This is depressing: "High School Lunch Photo Causes Concern Among Parents"

[Smoblikat]

This was never an issue when I was a kid, if you dont like school lunch, BRING YOUR OWN. It is not a difficult concept to grasp. Schools arent designed to provide the most nutritious meals ever conceived, its a place to learn. The food is an afterthought.

 

[Ns1]

This was never an issue when I was a kid, if you dont like school lunch, BRING YOUR OWN. It is not a difficult concept to grasp. Schools arent designed to provide the most nutritious meals ever conceived, its a place to learn. The food is an afterthought.

One issue is that bringing your own takes money away from the school. This was never a problem when I was at school because...they provided food we wanted to (or were willing to) eat. Cauliflower would sure as hell go straight into the trash.

What about it? I see no context. Can they get seconds? Did the kid throw away the bun? Did the kid not get milk? Are there no condiments provided? Is it a la carte? A picture is really worthless.

I'll post up the article, but in anticipation of your retort I will say that these stories are common and many districts have dropped the federal lunch program due to complaints.

Angry parents in Chickasha complain their kids aren't getting enough to eat at school. The Holton family says the meal the district calls a "Munchable" is ridiculous and family members say it needs to change.

The meal that daughter Kaytlin Shelton took a photo of Monday consists of lunch meat, a couple crackers, a slice of cheese and two pieces of cauliflower. Schools in Chickasha serve it every other week.

Kaytlin says it's especially problematic for her because the 17-year-old is eating for two. She's pregnant with a little girl on the way.

"It makes me want to take that and take it to the Superintendent and tell him to eat it for lunch," she said.

Kaytlin's father Vince Holton says the $3 meal is not good enough for any student, much less one eight months pregnant.

"I can go pay a dollar for a lunchabe and get more food in it," he said.

The school district says there are more options on Munchable day such as milk, beans and pears, but Superintendent David Cash agrees there's a problem. He says it's thanks to federal regulations to fight childhood obesity, which limit calories per meal based on a student's age.

"You've got in some cases little kids that they're only two meals are breakfast and lunch at school and they're getting you know a grand total of 1100 calories. That's not enough," he said.

As for the Munchcable? High school students are supposed to get five options at lunch but students only have to accept three. And state nutritional regulators say because of that the meal passes federal guidelines.

"We have a meat-meat alternate, we have a bread grain, we have vegetable," said Asst. State Superintendent for Child Nutrition Joanie Hildenbrand, looking at the photo she received from Fox 25, "it's the student's choice of what they want to take."

But even she says the federal regulations for maximum calories, sodium and fat are frustrating. Especially because many students don't eat all of the options.

"These regulations were put into effect two years ago and were still struggling with them."

There are no exceptions for students who are pregnant or those who are athletes and burn more calories on a daily basis.

Chickasha administrators say as a result they think kids are going hungry at school.

"I know they are," Superintendent Cash said, "there is no doubt about that. My own kid comes home and the first thing he does is raid the refrigerator."

And the Holton family says they just want to make sure their kids get the nutrition and calories they need for their growing family.

"Schools are responsible for children while they're at school," Kaytlin's father Vince said, "they're responsible for feeding the children."

The Superintendent says in wake of the complaints the district will re-examine the Munchable as a regular meal option.

http://www.okcfox.com/story/26799348/familys-anger-over-school-lunch-reveals-more-widespread-issues

 

[dank69]

... they're only two meals are ...

I love the state of journalism these days.

 

[cyclohexane]

Bunch of loser parents.

It costs nothing to make peanut butter jelly sandwiches.

 

[Smoblikat]

]One issue is that bringing your own takes money away from the school. This was never a problem when I was at school because...they provided food we wanted to (or were willing to) eat. Cauliflower would sure as hell go straight into the trash. [/B]



I'll post up the article, but in anticipation of your retort I will say that these stories are common and many districts have dropped the federal lunch program due to complaints.



http://www.okcfox.com/story/26799348/familys-anger-over-school-lunch-reveals-more-widespread-issues

Absolutely agreed, so you are saying that due to federal strangulation regulations schools no longer provide food kids are willing to eat? If so I definitely agree with that. Though, the way I was always brought up was "If youre hungry enough, youll eat it". These kids seem to be whining about nothing, they are lucky to have any food at all.

 

[Ns1]

Absolutely agreed, so you are saying that due to federal strangulation regulations schools no longer provide food kids are willing to eat? If so I definitely agree with that. Though, the way I was always brought up was "If youre hungry enough, youll eat it". These kids seem to be whining about nothing, they are lucky to have any food at all.

yes that is correct. lots of reports of ridiculous food waste too cuz the kids GOTTA take the apple they're not going to eat.

 

[ElFenix]

"I know they are," Superintendent Cash said, "there is no doubt about that. My own kid comes home and the first thing he does is raid the refrigerator."

which is different from kids for the last 60 years how?

(i'd go back further but there weren't many fridges)

 

[Ns1]

which is different from kids for the last 60 years how?

(i'd go back further but there weren't many fridges)

I went home to play games.

 

[piasabird]

I question whether milk is actually good for you. A diabetic should not even eat that large of a bun full of white flour. A hamburger doesn't qualify as a lunch item.

 

[MagnusTheBrewer]

I question whether milk is actually good for you.

Commie!

 

[waggy]

Bunch of loser parents.

It costs nothing to make peanut butter jelly sandwiches.

why you so racist?
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/11/is-peanut-butter-and-jelly-racist_n_1874905.html

also many school's are banning them.

http://www.ibtimes.com/pbj-ban-arkansas-school-blacklists-delicious-peanut-spread-causes-facebook-backlash-789596



A Viola, Ark., schoolboy was denied his homemade peanut-butter-and-jelly sandwich at lunch because of a ban on peanut products, sparking an outcry on Facebook over lunchtime rights and the ever-growing list of child-safety-oriented rules that leave some parents hungry for common sense.

The boy, Jenkins Clifton-Jones, saw his PB&J sandwich confiscated and replaced by a teacher, who then sent the student home with a note explaining the school's no-peanut-products policy, according to Area Wide News.