klooney parent
You can't afford to have people cook food here, just reheat it.
"can't afford" in this case is a choice to spend the absolute minimum possible on school lunches.
And despite spending basically nothing on that lunch, we still charge kids for it
The public blamed the "lazy" lunch ladies of course but the public was the one voting down the school budget to actually pay them to cook. The actual people doing food service have as much agency over the menu as the teen behind the counter at mcdonalds. Those exact same women WERE cooking real food a decade ago. That's how long they had been doing that job.