Piehl, Norah Should Junk Food Be Sold in the Schools?

Piehl, Norah   Should Junk Food Be Sold in the Schools?  

Greenhaven Presssee Gale/Cengage     2011   122p   23.85  978-0-7377-5164-2            

hs/adult                     At Issue(Cengage/Gale/Greenhaven)          VG-BN                  

What's in your school lunch? TheNational School Lunch Program 

serves 31 million children in more than 100,000

schools.  Since 1/3 of the nation's children are overweight are school lunches

partly to blame?  While junk food has long been banned from official school

breakfast and lunch programs,  sweets and fatty foods are often available to

students via vending machines (often used to finance extracurricular

programs/sports).  Should schools offer only healthy treats for sale? 

     Piehl's engaging selection of essays explores the legal and ethical aspects

of this issue,  Teens will find this volume a handy source of contrasting

opinions that provide a springboard for research, class discussion, and debate. 

Especially helpful are the short article summaries preceding each essay. 

     With federal efforts to push junk food out of schools, this information is

topical and timely.      Welliver, Hilary