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If studies are increasingly showing that a nutritional, balanced meal is an important factor in a student’s ability to learn and focus in school, why are Hawaii public school students still eating their lunches out of cans?
My 12-year-old younger brother is not a picky eater, but he would rather come home hungry than eat the mushy frozen vegetables or the slimy lump of tuna his public school throws onto his lunch tray.
I am by no means saying that public school cafeterias should become organic farms and serve students only non-GMO fruits and vegetables. But it is reasonable to ask that Department of Education officials provide food for students that they themselves would not mind eating every day for lunch.
Emi Toguchi
Manoa
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