Yesterday my daughter Ashlee had her 5Th grade graduation.

We made a deal that if she gets good grades I would buy her a cell phone.  Well, looks like I’m going shopping.  She got all A’s and B’s and also got the Silver Academic Achievement Award. 

Congratulations kid!  I love you and I’m very proud of you.  Great job!

A teacher at West Boca Raton High School is in trouble after school district officials learned about pictures on the web of her in a bikini.

Erica Chevillar, 25, is a first-year social studies teacher at the school. She is also one of about 80 models featured on the Web site of the USA National Bikini team, a Boca Raton-based company, according to the Web site. The site lists calendars for sale featuring scantily clad models dressed in bathing suits, provocative outfits or lingerie.

Oh, dear God no!  We can’t have good looking teachers teaching our kids!  This is an outrage!  I mean, high school teachers need to walk a fine line when in college studying to make the "big bucks".  None of this posing in scantily clad outfits, which is clearly the first step before becoming a full on porn star.

Please, give me a break!  I say, Yah! for bikini wearing teachers.  Maybe, it will get the kids’ attention.  God knows nothing else these days is working.

Of course there is always a big loser kid who says something stupid to the press.

"I don’t think it’s appropriate," said Josh Yanover, a sophomore at the school. "It’s a teacher. People are going to be paying more attention to her than what they are learning in class."

WHAT?!?!  Did he just say that?  Clearly this kid is either gay or just trying to be a little kiss ass. What teenage boy doesn’t want a hot teacher that has posed for a bikini calendar?  On the other hand maybe this kid just plain stupid, because making a comment like that will definitely get your ass kicked.  Speaking of getting his ass kicked, how about the kid whose mom made the complaint.  I bet these two kids aren’t the most popular right now.

Read the whole story here.

Kids are going to be pissed, or maybe not.

Tens of millions of students will no longer be able to buy non-diet sodas in the nation’s public schools under an agreement announced Wednesday between major beverage distributors and anti-obesity advocates.

I for one think this is a good idea but I don’t think it will stop kids from becoming obese.  I personally don’t think that the public school system is to blame for our children being fatter than ever.  It’s the parents fault and I see it all the time while shopping in Walmart.  It’s become the norm to shut a kid up with food.  Next time you are grocery shopping look at the kids that are in the child seats of shopping baskets.  I guarantee you that over 80% of them will be eating something and it won’t be anything nutritious.  Parents don’t discipline their children anymore, they distract them with treats instead.   When I was a kid  you received treats for behaving, but now kids receive treats to keep them distracted.

The article also says that it will only sell water, juice and low-fat milks to elementary and middle schools.  What exactly do they classify as juice?   How about a Sobe Black & Blue Berry Brew?
 

In my kids elementary school they don’t sell any sodas, but they do have a Sobe "juice" machine in the cafeteria.  I don’t know if any of you have ever tried a Sobe Black and Blue Berry Brew before but I can tell you that its just as sweet as any soda.  Hell, the second ingredient is HIGH FRUCTOSE CORN SYRUP and the fourth is SUGAR.  Is this any better for our children?  The argument of course being that it has juice in it so at least there is something that gives it nutritional value right?  Sure, but not until you get to the sixth ingredient do you see any kind of juice.  Also, you should note that a serving size is 8 oz. but the bottle is 20 oz.  Kids do not look at serving sizes on labels.  To a kid this bottle is one serving and I will bet that every kid given one of these will drink the whole thing in one sitting which equates to a whopping 310 calories and 78g of sugar.  This is certainly no better then the average soda.

While I think that the public schools are moving in the right direction, I think that parents are ultimately responsible for what their children are eating and drinking.  Besides, ever notice that fat kids normally have fat parents?  Come on people, get a damn clue and stop killing your own children.  The government won’t save them, that job is up to you.

Read the whole story here and check out some nutritional info on Sobe drinks on their website.