School Lunch in Kansas

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WICHITA, Kan. (KWCH) A Kansas mother is raising concern about schools being able to provide an adequate lunch to students.


Rachel Green posted a photo of her daughter's school lunch at Hutchinson High School to Facebook on Wednesday.

She said her daughter had the last lunch rotation of the day and all that was left was a "nasty, discolored hot dog, a round bun (because they had run out of hot dogs buns) and beans."

Green said she couldn't believe she had been charged $2.70 for the meal that didn't include fries or veggies.

Eyewitness News reached out to the Hutchinson School District who said the principal had made contact with Green about the lunch and refunded her daughter's account.

more (pic at link)
http://www.kwch.com/content/news/Hutchinson-mom-raises-concerns-about-daughters-school-lunch-464239033.html

The Republican plan in action

[tazkcmo]

1. Private Concessions Providers

Treat America. Aramark and others over charge our school districts and make a profit by under serving our children, underpaying their employees and buying the cheapest crap Sysco has to offer all with the full support of GOPee dominated school boards and brain washed rubes.

$2.70 for a hot dog. Children. Our most important resource, my ass.

[Eliot Rosewater]

2. GOP wants education to die and not just education.

The Alabama election results show that educated people BY FAR vote for democrats.

[left-of-center2012]

3. Students in earlier lunches can take all they want?

I graduated in '64, and we'd tell a server what we wanted as we went down the line,
and the server put our portion on the tray.

[DURHAM D]

4. I see that some of the posters blame Michelle Obama.

Guess that is Kansas for you.

[procon]

6. They take no responsibilty for the actions of the Republicans they elected

to screw them over and cut funding for education that will result in a generation of Kansas citizens who are unlikely to rise about minimum wage jobs and remained locked in poverty. Smart.

[Kentonio]

5. "couldn't believe it didn't include fries or veggies"..

Fries.. That there says it all really..

[xmas74]

9. I understand the fries comment

Since it was a hot dog school lunch usually includes fries, veggies and fruit with that meal.

[DoctorJoJo]

7. As Dorothy Said (updated version)...

"Toto, we're not in Kansas anymore! Thank God we are out of Brownnose's Repuke hell hole! They are still waiting for all that money to trickle down, as Arthur Laffer promised."

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

8. A lot of schools don't cook on site any more.

The meals are either cooked at a central kitchen and delivered, or they buy pre-made, typically frozen stuff that's heated at the school.

In reality it would be vastly cheaper to cook at the school but the false economy mentality of outsourcing everything has taken over everywhere.

[xmas74]

10. They refuse to do so

Because they would need to hire actual cooks, at a decent wage with full time hours and benefits.

(I know this from experience. I was a cafeteria supervisor and watched how,as each lunch lady retired they refused to hire anyone in her place. This was one of the big three,btw. It's how they all do business. )

[Mosby]

12. I worked in a juvenile jail

Three meal per day for about 1200 kids were prepared by the staff and kids. Some of the meals were really good, like the baked chicken and the breakfasts. I think the average meal cost less than a dollar.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

15. I do volunteer work at a homeless shelter.

I help prepare and serve meals. Cooking from scratch is remarkably inexpensive. Plus, I've learned to prepare mass quantities. Oh, and for those who might want to know, Sam's Club is rarely the least expensive source for food.

And yeah, the per-meal cost isn't that high, but it seems like a lot when one person undertakes to fix a main dish for 80 people. I did once did spaghetti for 150, and because I made the sauce it simply didn't cost much. Including the ground meat I think I spent 50 or 60 dollars.

[JimBeard]

11. Back in the Day, my school meals were cooked on site and they were good but

we always had the complainers. They made the best white cake with chocolate frosting. I wish I could get that today.

[CrispyQ]

13. We need a national movement to petition for free hot breakfast & lunch program for all kids, K-12.

I'm not kidding. WTF? How many martini lunches, do you think our reps & senators are treated to, so they can give those very same contributors big sloppy Christmas tax cut, but we can't give every kid two free meals a day? And a big segment of our population claims we are a Christian nation?

[Nevernose]

14. Fancy pants folks there

We’ve been doing this to our underfunded students (worst in the nation in funding) for decades. Pizza and tater tots is on the menu literally daily.

The Department of Agriculture reimburses the same no matter what the school pays for the meal. So if the school can meet the minimal nutrition requirements for $.35 and then charge $2.70, it’s a profit of $2.35 per lunch.

Capitalism! Hip hip, hooray!