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Healthy School Lunch Can Be Hard to Find

by NYC Private Schools on February 4, 2010

Healthy and nutritious foods for children are absolutely vital to maintaining their health and their alert, positive energy throughout the day. When students have the right healthy foods they also have the essential building blocks that their bodies need to fight off infections, enrich cognitive function and memory and stay physically and mentally healthy. As parents, most do their best to enable children to experience and learn about new foods and make better dietary choices. However, there is little control over school time lunches.

Many NYC Private Schools have brought in world class chefs in order to help students make real and lasting changes in their diets. When there is a variety of healthy choices, students will find their own favorites. Not all schools are so lucky, however.

The Daily News recently posted an article about the reality of school lunches in some NYC Public School programs.

Sky-high salt levels aren’t the only problems on the menu in city public schools.
The health-crazed Bloomberg administration often touts how it has overhauled school lunches and slashed calories – but critics charge the standard cafeteria fare is still far from healthy

A Daily News survey found lunchrooms routinely serve highly processed foods such as mozzarella sticks and pizza, which critics charge are loaded with preservatives and other unhealthy ingredients.

Nutritionists said processing foods, such as turning chicken into nuggets, removes nutrients while adding possibly unhealthy preservatives and fillers. Processed foods also pack more sugar, fat and salt to make up for flavors lost in processing.

One of the best ways to find out what kind of lunch program is being offered in your child’s school is, of course, to actually get a taste of it. Ideally, see if you can get permission to have lunch with your child for a day. While this may not be feasible, another solution is try to get a copy of the week’s lunch menu to look at the choices available to your child. If the menu is full of unhealthy choices and ingredients, perhaps it is time to instill a new NYC Healthy Lunch Program by packing your child’s lunch from home.


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The Right Help for Private School Students

by NYC Private Schools on February 2, 2010

Children start out in school in a variety of ways, some strong, some weak and some just waiting, it seems, to soak up all that the NYC Educational system can give to them. As children get older, very specific changes in personality and learning styles begin to show and it becomes clearer for many if the program they are in just isn’t going to continue being a good match for them.

If your child is having a difficult time at school, there are steps you can take to try and correct the situation and pave the way for a better learning experience.

Talk with your child’s teachers and school administrators to see where some of the problems are. A professional school will have recommendations on how they can work with the student in order to provide a better environment or give you recommendations on other private schools that may be a better match.

  • If class work is too difficult and your child is falling behind, a specialist can help determine your child’s learning strengths and weaknesses and create a plan to address those.
  • If class work isn’t the problem, but social and emotional difficulties are presented as an issue, therapy can help you and your family understand the difficulties facing your child and provide ways to support your family as you learn how to better support and understand your child.
  • If it becomes apparent that your child needs a different educational approach than he or she is getting now, there are many wonderful options. We have so often discussed the importance of matching the right Private School to the right student, and with the incredible availability of Private Schools in NYC, there are an abundance of programs and schools that exist to help specific student needs.

For instance, there are schools such as The Robert Louis Stevenson School, which is an independent NYC Private day school located in Manhattan that serves as a therapeutic, college preparatory school specifically focused on bright, under-achieving adolescents with the main goal of unlocking their potential and helping them go on to college

Helping your child learn does not always go according to the perfect plan because none of us are perfect. If there are obstacles facing your child’s learning then you have to take steps to work with your child and available professionals to find the right solution, the right school and the right help.


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Teaching Your Older Student Real Lessons

January 21, 2010

Your older child has a responsibility to make the most of his or her educational opportunities and work to be the best student they can be. There are no amount of loving parental excuses to compensate for a bright child who simply does not try or let them be invested in their own learning. [...]

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Private Schools and The Real Child

January 17, 2010

School interviews and parent essays are just some of the ways in which a clearer picture of your child is brought into focus for the school admissions staff. The best of the NYC Private Schools will adhere to the policy that scores do not mean everything. Just because a child scores in the [...]

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NYC Student Vaccinations Important

October 27, 2009

Health topics and the occasional health scare are no strangers to New York parents. NYC students, hit hard by the H1N1 flu last year, were at the forefront of a vaccination effort this year in order to reduce the number of children and families getting sick. The focus on the H1N1 flu has [...]

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Semifinalists and Regional Finalists Announced in the Siemens Competition

October 23, 2009

The Siemens Foundation announced today the Semifinalists and Regional Finalists of the Siemens Competition in Math, Science & Technology, revealing the brightest high school minds in contention for the nation’s most coveted teen science prize.
The Siemens Competition is the nation’s leading original research competition in math, science and technology for high school students, and is [...]

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Parent’s Permission for Private School Admission

October 21, 2009

Most of the advice for gaining entry into a New York Private School is geared towards parents and helping them with the application process and assisting their child. Sometimes, however, it is the older student who is trying to get admitted into a Private School program, and they need advice on gaining admittance while [...]

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NYC Students Celebrate International Walk to School Day

October 10, 2009

The ability to physically to school is an issue that faces many students in NYC. According to the National School Boards Association,
The number of children who walk or bike to school has dropped dramatically in recent decades, from approximately 50% in 1969 to fewer than 15% today. Walking and biking to school not [...]

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New York Students Vaccinated

October 9, 2009

New York Students are some of the first among those that are receiving the new H1N1 flu vaccine. Inoculations began this past week for students in both public and private schools in New York, an area hard hit by last year’s surprise outbreak.
CNN reported on the initial vaccinations:
For 13-year-old Brandon Marti, the intranasal [...]

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Healthy NYC Students

October 7, 2009

Health concerns are nothing new to any parent, whether they have a child n a NYC Private School, public school, charter school or even homeschooled. The rising levels of obesity in our country are only now causing parents, school officials and communities to stand up, recognize the problem and start to act on [...]

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