Doubt it. Those people are already packing lunch. What’s left are the parents that either don’t care or can’t afford to send food |
Um…that is not packing a lunch. |
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. |
It's better than school food. |
We spend too much money on DEI and other pet social projects and not enough on putting together a nutritious menu for kids. |
Possibly, but probably not really, as many folks would send McDonalds or the like. Anyway that is a logistical nightmare - imagine having tons of Doordashers pulling up at the variety of lunch times kids have. My kids' school serves lunch starting at 11 am and ends at 1:30. Classes rotate obviously. But if this is truly an obstacle for PP, you can always Doordash or cater to your house the evening before and pack it to go. The food served at my kids school (a presumably wealthy Bethesda school) is appalling. I pack my kids' lunches and let them order once a month only - they usually pick pizza day, though they admit the pizza is not nearly as good as from a real pizza place. I am really surprised at how many parents in this wealthy area let their kids eat the garbage the school serves - often for breakfast and lunch both. I am not someone who cares much about organic but I do care about lowering sugar, salt, and overall processing of food, but apparently I am in the minority. The after care also serves terrible snacks - like pop tarts. Not kidding. Usually it's chips and fruit rollups, which aren't any better really, but when they come home saying they ate pop tarts I grind my teeth. I can see someone somewhere thinking chips and fruit rollups are healthy - though they are not - but no one in the whole world can possibly think a pop tart is healthy, so it drives me crazy that they serve this. |
Sending delivery food to school is unreasonable and problematic. Why can’t you just pack a lunch like a normal person and send it with them? |
Too many parents will complain “But muh kid’s allergies” if school menus were to change. |
Isn’t this parents’ responsibility? Who puts together nutritious meals for you at work? |
+1 All of this |
I agree it is the parent’s responsibility- however, I don’t want the kids to suffer because of their parents’ irresponsibility. I think we can manage to pay for every kid to get a sensible lunch- something like the sandwich, fresh fruit and milk option at minimum. |
Junk food is a drug and should be banned.
Kids should be served fresh fruits and veg and protein and truly whole grains. That’s it. Junk should be banned in hospitals, schools, all public places. We have a crisis of obesity and diabetes and all the other downstream diseases. This is an emergency. |
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 |