Fast food at school
Broken Arrow High School students aren’t allowed to leave campus for lunch, but beginning next year they’ll have an opportunity to eat at a popular fast-food chain. Broken Arrow will become the state’s first public school system to have a Subway on campus. Students will have a choice among five or six of the healthier sandwiches and will be able to dress their sandwiches at a self-serve vegetable bar. The sandwiches will be served with fruit, vegetables and milk and will be considered a “reimbursable” meal under the federal school lunch program. Unlike regular Subway franchises, chips or soda won’t be available. About 60 U.S. public schools have Subway franchises on campus. The company waives the franchise fee for schools and trains workers for free; the district pays Subway a percentage of the revenue. If the students are lucky, perhaps Subway spokesman Blake Griffin, the NBA star from Oklahoma City, will stop by to sign autographs.
(Photo by Diane Bondareff for SUBWAY)
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So? Subway is a subsidized school lunch? I think the school lunch programs in ALL schools should be reviewed by Congress. Breakfast, lunch, snack, even after school. I think the 53% who pay taxes are a bit tired of the 47% who don’t. I wonder how many of those ‘free lunch’ kids are driving cars or have an X-Box and/or a cellphone, MP3 player, $100+ sneakers. Of course, as a tax paying citizen who can’t identify one’s self as having a child in a school you would like to visit, you are treated like a potential criminal and told to leave. The schools are run more like prisons than educational institutions paid for by mostly property owners.