If you knew you didn't want it, why did you still get a tray of food just to throw it away?
I think the teachers sort of pressure them into getting a tray of food just to encourage them to eat, even if the kids openly state they don't want it or that they are not hungry.
Some of the nutrition stuff (like getting kids to eat veggies and not sugar crap) kinda needs to be forced on the kids. They want stuff that tastes good... with how good we are at modern machining of food, we can make cardboard taste amazing... yet still have the nutritional value of cardboard.
That said, if the end result is food in the dumpster, better off giving it to a local food shelter than to the schools... at least that way it gets used.
Always has been
I try to reason with the kids.
If you knew you didn't want it, why did you still get a tray of food just to throw it away?
I think the teachers sort of pressure them into getting a tray of food just to encourage them to eat, even if the kids openly state they don't want it or that they are not hungry.
SO is an elementary school teacher, each child gets a lunch regardless if it’s wanted or not, they have no say in the matter
Some of the nutrition stuff (like getting kids to eat veggies and not sugar crap) kinda needs to be forced on the kids. They want stuff that tastes good... with how good we are at modern machining of food, we can make cardboard taste amazing... yet still have the nutritional value of cardboard.
That said, if the end result is food in the dumpster, better off giving it to a local food shelter than to the schools... at least that way it gets used.