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Cupcakes or quinoa? How several school districts regulate snacks

July 12, 2014

Jennifer Nickels' complaints about a teacher rewarding her 7-year-old daughter and other Dundee Highlands Elementary School students with candy prompted a schoolwide survey to parents, who were fine with the sweets. Meanwhile, policies about candy and other treats doled out during the school day vary across the suburbs. "It's the cupcake and quinoa wars," Margaret Van Duch of Mundelein's Fremont District 79 said.

Source: http://www.dailyherald.com/article/20140712/news/140719577/
 
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