High school lunch photo shared by NY dad has parents concerned

Yes ma'am. My granddaughter doesn't want to take a lunch in so we work around it the best we can. Kids! What are we going to do with them? She is graduating this year (it's so hard to believe); we will miss her if she decides she needs to try some freedom. We will always have a room for her. :)

Very true ma'am Lt Col Charlie Brown

I can't speak for the other cafeterias, but the one my one granddaughter goes to has 2 menus: The free lunch, or the one you pay for (and it isn't cheap). The free one is exactly as pictured. If you can pay you can get a little better. My granddaughter isn't willing to pay for better, she rather save the money and go with the free lunch. We get food in her on both sides of school. The people who can't afford it get exactly what the picture shows in our school district. Maybe it isn't like that in other school districts. I can't say.

Sorry, Jack, but that might have been true when you went to school, but in most public school cafeterias today that choices are Take It or Leave It.

In that lunch you claim was picked for an agenda, the likely choices were 4 chicken nuggets or no chicken nuggets; a bunch of raw carrots or no raw carrots; 1/2 cup rice, or no rice; one carton of milk, or no milk, 2,1,or 0 packets of ketchup; and 1 or 0 packets of sauce for the chicken nuggets.

Yes, it is possible that there was some other "entree" available, probably even less appetizing than the chicken nuggets.

That's nothing new, back when Ike was president there was a reason I got to go to the brown bagger line!

SFC (Join to see) - I hear you brother.

Lt Col John (Jack) Christensen - Far better food.

Lt Col John (Jack) Christensen - The high school I went to didn't have a cafeteria. It was brown bag or nothing. It was different in those days, the building just didn't have the facilities.