The School Cafeteria

So there was a big expose on school cafeteria food on tv. Somewhere about forty five kids got food poisoning from cafeteria food. So the news program toured several cafeterias with health inspectors and found rodent feces, improper food temperatures and general uncleanliness. Then they did a larger study by pulling health inspector reports from two years ago on schools in major cities around the country. All were had major violations 20% or more of the time. Same types of violations...rodents! wrong temperatures! unclean utensils! unclean food containers! They spoke with one school administrator re: hamburgers found 2o degrees under temperature. The administrator said no one would have gotten sick because the were not sitting out long enough. The health inspector disagreed. No apologies, how crazy is that. On national tv this administrator blew it off. I guess I 'll be packing Ava's lunch when she goes to school. Thank God we pay school taxes. We give our children over to strangers for 8 hours a day trusting them with their safety and they can not even give them healthy food.

I guess my "only eat prepackaged food" in high school was not such a bad idea. A bag of chips and an iced tea were probably healthier than anything they were serving.