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Originally Posted by Sandtrap328
Sure, pizza and a can of soda tastes great for a school lunch. No dispute with that.
However, if oven baked breaded chicken tenders, baked french fries, and a cold carton of milk was the only thing offered, the kids would eat it. Kids will not go hungry voluntarily. They might find out it is tasty. Maybe, schools could send home recipes for the parents could try them on weekends.
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Since the school year began, a local TV station did a report on school lunch waste. The trash cans had more food in them, than the kids. In our area, the kids simply are not eating. Our daughter is a teacher and she said in her school, many of the students have begun packing their lunches. For those students that the parents may not have time, the lunches are getting pitched. Our daughter said many of the students are dropped off in the morning with a bag from Dunkin Donuts with the child's breakfast of donut sandwich and chocolate milk.
The idea of recipes is a good one and with schools being on the Internet with parents checking daily, it would be something where the home could help. Many of today's youth leave school, get picked up by parent, stop at McDonalds, and head to soccer practice. This may be our geographic area and not typical.
Bottom line, so far in our area the kids simply are not eating. The TV news cast was not where our daughter teaches. At least two school districts have found this year, the kids will go without food. Maybe in the city the kids are hungry enough to eat what they're given, but in suburbia PA they don't.