To answer the poster who is "immune to junk food":
Originally posted by Legalizer
Food allergies and the lingering effects of them can be and are often misdiagnosed as ADD/ADHD.
Perhaps you don't have food allergies.
Can you eat fish? I get hives if I eat fish.
Can you eat cantaloupe? I love the stuff, gives me massive stomach cramps though.
Here's a story about public education, children and awful food reactions:
I visited my daughter's kindergarten one day for "Daddy and Donuts".
The teacher serves some "fruit drink", chocolate and sugar coated donuts.
For the dad's their is a pot of coffee, nutrasweet, and non dairy creamer, nobody touches this stuff.
Within minutes of the children consuming the donuts and drinks I had five kids CLIMBING on me, literally. Their fathers were right there, at least
for the kids that still had fathers, but they chose to climb all over a relative stranger, and were acting like total animals. At one point two of the
kids want more 'fruit drink', and I make a comment that perhaps we should be serving them morphine. The teacher looks at me oddly, the fathers that
are paying attention give me the "you know it" look.
After an hour or so all the Dad's except me left, instantly all the girls, and a few of the boys burst into tears. My daughter was relatively calm
and indifferent, even when I ran home for an hour and a half.
Two hours later was time to travel with my daughter on a little gifted and talented field trip. All was going well. But during the bus ride I saw all
the color and life drain from my daughter's face, she stopped being involved in the conversation, and just looked 'bad'.
She was supposed to eat her school provided lunch at the event.
I look at the lunch in the bag, its a 'fruit drink', an apple, and a corn syrup filled peanut butter and jelly (not fruit anything) pita substance.
I'm pretty pissed they are feeding my kid this stuff. I'm tempted to run out of the building to find food but I'm in an unfamiliar location and
don't know what will happen if I do that.
I know she must be starving so I open the package for her and try to conceal my rage.
While doing so, she grabs at it, it falls on the ground, and she instantly goes into a tantrum fit that lasts about an hour, maybe more while the
other kids eat their corn syrup peanut butter jelly(no fruit) lunch thing, on the floor, then begin watching the presentation.
More than half of these well behaved 'gifted and talented' kids start becoming something else, they can't stay focused on the lecture, are
fidgeting, talking and getting in trouble.
The gifted and talented..whatever she was...is being a total bitch to them and especially to my daughter. My daughter is the youngest G&T kid ever in
the district, only 6, and she is degraded and treated terribley by the...whatever that ladies job is...and the beast tries to convince me to come to
some meeting where they will discuss a book that will tell me how to raise my child. I wanted to kill her right there for the way she spoke to my
child, and was now speaking to me like I knew nothing about my own kid, but felt an obligation to not upset the children. The G&T hag was trying to
convince me my daughter was "playing" me. I knew my daughter was suffering from a sugar withdrawal after eating the crap she had during "Daddies
and Donuts", coupled with hunger.
The nerve of some fat windbag to tell a father that has spent every day of six years with his daughter that his child is manipulating him is beyond
reproach.
Finally I get my daughter to eat some fruit loops...yeah thats the snack the gifted and talented program provided for the kids. Her blood sugar level
stabilizes, and she is normalized again.
Meanwhile the lecture has ended and the G&T kids are bouncing off the walls.
Some laughing at nothing at all, some of them zoning out, some throwing stuff at each other, some of them have their heads on the tables (now that
they are off the floor), lots of really loud nonsensical screeching and hollering.
These were not the same kids that got off the bus with me.
A few of them are picked up by their parents early because they are physically ill.
My daughter was totally normal the rest of the day, we walked a mile to find some food after the event and she didn't complain once.
I removed my daughter from public education within two weeks, because:
1) the teachers give them candy and junk food as a snack
DAILY
2) school lunch program is poison
3) the teachers are ignorant in all kinds of ways
4) every day was a struggle to get my daughter to go to school, she started to complain of stomach and head aches as soon as I woke her up and said
"time for school"
5) only four of the fifteen kids in the kindergarten could read
6) the teacher of the second grade class they bumped her into was treating her harshly because my daughter didn't know how to act like a nine year
old.
6) she was getting respitory, eye, and ear infections at least once a month for the five months she was there
7) due to missing school from these illnesses, and psychological "too sick for school" reactions the school began to threaten us with some kind of
investigation by department of family services.
That was March, my daughter hasn't been ill in any way shape or form since.
I think we might have a difficult day once a month at most due to her "I'm the queen" attitude, which usually takes less than five or ten minutes
to compress back to kid size ego.
I hope you got something out of my little story.
[edit on 9-8-2007 by Legalizer]
Suing someone over a post made on the internet? Especially that one. I'd LOVE to see a judge's face when you bring that one in front of
her/him. 
