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• W318159308 abstract "Every morning for seven years, Linda Desrosiers packed her lunch before heading to work as a high-school cook. wouldn't touch the they had us make, she says. People looked at it and smelled it, but no one ate School janitors in Woonsocket, Rhode Island, an impoverished textile- mill town, confirm Desrosiers's stories of platefuls of grayish green beans and beef surprise winding up in the dumpster. One janitor said he changed the high school's industrial-sized garbage bags at least twice in each of the three lunch periods. In recent months, liberals led by President Clinton have argued that the federal school lunch program ain't broke and shouldn't be fixed. They argue, persuasively, that kids who are hungry won't learn. But they also make the false assumption that students actually eat the meals that the government subsidizes. Rhode Island is proving that students' nutrition levels can improve dramatically when subsidies for school meals are slashed. This academic year, the state of Rhode Island radically reformed its school-lunch program by dumping a quarter-century of centrally planned purchasing, hiring, and cooking. state cut its $11-million school- lunch appropriation to less than $200,000 and fired all but 11 of the 780 workers who administered, cooked, and served the lunches. Now, private food-service contractors like Marriott and ARA Corp. plan the menus and feed the students. school districts still get reimbursement from Washington, but the federal money is sent directly to the local districts on a per-meal basis. As a result, combined federal and state subsidies have fallen from more than $23 million in 1993-94 to $12 million -- a 48 percent cut. result: Kids are eating better. In the past seven months, student participation in school-lunch programs has soared, nutrition levels have risen to among the best in the nation, and poor school districts like Woonsocket are generating a profit. Brandon Powers, a sixth-grader at Woonsocket Elementary School, says the only downside of the privatized system is that it has put an end to daily school-slop sculpture contests. Now the is pretty good, he says, so people prefer to eat it rather than build with Even Desrosiers, now a cook for Marriott, eats it every day. Students at North Smithfield High School now eat their hamburgers instead of conducting experiments on the effects of mustard, catsup, and relish on burger flight. And students at a magnet high school in Providence no longer request extra gravy with their mashed potatoes just to provide greater contrast for finger-painting with their food. School officials back up students' claims that they are eating more. Since a private contractor took over Woonsocket High School's lunch program, janitors haul away 75 percent less garbage from the school cafeteria. Irene Scripsack, the business manager for the North Smithfield school district, says her janitors only collect 5 percent as much garbage as they used to. Scripsack won't say how often she ate the state's food, but admits it was quite rare. The state-run program suffered from what I call 'orange-ravioli syndrome,' says John Caparco, the principal of Woonsocket High School. Just providing students should eat does not mean they'll eat it. They were simply out to lunch when it came to making the appealing. Caparco admits even he didn't eat the old food. Now I get it all the time. Ellen McKenna, a junior dietetics major at the University of Rhode Island, demonstrated that plate waste was cut dramatically at schools that used private contractors. For instance, she found that most of the hot- trays were completely cleared of food before they were emptied in the trash at Marriott's Potter-Burns Elementary School cafeteria in Pawtucket, where 32 percent of the students are eligible for free or reduced-price meals. Likewise, at ARA's Central Falls Elementary School, where 89 percent of the students qualify for free or reduced-price meals, students ate almost all of their carrots, breads, burritos, and sandwiches. …" @default.
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• W318159308 title "Happy Meals: When Lunch Subsidies Are Chopped, Kids Eat Better." @default.
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