The province’s nutrition policy was a big topic at last night’s Anglophone East School District Education Council meeting.
Chair Harry Doyle says there needs to be some kind of compromise, so that fundraisers are not affected.
“I’ve received many, many calls from angry parents, people who have been with us for a long time who have been fundraisers and they’re just saying to me, if this is going to be the way it is, you can’t count on me, and that’s sad. That money goes into the schools to provide for field trips and sports days and equipment. If the province of new Brunswick can afford to match those funds coming from volunteers activities then we can live with the nutrition policy, but we can’t live with short changing the activities we have in schools.”
Doyle says he is supportive of looking at more nutritious foods, but once a new Minister of Education and Early Childhood Development is named after the upcoming provincial election, he hopes to work with them to modify the policy.
“I will do whatever I can to try and persuade whoever is the new Minister to relax this policy or change it or modify it in some way so that it is acceptable to keep the people we had helping us with fundraisers, because we really need that,” Doyle says.
