Some people believe that the police in the United States get too much financial support while schools and places of learning are underfunded.
To highlight just how underfunded some schools are and how funneling some of the money the police receive into education would help, Twitter user Errvin started a viral thread. They shared a photo of what school lunches in San Diego look like, even though the city’s police force gets an annual budget of 566 million dollars. However, as someone pointed out, Errvin’s comparison wasn’t entirely correct: the school lunch they posted is from a school in Wyoming, not San Diego. But the sentiment still stands.
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Meanwhile, social media users pitched in with their own comparisons: some showed how bad the situation in other parts of the US is while others illustrated how good school lunches look in other parts of the world (France, in particular, looks absolutely magnifique). Scroll down, have a look, and share stories about the school lunches you ate, dear Pandas.
Errvin posted a photo of a school lunch from Wyoming and started a thread about how underfunded education in the US is by referring to school meals
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Meanwhile, someone else showed us what food in German refugee camps looks like
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Here’s a few photos of what some school meals in New York look like
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On the other hand, meals in France look absolutely fantastic and are very nutritious
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Here’s another school lunch from the US
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Vive la France!
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Here’s what school meals look like in some Western countries. Now that’s quality food
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And here’s another US school meal for comparison. We’re not quite sure what this even is
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Meanwhile, South Korea has delicious-looking school lunches
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Compare that to the US again
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If you thought that all UK school lunches look horrible, you’d be wrong
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Here’s what lunches in some Shelby County schools, in Tennessee look like
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And this is what Japanese school kids eat
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Here are some more Western school meals
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Just keep in mind that the issue is more complicated than simply throwing more money at education and hoping that everything works out fine. Changes in school lunches would require psychological changes in American food culture and how the US thinks about nutrition. And that involves a lot of hard work, personal growth, and won’t happen overnight. Not even with an endless supply of money.
It’s no secret that what we eat affects how we feel and how well we perform academically. However, where a kid lives and studies can mean drastically different school lunches. Imagine having to survive from Kindergarten all the way to 12th grade just on cheap junk food and sugary treats.
“When kids eat healthier foods, this can have a really important impact on their cognitive functioning, which can then translate potentially to better academic performance,” Juliana Cohen, an assistant professor of health sciences at Merrimack College in Massachusetts, told CNN. “So really, the healthier school meals are a win for both children and for schools.”
However, even though the situation in the US might not be as good as in some other Western countries, it doesn’t mean that all American students have it bad. Cohen told CNN that the US has some of the best nutrition standards in the world for school meals.
Unfortunately, there are other problems. “We don’t have national standards for the lunch period length, and as a result of that, we see a lot of variability within schools. Some kids have as little as 15 minutes for a lunch period. Some kids have a lot more than that,” Cohen said, pointing out that the less time children have to eat, the less healthy food they will eat.
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