School board bans junk food, not homemade meals

The county Board of Education has approved a ban on junk food, but backed off from a more stringent nutrition policy that would have banned many homemade foods from class.

The new rules that passed unanimously at a recent school board meeting forbid candy, soda and other so-called foods of minimal nutritional value from being sold or given out until the end of the school day.

But homemade sauces, meats and other food that can spoil will be allowed in the classroom after parents protested a move to ban many meals that weren't bought in stores.

"It doesn't surprise me," said Regina Cornelius, a Severna Park parent who...