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I for one think that they should replace them with juice and fruit. Can you believe that at my kids school they give them candy for good behavior and for making good grades? It's crazy.

While we cannot police everything that kids eat or drink, it seems to me that some kids are sensitive to soda and sweets. Teachers may have a more trying time if children are sensitive to caffeine and sweets. Then, too, we are supposed to be educating the children. Perhaps that should include helping them to learn to choose healthier snacks. Maybe it would make more sense to have dried fruit, nuts, or other snacks. Simply saying we are going to put juice in the vending machines isn't enough unless you also verify that the juice is real juice instead of this mixed with corn syrup stuff people call juice. My preference, however, would to be increasing the price of sodas and sweets but including healthier snacks and drink choices at lower prices. As I see it, if you take out the soda and candy machines at schools, kids might see that as tyrannical and controlling. They might rebell. On the other hand, if you have soda machines dispensing cans of soda for 75 cents each and juice machines dispensing juice for 25 cents each, the kids might start to choose the healthier can.

At first I didn't understand what the big deal was about that stuff. After learning some cutting edge information on what we are putting in our bodies, I understand better now. The schools should not have had these things in the first place. They also need to do something about the quality of their own food. But soda and candy are not helpful during the day. When I was in school, I rarely even looked in that direction. But these days children live and crave for the jetsons type foods like Fast foods, microwave, high salt, high sugar, and energy boosting stuff. Soda and candy was just the beginning.

I think there should also be a vending machine for biscuits and junk foods. It will give the students other options specially during their vacant periods. It's cool to have different varieties.

this may shock many people but i think that soda at least should be left in schools. students sometimes have a hard time focusing during school and that little bit of jolt helps them. everyone thinks that having soda machines in schools is what causes the obesity problem in our children, but i think that the lack of physical activity in school is what is the cause. these days the elementary kids as well as the older students arent getting recess or gym because they have to take remedial classes. for many kids the activity that they get in school is the only activity they get and if you replace that with a remedial class then that lowers that chance.