Homeschooling is one way to avoid sub standard school food. The reason kids are packing a lunch is they are hungry. They won’t eat Moochelle’s crappy food and their parents don’t want them going hungry.
Did you hear about the kingergarden kid who brought Oreos to school and got sent home with a note.
Stay out of my kids lunch sack, food nazi.
I am a storyteller and spend time often in schools and libraries. You would not believe the outrage in a couple Appalachian schools I visited last year. Teachers and some librarians tell me often of the cafeteria workers having to throw out leftover food because of government regulations. If a child comes to them and asks for more they have to say no because it isn’t fair. The limits placed on them by the food Nazis make things even worse because they can’t serve traditional meals they would love to fix AND which would be a lot healthier in many respects.
These aren’t kids from great neighborhoods in some of these schools, not fat kids either. These are kids who the teachers, librarians and cafeteria workers know and they know that these kids are hungry. (BTW, the cafeteria workers are not allowed to take the food home or even give it to homeless shelters either. They have to account for what is taken by the children and what is disposed of)
In those counties in Kentucky and Tennessee (and elsewhere all around the country)civic groups, nonprofits, food banks,churches and teachers groups raise money and send backpacks of food home on weekends for these kids.
I’m from a county in Kentucky that is considered one of the poorest counties in the United States with a per capita income of less than $10,000 (9 of the 50 poorest are in that same area in Eastern Kentucky) Since Obama’s war on coal (no argument on the good or bad impact of coal on the environment)things have been even worse with so many miners losing their jobs, jobs that were considered good jobs there.