Patch Blog: School Nutrition

Los Angeles Unified School District’s attempt to offer up healthy food for its students is commendable but the mass rejection of that food by those students is predictable.    

Schools throughout the nation have for too long served up 'what the kids like to eat,' including sodium, sugar and fat-laden foods. In the last few years - after seeing the results of their daily offerings - healthier foods don’t stand a chance.   

I can’t help but wonder, though, when it became the responsibility of public schools to provide proper nutrition for its students.   

When did our children stop packing lunches from home, where parents controlled what they ate during the day?   

When did they abandon that responsibility and decide to thrust a $5 bill into their children’s hands to buy what they wanted from vending machines?     

For those parents who say they don’t have the time/money to see to their child’s basic nutrition, I have to wonder how it was that they decided to have children in the first place.