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Originally Posted by Buckeyephan
Obviously, most of the people making decisions about school food have never done lunch duty in an elementary school. My school had over 60% of the students receiving free or reduced-priced lunch. We had the healthiest trash cans where most of the fruit went. The lunch program was supposed to feed kids who would have gone hungry without this. These kids couldn't have been too hungry because they chose to throw out their lunches rather than eat something they didn't like. So, the schools are between a rock and a hard place. What the the kids want isn't very healthy but they won't eat what is healthy. Good intentions are making many empty bellies. Oh, and we weren't allowed to encourage them to actually eat the food. They had to take a certain number of offered items even if they threw it away. Our tax dollars at work.
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Of course you are from Ohio. You make sense.
And I'll bet you had children, too. Big difference in people who know what's good for kids when they HAVE kids.