Commonsense prevails on school healthy eating

Commonsense prevails on school healthy eating

 says NZSTA

The President of the New Zealand School Trustees Association Lorraine Kerr says the Minister of Education is to be congratulated on her announcement that the requirement on boards to ensure that only healthy food and drink is available at schools is to be amended.
 
“Commonsense has prevailed,” says Lorraine Kerr.  “While NZSTA has no problem regarding the general policy around healthy eating and drinking, the Association has always believed that the regulation that specifically required boards to make sure only healthy options were available was unnecessary.”

She says there is already a more general requirement on schools to promote healthy eating and drinking. 

“We think that is all that is needed.  Boards have commonsense too.

“At the practical level, many schools could see that their efforts would be better placed focused on the more important task of improving learning outcomes for all students, rather than becoming the food police.”

The removal of the requirement on boards of trustees will be welcomed, says Lorraine Kerr

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