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Are there vending machines in your child's school???

If yes, is it an elementary, middle, or high school?
Is it a public or a private school?
Are they filled with healthy snacks, unhealthy snacks, healthy beverages, or unhealthy beverages?

How do you feel about vending machines in schools?
-Gail

there are three vending machines in my children's high school. One has granola bars, one has gatorade, I know last year they had snacks- not sure if they changed that one over. They were suppose to this fall, but when we were there for freshman orientation- it still had stuff from June. I told my children to save their money and I would be happy to purchase water,gatorade or healthy snacks after seeing that the machines did not get changed from June til august.

In my children's public elementary school there is a Snapple machine. I frequently have lunch with my children and see tons of kids purchasing drinks from there. My son says it's the cool thing to do at lunch.

No kids in school, but in my high school we had vending machine that sold cans of juice. The pop machine was hidden away in the teacher's lounge!

There are in the high school but they are kept locked and behid bars. I don't understand that at all. Why have them if they are locked up for 99% of the time. It's a waste of money. But they have an aray of items from candy to granola bars, and water, juice, and pop...but it seems they can't be purchased.