I work in an elementary school as a lunch monitor and you should see what some of these kids get for lunch. It's not school lunch I'm talking about. The lunches the parents are sending in with their kids!! Awful!!! Mcdonalds, Duncan Donuts, soda, bag of cookies as a lunch... Everyday the children are served 5 servings of something. Milk, fruit, vegetable, meat and bread. Today as an example... they had a choice of whole wheat pizza, sliced turkey lettuce tomato on wrap, peanut butter and jelly, yogurt ,cheese sandwich(wheat bread) ...then they get peaches,carrots and celery sticks w/dip.... and choice of milk..choc. straw. 1%white. skim white. This is alot of food. But it is portioned appropriately. Most of the problems are because the parents don't portion control. In the school they have too. It's called government regulation. The lunch ladies are given a monthly menu and are told to follow it. They don't decide what to make, but are told what to make.
No school is perfect, but alot of the pointing of the fingers should be the parents..... They think a quick fix is a bag of chips and a soda! And that is what they send in!!!