Should school(s) have healthier meal(s). Yes they should. Child Obesity is I big issue. Too many children, and teens are over weight. Our school(s) need the necessary changes. It sickens me to see unhealthy meal(s) at school(s). It doesn't have to be expensive to be healthy. It can improve on the health over the world of tomorrow. They are the future. They are the next generation. So improve them. Improve the health of tomorrow. Improve the health of the future generation(s). Vote yes for a tomorrow. Do you want the next generation overweight. The more overweight children, and teens are the more sloppy they are. It would decrease littering and improve on there happiness. Obesity causes depression. So vote yes for a tomorrow.

Schools aren't the only place kids eat. If schools don't have something kids like, they'll just go to the McDonald's across the street and the school will lose money.

This. I mean, parents should worry about their kids health. It doesn't take that long to pack a simple lunch. I'm homeschooled, so I wouldn't know much, but really, you just let your kid get fat?

I believe it is a mixture of parent and school. It would be better if schools served both healthy and other foods. It is a decision one has to make. Even if a parent packs a lunch doesn't necessarily mean the child will eat it. Children need to be taught what is good and what is bad, but after that it is up to them.

My mum works as a lunch supervisor at my old middle school and she always sees kids throwing out their whole lunch. Then they either buy a burger or they just don't eat.

She always says she'd rather us bring something home if we don't like it 'cause then at least she knows we don't like it and there's no point in packing it if we're just gonna throw it out. Then, she tries to find out what we do like so she can pack us that. For example, she would give me juice in one of those tuperwear sippy cup things. At 13, I did not want to drink out of a sippy cup. So she started buying me juice boxes instead but made sure they were healthy ones.

Honestly, kids are going to like at least something from each food group. My brother was the pickiest eater ever especially with fruit but the few fruits he did like were oranges, raspberries, and strawberries so my mum would just give him a shit load of oranges, raspberries, and strawberries.

In between. If the school's feeding the child, they have a responsibility to not feed them garbage.

But if the school doesn't supply the lunch, as is usually the case here, they shouldn't be policing childrens' lunchboxes, not letting them eat what they brought and forcing them to buy milk they won't drink, sending passive-aggressive notes home with the child "suggesting" more fresh fruits and veggies, etc., beyond the obvious "don't bring peanut butter if someone in the same class has a life-threatening peanut allergy" and "please feed them *something*". Sometimes you just have to send your kids with what they'll eat, or with what you can afford, because either's better than going hungry.

Here, they're starting to do school-wide bans of the new "school-safe" no-nut peanut butter substitutes. Because they look like peanut butter, and could be mistaken for it. I'm not sure how merely *seeing* something that looks like peanut butter in someone else's lunch could send a child into anaphylactic shock, but that's school boards for you. If someone really wanted to sneak peanuts in, they'd do it, whether they could claim it was the safe butter or not. These are the same people that won't help a four year old zip up her jacket at recess - if she can't do it all by herself, she's going outside with it wide open. In the middle of winter. In Canada. And this isn't even part of the work-to-rule thing.

They should have healthy options for those who want healthy, but good food choices start at home, with the parents making the right choices for their children and teaching them how to do the same.

I have talked to people and you know what kids do when they can only choose "healthy" food? They go home and pig out on the tasty food there. So either way, we lose because parents aren't teaching their kids to make healthy food choices and all.

Also, kids can bring lunches from home instead of paying the school to feed them.

I think they should have better food. I'm currently in high school at the moment and instead of giving us better food, my school if just giving us lesser amounts of greasy food to cut back on calories. Calories are fine if they are from good foods, but when its something from greased soaked pizza and a mac and cheese that looks like it has yellow colored glue in it instead of cheese, there are some issues. I refuse to eat the food at the school I go to. I often have just a small fiber one granola bar; but while that may keep me threw the day until dinner, it wont keep athletes for very long since they'll burn it up quickly. I read that someone posted that we'll just go to McDonald's. We only have a Subway in town. The closest McDonald's is a thirty minute drive away.