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Children don't need any caffeine.
Edit: Buncha 12 year olds with a Mountain Dew habit cashing in lunch money to buy downvotes in here.
Yeah. I wouldn't serve any caffeinated drinks to a horde of children. I suppose the limit on caffeine must mostly be in regards to colas.
Or tea?
Botttled iced tea is mostly sugar, with just enough caffeine to make it addictive. It doesn't belong in schools.
You know there is classic hot tea?
Freshly brewed black tea in hot weather is absolutely brilliant. I've got into tea trinking during a holiday in Sicily.
Elementary school age kids don't drink hot tea usually. Maybe in England, but that seems like providing kettles for all the kids might be a bit of a burn hazard.
Nowhere in this article is indicated that these changes are only for elementary schools.
And you go to school until you're 17/18 years old. It's perfectly reasonable for them to have a tea or a coffee
Then they can take themselves to a cafe and buy a tea or coffee. This is about what all the schools are permitted to serve the students. Yes, some are 17 or 18, and some are 5 or 6 years old. Sugar and caffeine are the two most addictive substances widely available to children, and few things manufactured are as profitable as caffeinated sugar water. Put it in a bottle with fancy colors and a cool logo, have some social media influencers plug the drink, and then find a captive audience that's sleep deprived, facing extreme pressure to perform, and too young and impulsive to make long-term healthy decisions. That's called a business model.
I don't know about schools in Spain, but in France you can't easily leave school premises during school hours
Even coffee?
People can also drink water, you know, like there's in the toilet?
That's what we had at school, I don't remember any complaints.
Yes, energy drinks shouldn't be sold to children. An age limit that prevents selling to people below 16 seems like a good idea to me.
Some countries do that already and I wouldn‘t recommend Cola to children under 12 either.
I'm not suggesting we start carding everyone who buys a soda, but schools are a controlled environment. Just don't sell caffeinated beverages at the schools.
Just ask for ID like alcohol
Nobody needs caffeine. It doesnt give you any energy, just squeezes more out of your body when you want it.
Instead, school should start WAY later, 9:00 is a good time. I had many "bus kids" in my class, who stood up at 5:30 to get to school. Fucked up
This is the way. My caffeine habit started in middle school because I was needing to be up stupid early for the bus, missing breakfast, and passing out halfway through first period.
9 am is the official starting time of basically every single education institution in Spain, from nursery to university.
There are "early morning care" from 8, or even 7:30, but that's optional and basically just playing or breakfast.
Why would fish be better than something like legumes?
In general, school lunch programs tend to be a subsidy to the regional agriculture and animal farming sectors, a guaranteed market for their products. Few places do school food well (actually trying to feed children with nutritious food and to teach them how to eat well), Japan is probably the most famous of those.
Did they also increase budgets to pay for this?
It's great and we should copy it, but you also need to put the money behind these things so the food is edible at the end
This is Spain, we grow some amazing food here - if anything this is going to be cheaper than stuffing them full of preservatives and pizza.
For reference my work canteen is 4,50€ for lunch, but there's usually too much good food in a serving so I always take some of it home, and it's good stuff :-)