I agree, but will go one further. Get rid of the lunches all together. I went to Catholic School and had to bring our own lunches. Nobody seemed to go without lunch that way. Of course on occasion a child might have forgotten his or her lunch and the Mom was running into school to ensure she got it to them in time for lunch. On the VERY rare occasion when someone forgot to bring their lunch, kids would give parts of their lunch to the child. No big deal.
Some of the best lunches I had in Catholic School were the rare times I forgot mine, and couldn’t get a hold of my folks, to bail me out. No PBJ, baloney, or egg salad that day, and the only time I got a Twinkie, or some other unhealthy, but tasty snack ;)
When I was in 7th & 8th grades the cafeteria staff went on strike. So the kids had to bring lunches from home. Turned out the kids preferred it that way. So the school board closed the cafeterias and fired the staff.
Then we moved away, so I don’t know if they ever got their cafeterias back...
In the city in which I live, there are children whose only hope of eating is at school (”food stamp” and other govt. program money is spent on drugs). My church makes up food packets for some of these kids for weekdends with instructions to hide them from their parents. Getting rid of school lunches would be a death sentence for some of them.
Can’t do that with both parents working...
Yep—it’d teach kids to prepare their own food if their parents aren’t teaching them by example, and end in one generation this nonsense of parents not up to the task of feeding their kids.
I agree completely. My experience in 12 years of Catholic school was exactly as you describe.
Do away with the school cafeteria, and a lot of money and time will be saved.