Have you ever wonder why as a child did we get junk foods like cupcakes for breakfast and pizza for lunch? At least, that's what I personally got everyday for school lunch. It was rare for kids to see healthy foods like salads, since the options for healthy foods was limited. Why was it limited? As you can see on the picture to my left side, instead of eating nutritious sandwich like the picture above. Some schools decided to spend their money on equipment like sprinklers. As sad as that is it gets worse, lately on the April 9, 2013 in a Massachusetts middle school some kids got turned away from school lunches because their parents didn't pay a dollar fee for their lunch. Personally, what the school is doing to these kids it's abuse just cause they feel the need to have the children's lunch money to cover unnecessary expenses like equipment's.
"In most cases, the cash-strapped districts used the misappropriated funds to pay for other expenses, such as salaries and equipment"
"The cafeteria fund diversions have led to cost-cutting measures, such as shorter lunch periods, inadequate staffing and serving processed foods instead of fresh fruits and vegetables"
"The cases mentioned in the report may only represent a fraction of misappropriated meal money in California because the state doesn't have the resources to monitor how its nearly 3,000 school districts spend their cafeteria funds"
Chea, a reporter from the San Francisco newspaper, stated the quotes above how school use their money ineffectively affecting the children in the schools. In other words, kids don't eat healthy foods, and get shorter lunches because schools are trying to save money to pay their staff members or buy materialize items instead of caring for the children's well-being.
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