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Letter: Elementary school beverage container regulations

By Lisa Blackaby

I recently had a conversation with my lactose-intolerant grandson about taking a bottle of water to school for his lunch. We discussed the pros and cons of the different options of plastic, glass and stainless steel.

A few days later I found the perfect child sized stainless steel bottle for his lunch bag. He was excited to use his bottle that would keep his water cold, not leach chemicals into his water and not break. He proudly packed his lunch with his shiny new bottle filled with water and headed to school. This is no different than what many of us did as children before plastics became so abundant. We took our glass bottles or thermos filled with our beverage of choice no questions asked.

Not so for the children of this time. He was told only clear containers allowed at our schools. The children might just have fruit juice or koolaid in that opaque environmentally friendly container.

We could use a little common sense when it comes to creating these rules in our schools. --Lisa




This story was posted on 2019-09-12 05:30:16
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