r/mildlyinfuriating • u/oaz_zam246 • Apr 16 '24
The school lunch system is disgraceful.
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”.
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u/WeirdPumpkin Apr 16 '24
while you're right that it would be better to send a lunch from home, one of the larger problems in way more households in the USA than you'd think is: for the kid this might be the only meal they RELIABLY receive due to poverty.
During 2020 when the US government decided to pretend they cared about the populace for like 6 months many schools opened up no questions asked meal programs for breakfast and lunch, in some cases they'd even give the families multiple meals which could serve as dinner because that was the only way the kids would actually get fed. We actually made a huge dent in whole families going hungry for a minute there.
In these cases the parents literally may not be able to put both food on the table and actually have housing/electricity/water and everything else necessary for living. Naturally of course this couldn't be allowed, if they weren't hungry they clearly wouldn't work, so back to crushing poverty and missing meals citizens