An enquiry into the envisaged school lunch issue shows politicians' incompetence, media falling over itself in 'reporting', and the utterly sorry state of 'democracy' in the West
"Just do the math: if you pay somewhere around 5 € or US$ 5 per workday = 25 € per week or around 100 € per month, I’m pretty sure it’s quite possible to arrange for a school lunch of one’s choosing for the same amount of money (or less)."
Yes, exactly. And for that amount of money, you actually have quite a bit of choice if you prepare the food yourself. Also, if the picture from your previous post is a photo of an actual school lunch (rather than some random picture of fried meat and potatoes), then school lunch is crap anyway. Essentially, airplane food, day in, day out. Just the kind of diet you want for your kid (not).
So, just get rid of catered school lunch, and let families take care of it. Oh, I'm sure that caterers would start selling their school lunches in supermarkets, and plenty of families would buy those, because it's convenient. Fine. Let the market handle it. The issue of low income families can be addressed the usual way: via cash handouts.
If one relies on others, esp. 'the state', this is what you get: a pseudo kind of entitlement, but you've gotta do as you're told.
There's no-one forcing anyone to 'opt-out' on as many issues as one cares about, and this is so for one particular reason (which I'd like to pompously call 'epimetheus' first axiom'):
'If you treat people like idiots, they will act like they are idiots.'
Running a school canteen is difficult. You can either cook what children like to eat, and make at least a decent amount of money, or cook what the establishment would like children to eat, and become reliant on subsidies. All the experiments are being performed on those children that are too young to pursue alternatives. At my boys' school, the older students are ordering pizza, and having it delivered to school because they are not allowed to leave the school for lunch, anyway...
Oh, and SC Freiburg is currently running second in Fußball-Bundesliga. I am sure its opponents would love compulsory vegetarian diet for the Freiburg players.
"Just do the math: if you pay somewhere around 5 € or US$ 5 per workday = 25 € per week or around 100 € per month, I’m pretty sure it’s quite possible to arrange for a school lunch of one’s choosing for the same amount of money (or less)."
Yes, exactly. And for that amount of money, you actually have quite a bit of choice if you prepare the food yourself. Also, if the picture from your previous post is a photo of an actual school lunch (rather than some random picture of fried meat and potatoes), then school lunch is crap anyway. Essentially, airplane food, day in, day out. Just the kind of diet you want for your kid (not).
So, just get rid of catered school lunch, and let families take care of it. Oh, I'm sure that caterers would start selling their school lunches in supermarkets, and plenty of families would buy those, because it's convenient. Fine. Let the market handle it. The issue of low income families can be addressed the usual way: via cash handouts.
I'm 110% with you on this one.
If one relies on others, esp. 'the state', this is what you get: a pseudo kind of entitlement, but you've gotta do as you're told.
There's no-one forcing anyone to 'opt-out' on as many issues as one cares about, and this is so for one particular reason (which I'd like to pompously call 'epimetheus' first axiom'):
'If you treat people like idiots, they will act like they are idiots.'
Running a school canteen is difficult. You can either cook what children like to eat, and make at least a decent amount of money, or cook what the establishment would like children to eat, and become reliant on subsidies. All the experiments are being performed on those children that are too young to pursue alternatives. At my boys' school, the older students are ordering pizza, and having it delivered to school because they are not allowed to leave the school for lunch, anyway...
Oh, and SC Freiburg is currently running second in Fußball-Bundesliga. I am sure its opponents would love compulsory vegetarian diet for the Freiburg players.
... and Trump.
Oddly, Mr. Trump isn't brought up here. Strange, indeed.
Therefore, I can only give them a grade of 95% for their bulla bulla.