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Schools are another source of education on health, including food, but when schools are impoverished, mismanaged or teaching too closely to NCLB, they cannot provide the additional health education support that kids and children need.
As a parent I'll also tell you that we've changed a lot as a culture; the mainstream media has amplified our fears about "stranger danger" to the point where many of us are afraid to let our kids out of our sight. They can't freely run outside and play like we used to do as kids for fear of violence.
Something has to give; it's not quite as simply as parents being more responsible. The entire "village" is going to have to re-evaluate how to raise our children so that they are healthy and safe.