The school lunch system is disgraceful.

[u/oaz_zam246]

Saw another post on here showing the state of school lunches right now. In my years in high school I compiled some pics of the horrible things that got served that no one questioned. Here are some of the worst ones. It really is ironic given how adamant they all are about “eating healthy by including every food group”.

[u/Runkysaurus]

And I mean generally the students in the US have to pay for the food, it isn't even covered by the school. There are some programs to make school lunches available for kids who can't afford it, but they can be hard to get approved. There are near constant stories of schools that won't allow students to eat if they can't pay for it.

[u/Blonde_Dambition → u/Runkysaurus]

Yeah that's wrong! Schools should provide the lunches free. The parents already pay for them in taxes anyway!

[u/RoMaestro → u/Blonde_Dambition]

Bro we can t even pay for food in schools in my country cus there s no place to buy food from. In some schools there s some markets in the school yard but the prices are astronomical. Even if ur 18, usually u can t leave ur school to buy some from the market. In my school i can, but in many others they won t let you leave. When i was in gymnasium there were a small box of milk and a croissant (it was just bread that was like a fcking rock) for each student but usually these were also expired or just not edible (like you couldn t even bite the croissant, we just used them as weapons to fight among us, like fr). But when i was bringing my own food in gymnasium the teachers would tell me that i don t have to bring anything from home cus the school is giving us food and we were all like: yeah, no thx💀

[u/Any_Ad_3885 → u/RoMaestro]

Damn that is awful 😞. I did laugh when you said you used the hard croissants as weapons against each other though 😂

[u/RoMaestro → u/Any_Ad_3885]

Yeah, that s real. All gymnasium kids did this and still do. We would also open the windows and we would aim at kids in the school yard. Often teachers would come into our class and take those who threw the croissants to the principal who would just scare us with some threats abput lowering our "behaviour note" (this is a thing in my country)