Schools should have to offer nutritious food. They have been doing so successfully since I was a child. How depressing for the overweight students. "Alright kids, no more candy and sodas here anymore, because of an obesity problem in this country." At that point, those poor kids who are picked on for their weight will become harassed because their "fat asses" ruined it for everyone. These people don't think!
That might be a bit of a stretch. I don't recall the administration of any K-12 school I attended ever explaining their reasons for doing anything (to the parents, maybe, but even that was rare). Though, even if the schools did explain the change, surely they'd be a bit more delicate than shouting "blame the fatties!" over the intercom system.
I agree that they wouldn't be so crass about the whole thing, but kids are smart. It's not hard to figure out why a school might ban candy bars and sodas, then to assign blame to those they think are the cause of it. That sounds rather child-like to me, does it not?
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