Unfortunately the numbers add up. With close to 90% of our students on free or reduced lunch and over a third of them considered obese, the Lynn School system has a large degree of responsibility for this problem.
Since usually both breakfast and lunch are provided this accounts for a major portion of the food ingested. The prepackaged fare that is provided contributes significantly to this problem. Doesn't anybody cook anymore. All of the chemicals and additives are just preserving our problems.
We need to start cooking and also serve up some tasty education. The Healthy Harvest Festival at the Ford School last week was a good start.
I see it as a teacher in another system with a similar amount of students receiving free or reduced lunch. So-called juices contain corn syrup. The processed foods contain ingredients I can not even pronounce. And what counts for representatives of the various food groups astounds me. But, it's not the fault of our local schools. It's the fault of our federal government pushing these foods on the kids.
ReplyDeleteYou are right that the federal government is responsible for pushing this foreign language that mssquerades as nutrition. Still it is our duty at the local level to complain even if we thik it is falling on deaf ears. If enough peole shout, they are bound to hear.
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