Maybe I missed something- no chocolate milk in schools?

Removing chocolate milk as an option is idiotic. Now those kids who would only drink chocolate milk won't drink anything. Did you know that the student HAS to pick up a milk product (even if they are lactose intolerant) when they buy the school lunch? So not only will kids not drink the milk but it will be wasted as well. Good job, government officials!!

This isn't true in our neck of the woods. In my kids' elementary school, they have a choice of 2% milk, chocolate milk, bottled water, and juice drink (This is the one that ticks me off - For pete's sake, at least make it pure juice. The kids don't know they're grabbing juice flavored corn syrup. I know this, because many kids have told me they're drinking delicious, healthy juice.). They're allowed to take 2 - any 2.

So my hunch is, this is a local thing. Could be your school board, could even be the meal providers. Let's not forget that in today's USA, most school meals are provided by companies that are hired by the school board. You may want to contact the food service provider and raise a little Holy Hell with them first, then go up the government chain.

I graduated high school in 2007 and we were required to take a milk before the wonderful lunch ladies would let us even leave the line. Most of it ended up in the trash while everyone went back up and bought an iced tea or something else.

When I was in high school, the only thing that I bought for lunch was a chocolate milk. Not saying that was a great idea to not eat anything else, but I wasn't really hungry and it filled me up. Chocolate milk is actually a pretty good recovery drink which can be used in place of the commercial recovery drinks (and is cheaper too).

Removing chocolate milk as an option is idiotic. Now those kids who would only drink chocolate milk won't drink anything. Did you know that the student HAS to pick up a milk product (even if they are lactose intolerant) when they buy the school lunch? So not only will kids not drink the milk but it will be wasted as well. Good job, government officials!!

This isn't true in our neck of the woods. In my kids' elementary school, they have a choice of 2% milk, chocolate milk, bottled water, and juice drink (This is the one that ticks me off - For pete's sake, at least make it pure juice. The kids don't know they're grabbing juice flavored corn syrup. I know this, because many kids have told me they're drinking delicious, healthy juice.). They're allowed to take 2 - any 2.

So my hunch is, this is a local thing. Could be your school board, could even be the meal providers. Let's not forget that in today's USA, most school meals are provided by companies that are hired by the school board. You may want to contact the food service provider and raise a little Holy Hell with them first, then go up the government chain.

I believe that they HAVE to take two if they buy lunch. I might be wrong about that but my husband and I attended a school breakfast with some of our kids and we were told that our kids HAD to pick two. Just stupid. Because one of my kids is lactose intolerant and he can't drink a water and juice. (I can't even drink a water and a juice in the time that's allotted for lunch.) It's just wasteful in my opinion.

And lumping all the kids that throw out the milk into families with lazy parenting is silly. Decades ago, when I was in school, I would only drink chocolate milk. If I was going to school these days, I'd be throwing out the mandatory plain milk as well. (I grew up on a dairy farm and the school milk tasted absolutely revolting to me.)

Great point!! That's a whole other can of worms: the time allotment for lunch!!! We expect our kids to shovel all this food in their mouths in twenty minutes overrriding their bodies signs of feeling full which in turn results in overweight kids.

Removing chocolate milk as an option is idiotic. Now those kids who would only drink chocolate milk won't drink anything. Did you know that the student HAS to pick up a milk product (even if they are lactose intolerant) when they buy the school lunch? So not only will kids not drink the milk but it will be wasted as well. Good job, government officials!!

This isn't true in our neck of the woods. In my kids' elementary school, they have a choice of 2% milk, chocolate milk, bottled water, and juice drink (This is the one that ticks me off - For pete's sake, at least make it pure juice. The kids don't know they're grabbing juice flavored corn syrup. I know this, because many kids have told me they're drinking delicious, healthy juice.). They're allowed to take 2 - any 2.

So my hunch is, this is a local thing. Could be your school board, could even be the meal providers. Let's not forget that in today's USA, most school meals are provided by companies that are hired by the school board. You may want to contact the food service provider and raise a little Holy Hell with them first, then go up the government chain.

I graduated high school in 2007 and we were required to take a milk before the wonderful lunch ladies would let us even leave the line. Most of it ended up in the trash while everyone went back up and bought an iced tea or something else.

When I was in high school, the only thing that I bought for lunch was a chocolate milk. Not saying that was a great idea to not eat anything else, but I wasn't really hungry and it filled me up. Chocolate milk is actually a pretty good recovery drink which can be used in place of the commercial recovery drinks (and is cheaper too).

My high school had a vending machine with sodas and juice and things like that. We were never forced to drink milk.

Now I want chocolate milk.

So many of the kids who eat school breakfast and lunch are low income and don't get enough calories at home. II probably would have been even skinnier than I was as a kid without the extra food I got in my free breakfast and lunch. If I got 20 extra calories and some sugar from chocolate milk - good!

I personally think that more money needs to be put to school lunches so that good, nutritious, filling food can be provided in schools, affordably for all students. Here in Finland, were I live now, school lunches are free, and free lunches are provided for children in the summertime too. Ok, the kids don't get chocolate milk but they can eat what they like.

I think that the crusade against chocolate milk is a smokescreen over the real problems of junk food in school lunches. Either I was really, really hungry as a kid or lunches look like crap now: https://www.flickr.com/photos/fedupwithlunch/6049666276

Removing chocolate milk is crazy. That was the only kind I could stomach when I was a kid. The white milk tasted like the cardboard container. The schools are going a little too far IMO. If you are a parent who wants to stand up to it, pack your child's lunch! I pack my kids' lunches about half the month.

Off subject, but lunch-related: My kids go to an elementary school (grades K-5) where they are given a plastic spoon and fork to eat with. Reasoning is the real silverware could be used as a weapon!!! (Yet, I guess it's okay to be throwing away all that plastic.)

On a positive note: In my community, any kids who live in poverty are sent home with a backpack full of food every week. :flowerforyou:

I always chuckle to myself at a generation of kids raised on chocolate milk in schools, now banning it for their own kids.

No kidding.

And we didn't have the obesity issue back then, yet now we're blaming the chocolate milk. WTH.

There is no logic.

Because when we were kids we did things like, oh, play outside? Now kids are on their computers, ipads, iphones, xbox etc. and they aren't as active as we were.

Exactly this. My kids are active and play outside, sometimes until 7 every night. And there is a noticeable difference in obesity even in my small community between the kids who are outside playing and the ones who stay inside to play games (or have parents who won't let them out to play with the neighborhood kids).

I always chuckle to myself at a generation of kids raised on chocolate milk in schools, now banning it for their own kids.

No kidding.

And we didn't have the obesity issue back then, yet now we're blaming the chocolate milk. WTH.

There is no logic.

Because when we were kids we did things like, oh, play outside? Now kids are on their computers, ipads, iphones, xbox etc. and they aren't as active as we were.

Exactly! The food isn't the issue. It's the lack of physical activity.

When I was in high school, the only thing that I bought for lunch was a chocolate milk. Not saying that was a great idea to not eat anything else, but I wasn't really hungry and it filled me up. Chocolate milk is actually a pretty good recovery drink which can be used in place of the commercial recovery drinks (and is cheaper too).

I ate ice cream and Little Debbie snacks for lunch at school. Then I went with friends after school and ate pizza, chicken wings, Wendy's, McDonald's. Burger King ...

And people at school started rumors I was anorexic because I was so skinny. (Strangely, the main person who did that was smaller than I was ...)

I drink chocolate milk after runs for recovery which is awesome. And lunch would be the perfect time for them to have it.

But omg, it has evil sugar and we must save the children from sugar!

Last year the school asked me to stop giving my boys chewable Vitamin C because that was dangerous. I was speechless when they notified me of the possibility that they might share with a kid who might be allergic. To Vitamin C. :sick: Though I was given the option of sending it to the nurse if I could provide a doctor's note that says they can have it.

Removing chocolate milk as an option is idiotic. Now those kids who would only drink chocolate milk won't drink anything. Did you know that the student HAS to pick up a milk product (even if they are lactose intolerant) when they buy the school lunch? So not only will kids not drink the milk but it will be wasted as well. Good job, government officials!!

My son is lactose intolerant. He had to get a Dr.'s note EVERY year so that he could get juice instead of milk. I didn't know this until after he went for a few days drinking nothing at lunch since he wasn't allowed juice. I went to the school, and they hate it too. Or at least my sons school did. But they have people breathing down their necks too. Please government, work on things that you can help and leave our schools alone!

My daughter's school gets chocolate milk once a week. Seems sensible compromise to me. If she drank it every day I wouldn't be happy, but once a week, who cares?

So because you don't want your child having it every day, no one else's children can have it available?