Cry me a river.
Briwn your own lunches like we did.
I’m sorry but I don’t think the meals look that terrible. They all seem to have a protein, a veggie, a starch, and something sweet. And there’s chocolate milk.
How are you going to pay for those gov salaries and benefits if you spend it on food?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hopkinton,_New_York
1,100 residents and 187 square miles! Median income is $32,000. I doubt there’s muck of a tax base to support this so how hard can it be for parents to throw an apple (NY grows them) in the kid’s school bag?
I get some school systems do not allow parents to pack lunches for the their children anymore.
But if that is what my child was being fed at school, they would have some sort of supplemental food to the lunch.
There are “rules” that must be followed when packing a kids lunch these days too. No PB&J, no greedy sweets to make other kids jealous, etc. We have all seen the stories of cafeteria monitors taking packed lunch items away from kids too.
Many of these parents get plenty of government assistance to be able to provide a bologna sandwich, apple, and a snack. Buy the school milk or drink water.
On the other hand I see schools offering breakfast, lunch and afterschool meals too.
Why?
“Not everyone can send their child with a home packed lunch or extra money to buy more”
Then those “Everyone” people shouldn’t be bringing children into the world. Good grief! Pop out babies and expect taxpayers to foot the bill? I don’t think so.
Hey Parents......it’s not hard to pack a lunch for your kids.....or is it??
Simple fix - the principal or vice principal has to eat the provided lunch every day.
You breed’m then you feed’m.
A couple of footlong oven roasted chicken sub sandwiches, a pound of french fries improved by half of a bottle of ketchup, two oranges, an apple, half a cantaloupe, and a quart of milk would be a better standard lunch.
My mom raised 5 boys by herself after my dad split just as I was starting my Freshman year. Money was tight and we had to go on food stamps.
But every single morning she fed us breakfast and there were 5 identical lunch bags on the counter each with our names on them. Why she went to the trouble of putting our names on them still baffles me. They were identical after all.
I didn’t get regular hot school lunches until the next year when mom learned we were eligible for “free” lunches. The food was decent and there was plenty of it. There were no restrictions on fat content, salt content, and all that other Federal crap. Whole milk, chocolate milk, and juices were available. I remember the meat loaf with mashed potatoes and gravy being particularly good.
Every single thing the Feds touch they screw up. I used to except the military from that statement but that’s not true any longer.
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This liberal tripe has always annoyed me. Do these same kids starve to death during school vacations and summer breaks? Give me a break.
No student is "owed" a hot lunch in school. For years, my mother would pack me a peanut butter and jelly sandwich with maybe a banana or apple and a thermos of milk and I never felt like I was starving or missing out.
It's not that the parents of these children are "too poor" to provide their children with a lunch, it's because they are too lazy and they just don't care. Why don't we just admit that this is the case?
We homeschooled. Generally, our sons got a hot lunch every day, freshly cooked from scratch by my wife. She felt guilty if when they had sandwiches she didn’t also have a nice, hot bowl of soup to accompany the sandwich.
I saw that exact same photo in an article about prison food.
Things that make you go hmmmmmm....
50 cents worth of institutional food and they probably get $5/meal from fedgov.
Bring back the lunch ladies. Cook the food at the schools. I remember the smell of lunch cooking getting us all hungry, even if we brought our own lunch.
Hopkinton, New York. You can’t get any more “upstate” than this! or you are in Montreal Canada.
I always bought my lunch. Our cupboard was bare and/or my parents were too hung over to prepare a bag lunch.
35 cents bought you a real nice lunch. (except for Fridays when they ALWAYS served fish sticks!)
What is REALLY wrong about the public schools has little to do with what kids’ stomachs are fed in the cafeteria?
The UTTER and TOTAL failure of the public schools can be found in the classroom not the cafeteria.
I was so FORTUNATE to have gotten a SUPERIOR public school education in the fifties and sixties.
As for the food, it was fair to middling.
A two week menu was published and sent home with us.
There were a few meals where I would ask my mother to pack a lunch.
In a free country that is called free choice.
I have an idea, feed your own damn kids!