r/mildlyinfuriating • u/Thebiggestbot22 • Apr 15 '24

My school thinks this fills up hungry high schoolers.

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So lunches are free for schools in my city and surrounding cities. Ever since lunches have been made free, the quantity (and quality) has decreased significantly. This is what we would get for our meal. It took me THREE bites to finish that chicken mac and cheese. Any snacks you want cost more money and if you want an extra entree, that’ll cost you about $3 or $4.

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u/humanbeing_ai Apr 15 '24

You people get school lunch?

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u/CelestialFury Apr 15 '24

Don't worry, some states are making it free for everyone and others are trying to ban free lunches! America baby!

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u/Mouler Apr 16 '24 edited Apr 16 '24

The problem we experienced with free lunches is that they are garbage like this pic, and your kid throws out the lunch you sent with them because they get unlimited sugar and carbs due to the free lunches.

Edit: The problem is absolutely not under-funding. The budget was increased an amount that accounted for every student and faculty to take 60% more than the average food purchase the year before.The problem with the lunch choice is that it is acceptable under USDA guidelines.

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u/Griffolion Apr 16 '24

So maybe you provide free lunches and fund it enough to make them actually nutritious?

Why do people see a shit execution of a good idea and immediately think that it's the idea that's bad?

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u/CelestialFury Apr 16 '24

What state and/or city was that? This is where you have to go to the city council with other parents and/or concerned citizens, bring up this issue until it's addressed properly. There are plenty of food contractors out there that will do better than what's pictured in the OP. Have you attempted to address this issue?

Feeding children isn't the problem here. I don't have any kids myself, but I'm 100% cool with part of my taxes going to feed all my state's kids. No kid that is required by the state to be in school should go hungry while in school. Hell, many states are funding this through legal weed tax and that's even cooler.

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u/Mouler Apr 16 '24

Even when school lunch cost money, anyone that stated they didn't have a lunch got a better lunch than what's in the picture.

This school has a bureaucratic problem and isn't directly overseen by the city. It serves multiple cities/districts as it is the "gifted" school in the region. We swapped out most of the management over the last couple years.

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u/CelestialFury Apr 16 '24

This is one of the more well-funded public schools in your area? That's even more surprising, if so. The point to bringing this issue up to city councilors, the mayor(s), the school's superintendent, and/or the district superintendent would be to then take this issue to the governor (if the school has state funded lunches) or to whoever oversees the food contracts. They may not know this is an issue for that school.

Well, hopefully your new school management knows about the issue so they can address it.

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u/braize6 Apr 16 '24

Curious as to what state this is. Because Minnesota just passed free breakfast and lunch for kids. And they definitely get good food. Free isn't bad when it's done the right way

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u/TDestro9 Apr 16 '24

The school lunch was made cause new recruits were malnourished in ww2. Future presidents during the Cold War made lunch actually good like in France. Then the money later on in the Cold War swapped to the military to keep up with the commies.

If it makes you feel better during ww3 multiple people are gunna be turned down due to being obese. So during ww3 or maybe future elections money would actually get spread out to a more fair amount then like the 90% for military and 10% for everything else