Researchers David N. Figlio and Joshua Winicki took a look at
elementary school lunch menus in 23 randomly chosen districts across Virginia, where schools face penalties if most of their students continue to fail state Standards of Learning tests.
At the start of the 2012 — 2013 school year, the district raised the price
of elementary school lunches by 65 cents to $ 2, although it could have raised the price incrementally over several years instead.
But in terms of the tone used by the lunch room volunteers — I will say that my two kids are now old veterans of public
elementary school lunch rooms and they've certainly endured their share of barking lunch room monitors.
From this first post expressing shock
at elementary school lunch entrée choices of pizza or hot dog, to this post about how the School Lunch Controversy Ended Up on TV, to this one about How to Get Organics and Healthier Foods Into the Schools, to attending local and regional PTA meetings with our school district's head of nutrition services, I've been asking questions....
I then sent Jimmy through my Houston district's
elementary school lunch line over the course of a single week, letting him pick and choose from the week's menu as he wished (lots of chocolate milk, tacos, burgers and the rest).
Peanut butter sandwiches may be a staple of
elementary school lunch bags, but a North Shore district is considering banning all peanut products from its schools.
But then I started thinking about the
typical elementary school lunch room: children talking, laughing, shouting and sometimes playfully shoving each other as they eat.
We can say this because we really looked, even deeply looked at 30
elementary school lunch menus between two industrialized countries: France and America.
Fla, Md Schools Have Top Lunches For the second year in a row, Pinellas County (Florida)
elementary school lunch programs have scored the highest marks in the nation for nutrition.
Longtime readers may remember my «Notes from the Field» feature, where I'd pop into my kids»
elementary school lunch room regularly to snap photos and talk with the kids about what they were eating.
I'm pretty sure the last time I had a sloppy joe was in
an elementary school lunch haha!
Don't get me wrong, I have had some really good ones: my mom's, Mrs. Estrada's (
my elementary school lunch lady), and El Patio restaurant in Austin, Texas.
Prices for French lunch are subsidized by the city: 2.20 euros (about 2.90 $) for
an elementary school lunch.
Longtime readers may remember my» Notes from the Field» feature, where I'd pop into my kids»
elementary school lunch room regularly to -LSB-...]
This would be a helpful book to me as I am
an elementary school lunch lady and would be interested in new ideas of how kids could eat better with out many squabbles.
And why are they serving Doritos as part of
an elementary school lunch menu?
But by desire was hindered by thoughts of a early 2000s «skort» standing in
an elementary school lunch line, quite a rough time in my otherwise stylish life.
In its latest «report card» on the subject, the health watchdog group graded the nutritional quality of
the elementary school lunches served in 18 of the largest school districts participating in the federally funded National School Lunch Program.