Our school lunches are not real at all. How would you feel if you had to eat cardboard for lunch? Well, imagine the students who eat it daily at Daniel Boone High School. You can’t tell me this is healthy.
We need help because the kids are always hungry, and nowadays the skinny people need to gain weight. School lunches provide approximately one-third of the calories an average child needs for the day, but children who are active and growing fast may require more than others, according to nutrition expert Bonnie Taub-Dix. I agree with her.
If they fed us something with a better taste, no one would be complaining. Tennessee School Nutrition Program says the parents benefit by an economical way to provide a significant amount of a student’s daily nutrition requirement. They really don’t realize how underfed we are and it is almost $3 for a meal that doesn’t even taste good when I can go get a burger and a drink for $2.50 at McDonald’s.
“Improving the quality of the school meals is a critical step in building a healthy future for our kids,” says U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack, but the only flaw with that is we can only get so much of that quality.
You want to think that you are helping us, but it isn’t really for the kids that play sports, who are skinny or who are diabetic.
KALEB HAZELWOOD
Gray
commonsensical writes:
January 17, 2013
2:17 PM
Why would this even be published? The lunches are so much better nutritionally than they used to be. There are many healthy, filling options and much less fried/junk food. The county spends a great deal of money to provide healthier meal options. Yes I know because I went to school at Daniel Boone back in the day and I stupidly ate nothing but pizza, mozzarella sticks, and from the vending machines every day for lunch. I have several family members who currently work in the school system. You guys have parfaits, for goodness sake! And please explain to me why "the skinny people need to gain weight"! Eat your McDonald's on the weekends or bring it to lunch for yourself but please don't inflict that on all of the students' waists!