[The following letter was sent by Grandpa Russon in 2007 to local public school administrators in response to the question of setting up coffee bars in public schools.]
Recently in the news there was an announcement of the proliferation of coffee bars in public schools across the country. I was surprised at the apparent absence of resistance or concern about this critical movement. It is well known that caffeine in coffee has very little nutrition, but is a powerful stimulant. If we want our kids to be on the fast track, they may demand the artificial jolt to body and mind to perform the almost impossible feat day after day, year after year which may leave their muscles, nerves, brain and heart battered and frazzled early in life. We unitedly resist drugs and alcohol being available to our young people. Coffee addiction is only one impelling step ahead of these dreaded habits.
I appeal to the administrators of our public schools to refrain from allowing coffee bars to be set up in our local places of education.
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