Sort of an interesting insight as to how schools function more like re-education camps, than purely institutions of education today. There was a time in America when subjecting individuals to compulsory "re-education" in a mandated setting would have been frowned upon. But that time has past.
"I can't say enough for what it does for the kids to have the junk out of the machines," says Patricia Gray, who as former principal of San Francisco's Balboa High School oversaw a switch to healthier snacks.
"It was not an easy task," says Gray, now an assistant superintendent with the district, "it was a re-education process."
Efforts to get empty calories out of students' hands are being made in almost every state, according to the Centers for Disease Control. A 2008 School Health Profiles Survey found that fewer secondary schools were selling less nutritious snacks compared with two years before.

