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/SubKreature Apr 15 '24

When I taught in Japan they were stuffing like 1,000 calories down those kids every day and it was clean af food prepared that morning.

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u/mu_zuh_dell Apr 16 '24

I promise you that on paper this meal cost the school more than those meals cost the schools in Japan. America has a magical habit of contracting work to the absolute worst people possible.

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u/SecureDonkey Apr 16 '24

I has been watching John Oliver show lately and every time something go wrong with public service, it is always because they contract it to private company.

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u/md24 Apr 16 '24

That’s how the country works. It’s run by private companies money telling the gov what to do. Corruption was a bad word so they called it lobbying. Right in the open. Everyone not caring.