Posted on 10/16/2015 11:51:44 AM PDT by PROCON
Schools are modern prisons for unsentenced yutes.
I eat a lot of deep-fried Tofu, don’t mind those “burgers”. But I have been a vegetarian for over 40 years. And everything but Cheerios and corn flakes gets a health dose of hot sauce of some sort. :)
Processed cheese is great? You must have low standards. LOL (Kidding)
Growing up in the 50s we had the wonderful local cooks. Tuna casseroles with browned crusts, meat loaf, fresh vegetables, home-baked rolls, all kinds of delectables.
My family had little money, though, so we brought our brown bags from home with tuna or peanut butter and jelly and carrot sticks, oranges or apples.
As a rural school, though, there was a rotating program where every few months some kids would work the kitchen for a week, washing and clearing tables. During that week, the working kids got free hot lunch all week.
It was delicious! My mother never had much interest in food so we always ate the simple basics. The cafeteria stuff with lots of butter and gravy was heaven to me and my sis!
"The Spouse or significant Other of the President shall prescribe the Meals to be eaten by the Students in the publick Schools."
This is not a story about conservatives saying no...its a story about liberals saying not for my kid.
There are 10’s 100’s of thousands of school districts out there but one of the most liberal in the nation pushes back...and that's somehow a victory for conservatives ..give me break
Oh yes. The waste in the free lunch/breakfast program is epic. The mandate is that free lunches must include servings of this/that/and the other. It is so horrific, the kids don't want it, but everything must be put on the plate. So the kids walk straight to the garbage can and scrape it off.
Now, I was raised to consider the waste of food to be a sin (those starving children in India), but I have hard time blaming the kids.
About those packaged meals: It's really sad. In HeadStart programs within public schools, the tots get free meals. They fed those little 4 year olds stuff like plastic-wrapped pastries and as a "learning experience" they had to open the plastic packaging themselves. I wonder how many moms would feed that crap to their toddlers if they were in charge of feeding them.
Yes. As I said before, I don't even mind the "healthy" mandate. You can serve wonderful meals that are low in fats/calories/sodium/whatever. Instead everything that is served, other than something like a shriveled orange, is very low quality heat-and-serve. The only thing I'd ever eat from the cafeteria was a salad, and even that was a handful of lukewarm iceberg lettuce straight from a bag and a few diced tomatoes sprinkled on top.
Besides which, I just don't get the free meal program. Shouldn't the parents have to pay for the meals with Food Stamps? The gov is already providing them money to feed their families.
I will say this: a few our students really depended on the breakfast and lunch because of the general lack of care at home. My philosophical problems with the free lunch program aside, it was awful to think that the food served in our cafeteria was the only food a child might get that day.
The cheese that the people that I knew got, was Wisconsin sharp Cheddar....absolutely wonderful cheese, and they willingly sold it for cigarette money....
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