re: Thoughts on kids and school lunches

Everyone should take a day off from work and spend a day at your local public middle school. I taught for 22 years in the EBR public school system and witnessed the decline and fall of a wonderful school nutrition program. Every school would cook its' own food that was tasty and filling,served on real plates with metal silverware. If kids asked for seconds they could get it.Almost all the teachers ate lunch daily. Cost cutting measures implemented by a superintendent in the early 1980s caused food to be cooked by one regional kitchen and then trucked to the schools to be served on styroform plates with plastic utensils. Don't worry about getting seconds because the quality of the food went so bad that most of the kids got served and just threw it in the trash.The kids call it "jail house food".