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Anonymous wrote:All of you saying it's too expensive- you should see the lovely meals my preschoolers eat in preschool compared to the dog food given to my elementary schooler. And all the preschoolers eat it and enjoy it.
Obviously the preschoolers meals are mass produced, but can you imagine the outrage if my 2 year old was served a honey bun? I think the 2 year old teachers would have a heart attack if they had to put up with the behavior of 2 year olds who all ate a honey bun. They'd be bouncing off the walls. My 2nd grader routinely eats honey buns for breakfast, donuts, etc. In our school everyone gets a free lunch, so everyone is served "breakfast" as they walk through the door in the morning. Even the juice has got to go. My preschoolers are never served juice or chocolate milk. They get milk or water, just like parents serve at home.
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Breakfast is the worst. Why don’t they just serve
cheerios and white milk??
This is one literally one of the breakfast options that students (at least in the ES) have in FCPS.
I think though people are saying they should *just* have cheerios and white milk and fruit and not tempt kids with muffins (aka cupcakes) and poptarts and chocolate milk and french toast sticks etc. I kind of agree with that.
Yes. Exactly. Why in the world is a sugar fest an option to pick when there is a healthy and good tasting option that is also cheap to offer them.
Because parents will complain. There are a large number of parents that feed their kids this stuff, but would rather school did it for free. Also add in, there are very few kids actually without any food/starving at home.
Schools serve the sugar crap because that is what kids (and parents) want and what they typically eat. It gets taken and eaten by most of the kids. Then the school admins can pat themselves on the back because they are feeding kids. If they moved to heathy, simple options only (white milk, cheerios, bananas, raisins) it would mostly get passed over. Because the kids aren’t truly hungry, they just want sugar and will eat it if offered. We have an obesity epidemic; especially among the low income population.