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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Pack lunch.  This is not hard to figure out.[/quote]

Why should we have to? Why can’t the cafeteria serve decent food and give them a decent amount of time to eat?[/quote]

[b]Because they are your damn kids! The schools job is to educate them and your job is to raise them and provide for them![/b] Who made their lunch before they started school? And they get enough time to eat if they bring their lunch. When everyone is getting lunch it cuts into their eating time. Quit being lazy and bitching about a problem that doesn’t need to exist![/quote]

The Senators and Representatives who passed the National School Lunch Act, the Children Nutrition Act of 1966 and the Healthy-Hunger Free Kids Act of 2010 all seem to think that it is the school's job to feed students lunch. Read up on the history of school lunch. Yes many politicians have attempted to slash federal school lunch funding (And many were successful) but the principal remains the same: schools are expected to provide their students lunch. It is part of their job. Now some families opt out of school lunch and choose to pack lunch but that doesn't change the fact that the school still needs to provide students with lunch and not just teach.[/quote]

Have you ever tasted the food or are you just looking at the menu for a random week? Food needs to taste good and be freshly made.

The National School Lunch Program was established to ensure that every school child in this country has access to a healthy, nutritious meal each school day. Approximately 70% of children who eat school lunch qualify for free and reduced-price meals; this means that their access to healthy food isn’t guaranteed. At its heart, school lunch is a social justice issue. Not all families have the ability to pack a healthy school lunch every day for their children. One-third of our country’s children are overweight or obese, and another third face food insecurity. To dismiss school lunch as unimportant is to give complicit approval of the epidemic of malnutrition in our country, especially among children in lower socioeconomic groups.[/quote]

I'm looking at the school lunches for this week on our school's website and I'm just not seeing this vast conspiracy to make poor kids unhealthy. Here's this week's menu:

Macaroni and Cheese with Chicken Drumstick or Chef Salad w/Turkey served with steamed spinach or assorted fresh veggies and fresh fruit
Pizza served with garden salad or sliced red peppers and fresh fruit (alt. choice is chicken salad)
Terriyaki chicken w/ brown rice or chicken salad served w/steamed edamame or baby carrots and fresh fruit
Hamburger or Chef Salad served with corn and fresh fruit
Baked Chicken nuggets w/mini waffles or popcorn chicken salad served with sweet potato fries or broccoli and fresh fruit

Other than the mini waffles, I have no objection. Even the mini waffles are not so terrible, but these seem to be very popular w/the kids. Is this the best menu ever? No, but it's also so much better than it could be. Remember, ketchup was classified as a vegetable once upon a time for school lunch purposes. They can't force kids who won't eat vegetables to do so. They can only serve them.

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