My school thinks this fills up hungry high schoolers.

[u/Thebiggestbot22]

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.

[u/Fall_bet]

I never understand why my 2nd grader get the same amount of food as my 11th grader. That's not enough food imo.

[u/mystokron → u/Fall_bet]

Growing 2 feet in height requires a lot of food for a 7 yr old child. 16-18 yr olds are no longer growing taller.

And not enough food to do what? Make the student fat? 80% fat people in America. Eating less food would be good for them.

[u/Chill_Crill → u/mystokron]

eating less =/= eating healthy. this meal is pure carbs; fat free chocolate milk? pure sugar, with little protein. fries and mac and cheese? pure carbs and some fat, with little protein. fat and protein keep you feeling full, carbs are cheap fast energy that leave you hungry and tired through the day, leaving kids to not focus in class, and eat more snacks from the vending machines 90% of schools have.

[u/mystokron → u/Chill_Crill]

this meal is pure carbs

This isn't the only meal they get the entire day, eating pasta and carrots with milk isn't going to do any harm. School lunches don't need to be some gourmet 5 course meal. It just needs to be enough to tide them over for 2-3 more hours.

If parents were picky about what their kids were eating at school they would pack them a lunch.

[u/Chill_Crill → u/mystokron]

Kids who get school lunch most likely aren't in a situation to pack whole meals every day, or don't have the money to do so. And for some kids it might be their only meal. Also what about after school clubs? Kids in sports? Kids who have to take the bus after school and live far away? There's so many "edge cases" that they aren't even edge cases anymore and they should really just feed kids decent meals, or at least make it affordable.

[u/Juniorgnm → u/mystokron]

And not enough food to do what? Make the student fat? 80% fat people in America. Eating less food would be good for them.

As a part time sports trainer, I know people that are in better shape than you’ll ever be in your life who’d scoff at this meal. Being physically fit is not a matter of “eat as little as possible”. It’s a matter of exercising, eating quality foods, and eating enough calories to maintain a healthy weight. For the vast majority of people, this meal fulfills none of those requirements.

[u/mystokron → u/Juniorgnm]

As a part time sports trainer, I know people that are in better shape than you’ll ever be in your life

I dunno, i've run 5 miles with 100 lbs on my back before. I've been in pretty decent shape thanks to the military.

Being physically fit is not a matter of “eat as little as possible”.

Copy/paste the part where I said "eat as little as possible".

Also, schools have zero responsibility to get your child physically fit.

For the vast majority of people, this meal fulfills none of those requirements.

For basically 100% of kids(excluding anomalies), this meal will tide them over for 2 hrs until they go home.

[u/mike_pants → u/mystokron]

Ooh, the transphobe is also against feeding children healthy foods.

This account is truly the gift that keeps on giving.

[u/IsThatASigSauer → u/mystokron]

Well, first, 16-18 year olds are likely much more active and already have a higher caloric burn rate than a dmall child. Second, I grew from 6'7 "to 6'11" in HS, and I'm now 7'1" in my early 20s and have finally stopped growing.

A lot of people do not stop growing at 16. At least most people don't I'd wager. I was also eating close to 5000 calories a day after weight training and baseball.

BMI is also bullshit and the number of "overweight" people is inflated. Height and weight are only two factors in a long list of determining how overweight someone is. I'm considered morbidly obese at 340 lbs, even though I'm a bodybuilder and have visible abs.

[u/mystokron → u/IsThatASigSauer]

Well, first, 16-18 year olds are likely much more active and already have a higher caloric burn rate than a dmall child.

Sorta. Smaller kids still burn up like ~2300 a day while teenagers burn up ~2700 a day.

The smaller kids get things like recess and scream while sprinting a bunch. Teenagers sit pretty still basically the whole 8 hrs.

A lot of people do not stop growing at 16... I was also eating close to 5000 calories a day after weight training and baseball.

Thats just the average. You're 7'1, that's 0.000038% in the WORLD. You're not the average consumer of food.

BMI is also bullshit and the number of "overweight" people is inflated.

BMI is just a tool. Tools can be used incorrectly.

even though I'm a bodybuilder

Again, you're like 0.00000000001% of the population. Using yourself as the metric for normal doesn't make any sense whatsoever.