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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's a safety issue (if it is) because kids jump in their cars and speed away. They don't much time for lunch. They speed to whatever fast food place is closest or has become the go-to hang-out spot. It's chaotic. Don't have a car or a license, no problem - somebody does. And it's not very cool if you don't leave campus. I'm not saying it should change, it's been this way forever. It is chaotic. [/quote]

Back in the day at B-CC everyone just [b]walked over to the McDonalds for a nice healthy lunch[/b]. There was plenty of time. That location was profitable because of the proximity to the high school.

B-CC also has a nicely shaded front lawn where students would often relax outdoors. B-CC like most old historic schools in urban settings is perfectly suited for the open campus policies.

And the cafeteria has never been large enough to hold all the students at once. I believe that lunch in a crummy, crowded cafeteria for thousands of students is a terrible idea for any school. [/quote]

I cannot take you seriously with this. You actually believe the words "McDonald's" and "healthy" go together?

Convenient? Sure. Liked by kids? Absolutely. But McDonald's is not now, nor has it ever been, anyone's definition of healthy.[/quote]

Actually, the sad fact was that the B-CC McDonalds was more or less on the same level as the school lunches that were also full of sodium and preservatives.

One way to keep more kids on campus without coercion is to provide healthy and delicious school lunches like those of most European schools, France especially. Students in those freely schools come and go through the day, yet most enjoy the healthy and delicious meals all cooked in the school’s kitchen and curated by chefs. It’s sad that in the 1980s most US public schools stopped cooking meals on-site and instead trucked in refrigerated hot dogs and nuggets. In the 90s and early 00s, the salad bars with limp lettuce was the only overture towards providing healthy options. [/quote]

Unlike McDonald's, school lunches have sodium limits.

https://www.fns.usda.gov/cn/school-lunch-and-breakfast-sodium-limits-and-timeline[/quote]

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