Anonymous
Post 11/12/2019 17:54     Subject: Parents are ordering from DoorDash to deliver their MSer's lunch
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Do Maryland schools not offer school lunch?


They do, but it is both unhealthy and tastes awful. And the lower income the school, the worse the offerings. We’re at 3 middles in MoCo. They all seem to rotate offerings across the week, but two have options and one does not. One offers a hot breakfast or a fruit and yogurt parfait each day for breakfast. Another has either an egg sandwich or bagel and cream cheese. The third has no choice and the best day is crappy cinnamon rolls on Friday.


The food contract goes to the vendor who can produce the food at the least cost to MCPS. It is sad because MCPS is now having to feed the children because hunger is rampant in FARMS communities, so something needs to be done. Producing healthier fare takes a lot of money that the county no longer has. The best thing that non-FARMS families can do is pack a healthy snack and lunch for their kids.

It is money and funding. Maybe, political will also. Who knows?
Anonymous
Post 11/12/2019 17:38     Subject: Parents are ordering from DoorDash to deliver their MSer's lunch
Anonymous wrote:Do Maryland schools not offer school lunch?


They do, but it is both unhealthy and tastes awful. And the lower income the school, the worse the offerings. We’re at 3 middles in MoCo. They all seem to rotate offerings across the week, but two have options and one does not. One offers a hot breakfast or a fruit and yogurt parfait each day for breakfast. Another has either an egg sandwich or bagel and cream cheese. The third has no choice and the best day is crappy cinnamon rolls on Friday.
Anonymous
Post 11/12/2019 15:36     Subject: Parents are ordering from DoorDash to deliver their MSer's lunch
Do Maryland schools not offer school lunch?
Anonymous
Post 11/12/2019 15:33     Subject: Re:Parents are ordering from DoorDash to deliver their MSer's lunch
Achievement gap. Some people can afford DoorDash and some can't.
Anonymous
Post 11/12/2019 14:13     Subject: Parents are ordering from DoorDash to deliver their MSer's lunch
Anonymous wrote:I think the issue is scale. My local middle school has over 1300 Kids. Imagine just 30 making these orders. I'll bet it would be a nightmare to deal with. Security, labeling, theft, Kids late for class, Kids refusing to go to the lunch room. That's just off the top of my head.


All kinds of illegal fire lane parking to drop off since there is never any parking.
Anonymous
Post 11/12/2019 14:02     Subject: Parents are ordering from DoorDash to deliver their MSer's lunch
I think the issue is scale. My local middle school has over 1300 Kids. Imagine just 30 making these orders. I'll bet it would be a nightmare to deal with. Security, labeling, theft, Kids late for class, Kids refusing to go to the lunch room. That's just off the top of my head.
Anonymous
Post 11/12/2019 13:55     Subject: Parents are ordering from DoorDash to deliver their MSer's lunch
I guess they need another policy. No food deliveries for students.

Pack a lunch or eat what is available that day.
Anonymous
Post 11/12/2019 13:45     Subject: Parents are ordering from DoorDash to deliver their MSer's lunch
Anonymous wrote:Maybe if the school lunches weren’t so unhealthy. Our pediatrician said never, even to the pizza once a week.

This
Anonymous
Post 11/12/2019 12:51     Subject: Parents are ordering from DoorDash to deliver their MSer's lunch
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
There's food in the cafeteria. It may not be what your kid wants, but it's there. That's a "have" problem. I don't get doordash deliveries at home for dinner if I cook something they don't like. Do you do that?

My kids usually bring hot lunch to school in a thermos. If they forget it, or if they want something else, I put money in their lunch account for emergencies.

Yes it would still be an issue no matter where they eat because the issue is not about have and have nots. It's about the front office being overwhelmed.

The school isn't your home. This is entitlement at its finest.


I think there is a business opportunity here to streamline this process.

If I cooked with shitty, substandard ingredients and gave it to my kids, I hope they would reject what I cooked. School cafeteria food is for poor immigrants and FARMs kids mainly because they don't know better. They are being fed meals that costs pennies and is leading to an obesity problem.

You have no idea what entitlement is.


WTF did I just read?


Word salad, made with substandard ingredients.
Anonymous
Post 11/12/2019 12:37     Subject: Parents are ordering from DoorDash to deliver their MSer's lunch
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
There's food in the cafeteria. It may not be what your kid wants, but it's there. That's a "have" problem. I don't get doordash deliveries at home for dinner if I cook something they don't like. Do you do that?

My kids usually bring hot lunch to school in a thermos. If they forget it, or if they want something else, I put money in their lunch account for emergencies.

Yes it would still be an issue no matter where they eat because the issue is not about have and have nots. It's about the front office being overwhelmed.

The school isn't your home. This is entitlement at its finest.


I think there is a business opportunity here to streamline this process.

If I cooked with shitty, substandard ingredients and gave it to my kids, I hope they would reject what I cooked. School cafeteria food is for poor immigrants and FARMs kids mainly because they don't know better. They are being fed meals that costs pennies and is leading to an obesity problem.

You have no idea what entitlement is.


WTF did I just read?
Anonymous
Post 11/12/2019 12:34     Subject: Parents are ordering from DoorDash to deliver their MSer's lunch
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Maybe if the school lunches weren’t so unhealthy. Our pediatrician said never, even to the pizza once a week.


I can't imagine any pediatrician saying this. I can see one saying that pizza isn't the best choice, and encourage your child to make a healthier choice, but to tell you that you kid should never eat pizza? What if your kid's class has a pizza party? Does your kid have to be the one with a packed lunch while all the rest get to enjoy?


Don't eat the school pizza. Eating pizza is not bad, eating school lunch is very bad because of the quality of the ingredients.

BS. Why do you say that? They use locally sourced ingredients and make nutritious meals. Kids aren't good judges of taste or quality; mine would eat crappy McNuggets everyday if he could.
Anonymous
Post 11/12/2019 11:51     Subject: Parents are ordering from DoorDash to deliver their MSer's lunch
Parents are ordering or kids are ordering?
Anonymous
Post 11/12/2019 10:32     Subject: Re:Parents are ordering from DoorDash to deliver their MSer's lunch
Order for your kid and the front office too. They will be very obligingly. You need to grease the palms in this country.
Anonymous
Post 11/12/2019 10:23     Subject: Parents are ordering from DoorDash to deliver their MSer's lunch
Our MS gives free breakfast to all and any student, as well as free smack and hot meal after school. This is because hunger is a real problem I'm our high FARMS school. This does not mean that the food served is healthy.
These kids are choosing obesity over starvation.
Anonymous
Post 11/12/2019 10:19     Subject: Parents are ordering from DoorDash to deliver their MSer's lunch
Anonymous wrote:
There's food in the cafeteria. It may not be what your kid wants, but it's there. That's a "have" problem. I don't get doordash deliveries at home for dinner if I cook something they don't like. Do you do that?

My kids usually bring hot lunch to school in a thermos. If they forget it, or if they want something else, I put money in their lunch account for emergencies.

Yes it would still be an issue no matter where they eat because the issue is not about have and have nots. It's about the front office being overwhelmed.

The school isn't your home. This is entitlement at its finest.


I think there is a business opportunity here to streamline this process.

If I cooked with shitty, substandard ingredients and gave it to my kids, I hope they would reject what I cooked. School cafeteria food is for poor immigrants and FARMs kids mainly because they don't know better. They are being fed meals that costs pennies and is leading to an obesity problem.

You have no idea what entitlement is.