re: Spinoff Thread: What the Hell has Happened to School Lunches?

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Schools where every family pays out of pocket for their kid's lunch are where it's at.

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What schools aren't like this? Assuming you're not taking gov assisted free lunches and such..

i know they have better options at my high school then what i had 15-20yrs ago.


not sure about grammar school, but our menu looked a lot better than what you've posted.

it was always some kind of prepared "hot meal"...red beans, turkey rice gravy, lasagna, shepards pie, sailsbury steak..... not ballpark food. We occasionally had chicken nuggets or pizza, but it wasnt shite like that every day of the week.

high school had more of a variety. Pizza, some type of sandwich, and a hot plate line.

Watch the documentary Fed Up. It will explain what has happened with school lunch programs.

Yeah, I had way better meals in elementary school than high school. But I don't think that was necessarily due to grade. I think it was because I went to a Catholic school where all kids paid in elementary vs. the public high school I went to.

ive never gone to public schools, but are you saying the kids get free lunches?

I think we had the same meals in elementary and high school (I went to the same tiny, rural school from K-12), just in HS they gave you a choice of the real lunch or pizza or hamburger

of course 15 year olds are going to choose pizza or hamburger over the other food 99% of the time if given a choice

Michelle Obama

Yes. They fill out this form and it determined based on federal guidelines whether they get free, reduced, or full paid lunches.

It is quite the racket because there are NO repercussions for lying. Starting tomorrow, LA schools will have a % of their free/reduced kids picked and these families will have to prove their income written down. Well, if they wrote zero income, how do you prove you have zero income? You don't. You just don't provide your check stub.

Another shitty government program.

But the way it is SUPPOSED to work, these are the income brackets for free and reduced lunches based on family size.
And if you are a foster child, a homeless/migrant/runaway, or on any approved assistance programs, you are auto-free.

Schools generally receive their lunches from vendors in some form. So they have to pay their vendors. They pay up front. So they keep track of each student's meal each day in order to get money back from the government for the free and reduced students. The paid students pay the school directly.
In order to get money back for these free/reduced meals, these students must take a "complete" lunch. So if they're high school, they actually get a choice. If they decline part of the meal that makes it "complete", they are perfectly allowed to. And the school doesn't get reimbursed for that meal. This is why they force the elem/middle schoolers to take everything offered whether it is eaten or not.

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a lot of kids get free lunches in public school

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Now they also get free breakfast and late afternoon meal if they are in after-school program.

It never ends

[img]Another shitty government program. [/img]

Exactly.

Even if you get caught lying about your income (say, you wrote that you make $200/week but you don't have a check stub proving it), the only punishment you get is your kid being switched to "paid" from now on.