand them for bulling, so why should we let grown-ups bully kids like that?" A board member, unidentified in Vanover's story, said "We don't want any child to be embarrassed or receive an alternative meal, so we are really going to beef up the communication."
"Embarrassing, humiliating and 'flat out wrong' is how parents described the school's policy to take a student's lunch right off the lunch table and toss it because the child's parents had not replenished their account to cover the meal," Vanover reports.
On May 20, Lori Ritchie's daughter "sat down to eat, but her hot meal was thrown away and she was given a cheese sandwich with a side," Vanover reports. "Ritchie said she doesn't blame the workers, but she said the policy needed to be changed a long time ago. Wednesday, a special called public meeting with the school board allowed other parents and community members to voice their opinions on the current policy, in hopes an agreement could be made."
Doug Joyce, grandfather of a student, told the board, "It is bullying. We throw kids out of school or reprimand them for bulling, so why should we let grown-ups bully kids like that?" A board member, unidentified in Vanover's story, said "We don't want any child to be embarrassed or receive an alternative meal, so we are really going to beef up the communication."
- Crittenden County Elementary School Is Latest School In Area To Restrict Nuts To Protect The Health Of Those With Nut Allergies
This story has been updated to include information about other Western Kentucky schools with nut restrictions. Peanut butter and jelly sandwiches are a lunchbox staple for many American children, but they can also pose a serious health risk to those...
- Poll: Ky. Parents Think Children's School Lunches Are Very Or Somewhat Nutritious, But They Want More Scratch-made Options
Kentucky Health News Most Kentucky parents think school lunches are nutritious, but should offer more made from-scratch options, according to the latest Kentucky Health Issues Poll. The poll, taken Oct.8 through Nov. 6, found that 67 percent of Kentucky...
- Casey County High School, Which Will Be Smoke-free Next Year, Curbs Smoking By Locking The Restrooms Most Used By Smokers
For two weeks in February, Casey County High School students who wanted to smoke in one of the restrooms were unable to do so because they were locked, Editor Larry Rowell reports for the Casey County News. Principal Josh Blevins said he locked...
- Boone County School Bans All Food At School Birthday Celebrations, Partly In An Effort To Combat Childhood Obesity
Burlington Elementary School in Boone County has banned all food during birthday celebrations, including ice cream and cake, as part of its new wellness policy, Jessica Brown reports for The Cincinnati Enquirer. Celebrations are still allowed and can...
- School Nurses Are An Unfunded Mandate For Schools, Which Are Picking Up More Of Their Cost As Health Department Budgets Shrink
Marion County nurse Renee Schooling helps Levi Hardin, a Marion County first grader with diabetes, check his blood sugar. (Lebanon Enterprise Photo by Stevie Lowery)Kentucky school nurses are stretched thin across the districts they serve and...