03-03-2025, 06:02 AM
(This post was last modified: 03-03-2025, 06:03 AM by Oh_hunnihunni.)
Apparently the waste question is more about delays in delivery, and the unacceptable quality of the meals rather than any other reason. If hungry kids are rejecting free food then it has to be pretty awful stuff, in my experience that lot will hoover down some pretty dreadful offerings when they have an empty tummy.
Funny thing though about targeting on the basis of demographics, I've known some pretty impoverished parents who provide perfectly adequate lunches for their kids, while some surprisingly well off ones are more inclined to hand over the cash or believe it or not - credit cards for the kids to do their own thing. And those kids then buy vapes instead of lunch...
So I don't envy schools or politicians when it comes to feeding school children. It didn't work back in the fifties and sixties, I doubt there is a perfect 21st century option despite the lobbying by big internationals like Compass. The old style parent run tuck shop might still be the best bet, if only we had more parents available to run them, instead of working to pay off the second mortgage...
Funny thing though about targeting on the basis of demographics, I've known some pretty impoverished parents who provide perfectly adequate lunches for their kids, while some surprisingly well off ones are more inclined to hand over the cash or believe it or not - credit cards for the kids to do their own thing. And those kids then buy vapes instead of lunch...
So I don't envy schools or politicians when it comes to feeding school children. It didn't work back in the fifties and sixties, I doubt there is a perfect 21st century option despite the lobbying by big internationals like Compass. The old style parent run tuck shop might still be the best bet, if only we had more parents available to run them, instead of working to pay off the second mortgage...