How does this country serve worse than dog food to children?

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Anonymous wrote:I also work at an ES. I’m shocked how many middle class and upper MC families let their kids buy breakfast or lunch! It is so gross. My kids always packed and always will.

Many schools have move to free breakfast for all, and lunch too, so as to not stigmatize free meals. So even if your child eats a heathy breakfast at home, they are still handed a chocolate milk and pop tart when they hit the door.

To get funding for this you typically have to be at 50% or greater students on FARMS.

Also, in addition to the crap food, the amount of disposable wrapping/single use plastic is appalling. Everything is in individual packaging and then the breakfasts items are placed in another plastic bag so they can be easily carried to the classroom to eat. So gross.

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Do you vote for people who want to fund public schools? That's the best way to turn this around.

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Anonymous wrote:I also work at an ES. I’m shocked how many middle class and upper MC families let their kids buy breakfast or lunch! It is so gross. My kids always packed and always will.

Many schools have move to free breakfast for all, and lunch too, so as to not stigmatize free meals. So even if your child eats a heathy breakfast at home, they are still handed a chocolate milk and pop tart when they hit the door.

To get funding for this you typically have to be at 50% or greater students on FARMS.

Also, in addition to the crap food, the amount of disposable wrapping/single use plastic is appalling. Everything is in individual packaging and then the breakfasts items are placed in another plastic bag so they can be easily carried to the classroom to eat. So gross.

DP. Our MCPS ES has a farms rate of around 40% and they give out free “breakfast” to everyone. I understand why it’s given to everyone, but really dislike the execution of it for the reasons you state (awful food, disposable packaging).

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Anonymous wrote:Do you vote for people who want to fund public schools? That's the best way to turn this around.

Funding already exists but goes to paying for universal free (garbage) breakfast rather than healthy lunches. The money spent on that junk for non-FARMS students could instead be spent on funding healthy options, but isn't.

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Anonymous wrote:I also work at an ES. I’m shocked how many middle class and upper MC families let their kids buy breakfast or lunch! It is so gross. My kids always packed and always will.

I’m at an ES and very few buy breakfast or lunch. FARMS rate is about 7-8%. This is in FCPS and as mentioned in a pp, the meals have improved over years past.

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Anonymous wrote:They’re feeding the kids food they’ll eat. If you tried giving them the Korean school menu, they’d get way fewer calories.

Getting enough calories is never going to be a battle for this generation of kids. We have an obesity crisis.

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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.

So let them complain! JFC. Some of us complain to MCPS about all the sugar laden breakfasts and we are just ignored. They could take the same approach who complain that their kids no longer get cinnamon buns for free.

But the difference is the cinnamon buns get eaten. If they served white milk and plain cherrios, it would be largely passed over by most kids. So much so that the schools would eventually come to the conclusion it wasn’t needed and they would drop serving breakfast. Then parents would start to complain (again) and they would bring back sugar crap

If kids don’t eat it then they are not actually hungry. It has a bland taste - they can offer 1 sugar packet with it to help sweeten slightly - and is not a weird texture. So if kids are hungry they would consume it.

Ok pp is talking about Cheerios but there’s lots of other cereals. My kids love raisin bran. Even Honey Nut Cheerios is better than the chocolate muffins they get served for breakfast. None of my kids have chocolate or strawberry milk until they started school. No daycare would ever serve that stuff!

Why are daycares so much better at feeding kids?

Because daycares are a business and the public school system isn't worried about losing customers. Sad but true.

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The food lobby is behind the selections. I remember years ago when a pizza vendor lobbied to get pizza classified as a vegetable under the federal regulations so it could meet the standard more easily for school lunches. The rationale was that pizza has tomato sauce. This is who you are up against, not the whiny parents who want free junk food for their kids.

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Anonymous wrote:Because people hate taxes. No one cares about the poor when they might have to pay a slight % more.

This. Republicans are also trying to defund public schools. Youngkin is working on it in VA.

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This government has done absolutely nothing to improve the health of Americans, we the people who pay the sobs to enrich themselves.

In fact, virtually everything is designed to make more Americans sicker and sicker.

What the f happened to Michelle’s healthy eating media blitz? Nothing. All propaganda.

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Anonymous wrote:They’re feeding the kids food they’ll eat. If you tried giving them the Korean school menu, they’d get way fewer calories.

Getting enough calories is never going to be a battle for this generation of kids. We have an obesity crisis.

You are missing the critical issue, poster.

Most people suffering with obesity, especially children, are nutritionally malnourished. That malnutrition is linked to mental illness, behavior disorders, and a host of physical illnesses as well.

See this is where we prove the point that CICO is not the answer to the obesity crisis. The quality of calories matters a lot in nurturing healthy bodies and minds, which is the biggest reason the sellout of the American school breakfast and lunch program is such a tragedy - they have the opportunity to nourish young minds and bodies and are instead feeding poison that fattens but does not nourish.

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Anonymous wrote:They’re feeding the kids food they’ll eat. If you tried giving them the Korean school menu, they’d get way fewer calories.

Getting enough calories is never going to be a battle for this generation of kids. We have an obesity crisis.

You are missing the critical issue, poster.

Most people suffering with obesity, especially children, are nutritionally malnourished. That malnutrition is linked to mental illness, behavior disorders, and a host of physical illnesses as well.

See this is where we prove the point that CICO is not the answer to the obesity crisis. The quality of calories matters a lot in nurturing healthy bodies and minds, which is the biggest reason the sellout of the American school breakfast and lunch program is such a tragedy - they have the opportunity to nourish young minds and bodies and are instead feeding poison that fattens but does not nourish.

If you read the post I was replying to you would understand my comment.