And how much of that food being tossed in the garbage is being paid for by the taxpayer? Went to our kids’ school tonight to get the overview for the coming year and all of the administration is really pushing to get those free/reduced lunch forms filled out even if you think you don’t qualify because they get money from the “federal government” for every kid that is on it. It makes me sick. If my husband made half of what he does (and there was a time in the not so distant past he did), I wouldn’t do it. I really respect the director of our school, but that whole thing makes me angry. Unless there are some really exceptional circumstances you should be able to provide a damn sandwich for your kid to eat. But everyone’s got a frickin’ cell phone that they can’t get their face out of. How many of those getting free/reduced lunches for their kids are smoking cigarettes and doing all kinds of things they don’t need to do, but they can’t send their kid with a lunch or pay $2.25 to get one from the school.
Most of the food tossed in the garbage is paid for by the taxpayer. It is not hard to qualify for at least reduced-price lunches. Apparently, if a school can get to 50% free or reduced-price lunches, it opens them up to a whole lot of government cheese.
In my town, the high schoolers are allowed to go off campus for lunch. I drove by the other day, and it looked like the entire student body was headed to Subway.