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Lara MSchool Bans Packed Lunches
April 13th 2011 00:43
Thinking back to my high school days there are certain things that I miss a lot. Playing sports and hanging out with good friends top the list. School lunches do not. In fact school lunches would be buried towards the bottom of that same list. Sure you had your good days and certain meals that those ladies got just right. On those others you always had the fallback option of packing your own lunch. You could put whatever you could scrounge up at home into a brown bag and avoid the stomach aches served at lunchtime. One Chicago school decided to take away that choice from its students.
The reasoning for this crackdown is that kids and parents were packing unhealthy lunch options. Principal Elsa Carmona states, ‘Nutrition wise, it is better for children to eat at school’. She decided to make the change when she noticed sodas and potato chips being substituted for milk and salads. She claims that her school offers excellent quality food that is also healthy for the students.
Many parents and students complain that the food is neither healthy nor very appetizing and that much of it just ends up getting thrown away. They do not understand how this right of packing your own lunch can be taken away when the options at school are far less than appealing.
While I did not grow up in or around Chicago, I know that the options I had to chose from at school were not often tasty or healthy. We had the options of a salad bar or sandwich, but neither was very good and students ended up turning to the fries and soft pretzels for meals. I am all for the idea of teaching students good nutrition at an early age but this mess with not allowing students to pack their own lunch is a little hard for me to swallow.
Home packed lunches banned
The reasoning for this crackdown is that kids and parents were packing unhealthy lunch options. Principal Elsa Carmona states, ‘Nutrition wise, it is better for children to eat at school’. She decided to make the change when she noticed sodas and potato chips being substituted for milk and salads. She claims that her school offers excellent quality food that is also healthy for the students.
Many parents and students complain that the food is neither healthy nor very appetizing and that much of it just ends up getting thrown away. They do not understand how this right of packing your own lunch can be taken away when the options at school are far less than appealing.
Students say school lunches mostly thrown away
While I did not grow up in or around Chicago, I know that the options I had to chose from at school were not often tasty or healthy. We had the options of a salad bar or sandwich, but neither was very good and students ended up turning to the fries and soft pretzels for meals. I am all for the idea of teaching students good nutrition at an early age but this mess with not allowing students to pack their own lunch is a little hard for me to swallow.
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