The Dallas Morning News Says A spoonful of sugar might help the literature go down, but caffeine stirs criticism. Some campuses in the Irving, Allen, Plano and Richardson school districts are stealing pages from the likes of Barnes & Noble and Starbucks, creating cozy settings that supply hot cups of joe and a nice place to relax.
Many adults can’t get through the day without a cup of coffee, and their kids are no different. Now schools, eager to latch on to the teenage enthusiasm, have added coffee bars to their libraries and elsewhere to draw them in.
“Kids don’t need to be hyped up on coffee and caffeine,” said Lona Sandon, a registered dietitian and an assistant professor at UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas. Coffee provides no nutritional value, and adding cream and sugar makes it even worse, she said.
“I think we’re sending the wrong message here,” she said. Kids should get enough rest and eat well enough so they don’t feel like they need to rely on a drug like caffeine, she said.
“Whether it’s Coke or coffee, if you ask me, they shouldn’t be drinking any of it.”
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is coke it?
well I wonder if the schools have soda machines and if so, the person complaining should go after those as well if they don’t like the coffee in the schools.
Speaking of Coke
“Why are you using the public library to promote a junk food?” yelled a memorable protestor of the LOC-Coke deal. They soon found out the Library of Congress has their own police force.
Coffee shops in libraries aren’t anything new, nor are vending machines in public schools, but this is the first I’ve heard of combining the two ideas.
Coffee!!!
The only way I got through HS was with coffee. I am not a morning person. I never have been and I never will be. When I went to HS my mom was a substitute teacher who was there almost every day. (It was Catholic school and all of the parents were required to volunteer, mom did that as her volunteer duty.)
I went in the cafetorium (Is that a Catholic word or do publics have those cafeteria/auditorium combos too?) to get a cup of coffee. You would have thought I asked for a gin and tonic! There was a big discussion that lasted days, they involved my mom and she didn’t care if I had coffee as long as I was alive and ready to leave at the end of the day. Finally my English teacher said let him have a cup of coffee at lunch if he wants, then perhaps he won’t fall asleep in my class.
Coffee and sweet ‘n low got me through my Junior and Senior years.