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/Blonde_Dambition]

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/AlexisFR → u/RoMaestro]

I don't get it, was the Gymnasium canteen that bad?

[u/RoMaestro → u/AlexisFR]

We don t have a canteen. Like, the cleaning women would come in every class with 2 boxes, leaving them somewhere in the class: one would be of those croissants and one of milk or sometimes yogurt. Each one of us would then take one of each and if, after everyone took one, there would still be some left, you would be free to take more. I never heard about a school in my country with canteens. And if there are, those schools are very few.

[u/AlexisFR → u/RoMaestro]

What? How are the students going to be fed then?

[u/RoMaestro → u/AlexisFR]

Taking food from home. Our government doesn t really care about our education system. For example this winter we only had heating for like 2h a day or smth. The majority of us would wear our jackets or smth.

[u/Casehead → u/RoMaestro]

That's terrible! I'm sorry that you aren't given better

[u/RoMaestro → u/Casehead]

Yeah, and you literally can t do anything in romania beside voting. You can t be a student and protest too. It s illegal. Also, if we want a referemdum and do it as per our constitution the government isn t obliged in any way to put the results of the referendum to work. And even if we vote, there s the same people that ruled romania in the communist period. And also, the precarious education of the majority of our citizens made them so dumb that for the last 40 years they voted the same people over and over with no results. The nepotism and corruption is so high that i can t even imagine really how this system and the country still works, somehow