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> These are solvable problems. ... Funding could be increased. ... School lunch expanded. On the subject of school lunches, it's not really a matter of increas
by OldHand2018 7y ago
> These are solvable problems. ... Funding could be increased. ... School lunch expanded.
On the subject of school lunches, it's not really a matter of increased funding. It is deciding to tackle the problem.
Chicago Public Schools serves free breakfast and lunch [1] to all students (not just low-income) using the exact same funding sources that NYC and all other school districts use. They are completely open about how they did it [2]. They completely eliminated the practice of heating up frozen meals, renovated school kitchens and started cooking from scratch and buying directly from farmers.
If only they put this much effort into the rest of the school operations...
[1] https://cps.edu/About_CPS/Departments/Pages/MealRates.aspx https://cps.edu/About_CPS/Departments/Pages/MealRates.aspx
[2] https://drive.google.com/file/d/1I_IRmST0zFCtdok10VnSBMMJ6RvOPV-Z/view https://drive.google.com/file/d/1I_IRmST0zFCtdok10VnSBMMJ6Rv...
- asdfasgasdgasdg 7y agoLunch is free in NYC schools as well. Not sure about breakfast.
- esotericn 7y ago> They completely eliminated the practice of heating up frozen meals This is a thing in US schools? FFS. This puts conversations I have on here about cooking in context, if children are pretty much forced to eat that stuff.