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no_hypocrisy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-30-11 07:12 AM
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3. Report from "the frontlines".
I substitute teach in a variety of elementary schools in northern New Jersey, particularly a very affluent community. Most of the kids bring their own lunch to school. Some kids get "box lunches". Monday offered them two choices: mozzarella sticks or chicken nuggets and one slice of whole wheat bread. That's it. Not even tomato paste. Yes, the kids are offered a very small bag of very small carrots. (The entire contents would fit in your palm.) And small apples. They bypass those choices and just snarf down the cheese or chicken.

And the "lunches" aren't even made on site. The school kitchen is closed altogether. No staff, no ovens or stoves on. The stuff is made at a central location, a middle school, and driven to the elementary school.
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