Free breakfasts
Is providing free breakfasts to students something the school system should be doing?
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Free breakfasts are a good thing for the right students, but the school system could do a much better job of managing expenses.
My wife worked at a school covered under this program and she brought home food constantly because she couldn't stand to see the WASTE.
If a kid puts something on their tray and they don't eat it, it is thrown away, even if it is a packaged good with an unbroken seal. This is a school policy, not a choice or mistake on the part of the child. The same policy prohibits these children from taking these perfectly good food items from the cafeteria so that they could be consumed at a later time.
Some kids would take the same items every single day out of habit and never even break the seal on them. Those items went into the garbage can, unused, day after day after day.
Where is the logic in this?
What kind of lesson does this teach kids about responsibility, conservation & waste?
Posted on January 16, 2008 10:28 AM
In what math does Free = $350000.00
Posted on January 18, 2008 12:59 PM