Some Florida students will take home report cards on their fruit and vegetable consumption as part of a state program to combat obesity. And help Florida farmers sell those mangoes. I’m not clear if it’s just promotional literature exhorting kids to eat more healthy food, or an actual attempt to report on whether little Juan ate his carrot sticks and orange slices at lunch.
The Palm Beach Post observes:
Only 8 percent of the school district’s elementary schools have daily recess. About 20 percent offer the recommended 150 minutes of exercise weekly.
In elementary school, students don’t get recess? Or, apparently, phys ed. It would be easy to schedule a half-hour recess every day. It will be hard for teachers to change their students’ eating habits.
In Italy, primary schools report on how much, how well, and what variety little Giovanni eats for lunch.
We got little notes home each day when our child was in daycare, regarding what and when she ate lunch and snack, how long she napped, and so forth. My mom found the notes very useful when the kid went to stay with her, because she could keep her on her routine. That was before she could talk, of course.
Not giving elementary school students recess time though - that’s just criminal. Kids need to run around. They can’t sit in chairs all day.