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LAUSD Students Roundly Reject Healthier School Lunch Menu

Some people will try to commodify anything and everything pretending it's in the interests of the consumer, but we know who it usually benefits and, in this case, it sure as hell wouldn't be the kids.
Yes, because kids are benefiting now under socialized schools. They're the educational equivalent of the post office.
 
Yes, because kids are benefiting now under socialized schools. They're the educational equivalent of the post office.
Sorry, I've don't get that reference, not being in the US. Post offices the world over are in the do-do however, unsurprising since most business is now done electronically.
 
Sorry, I've don't get that reference, not being in the US. Post offices the world over are in the do-do however, unsurprising since most business is now done electronically.
Sorry, didn't mean to be obtuse. My contention is that our current socialized school system isn't serving kids well as it is, and in my opinion it is failing for the same reason that any socialized institution get's the pants beat off it when facing competition from the private sector.
 
Sorry, didn't mean to be obtuse. My contention is that our current socialized school system isn't serving kids well as it is, and in my opinion it is failing for the same reason that any socialized institution get's the pants beat off it when facing competition from the private sector.

IMO private systems will fail in places like D.C. also.
 
I like how liberals are using the "they can bring their own lunch if they don't like it" argument. Wait, I thought the poor couldn't do "insert topic" because they were poor? Oh the hypocrisy! I love it!
 
You do realize this says "panned," not "planned," right?


Eithe way the food the students ate the the comminity taste tests and what was served at the schools were not the same.
L.A. schools' healthful school lunches panned by LAUSD students - latimes.com

For months before introducing the new fare, the district held community taste tests and collected 300,000 comments — 75% of which were positive, Binkle said.

But Barrett said the debut was a "disaster." Participation plunged by more than 13%, he said. About two-fifths of the loss was tied to 99 schools that temporarily resumed requiring

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Students have embraced about half of the new fare, according to Binkle; the salads and vegetarian tamales in particular have been popular.

But some students said they still are not eating — including those who liked the food at the taste tests.

Andre Jahchan, a 16-year-old sophomore at Esteban Torres High School, said the food was "super good" at the summer tasting at L.A. Unified's central kitchen. But on campus, he said, the chicken pozole was watery, the vegetable tamale was burned and hard, and noodles were soggy.
 
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I applaud the entrepreneurial spirit, wholesale rejection of planned forced living and frankly just kids being kids in this whole affair. You cannot force people to live the way you want them too, not in a free society.

This is amazing. I love it.
 
Sorry, didn't mean to be obtuse. My contention is that our current socialized school system isn't serving kids well as it is, and in my opinion it is failing for the same reason that any socialized institution get's the pants beat off it when facing competition from the private sector.
I'd certainly question that assertion. In the UK the privatisation of the railways, British Airways, postal service, energy suppliers and steel industry resulted in poorer service to customers, widespread job losses and benefits only to share holders.
 
After reading through the posts I would like to see the lunch program done away with. Saves taxpayers money and for those that don't bring their lunch get less calories .

It is amazing so many of us made it through school without such programs. There are other means/programs for the "poor" to get food for their kids and provide lunches.
 
I'd certainly question that assertion. In the UK the privatisation of the railways, British Airways, postal service, energy suppliers and steel industry resulted in poorer service to customers, widespread job losses and benefits only to share holders.
Interesting. I'll have to look into those examples.
 
It is amazing so many of us made it through school without such programs. There are other means/programs for the "poor" to get food for their kids and provide lunches.
It's probably a part of the reason you have the obesity and Type II diabetes problem that you have now. Perhaps you have another explanation for it.
 
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