THIS new era of government bailouts and widespread concern over wasteful spending offers an opportunity to take a hard look at the National School Lunch Program. Launched in 1946 as a public safety net, it has turned out to be a poor investment. It should be redesigned to make our children healthier. Full Story »
Posted by Kaizar Campwala
An interesting article that if it was implemented would fail. The author talks about teaching students to eat healthy and explain how their choices effect their health and environment. Nice idea,but kids don't care about their health when it comes to eating. Put a healthy meal or pizza in front of a child, guess which one they chose?
Also, when the poorer child has to show a ticket of some kind in front of other children, they will not eat.
This is a very reasonable opinion piece, though even opinion pieces often benefit from more detail. It talks about the health benefits that could occur with healthy school lunches, but fails to mention the educational improvements that have come with improved school lunches in some school systems.
As a school board member who is both involved in increasing the number and extent of community and school gardens and in improving the currently abominable, and - until recently - much worse, quality of the breakfasts and lunches in our school system, I am far from unbiased.
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