“We are advocating for really great experiences that students can have with food and nutrition education,” Pamela Koch said.
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The other really important learning is that basically for this school year, school meals are free for all students. And that is called Universal free meals. And basically there's a lot of debates over whether when we have government programs, they should be universal, like this is, versus targeted for those who need it. I know a lot of other advocates and academics feel the same way that I do on this.
Right now, it's often seen as a poverty program that happens to be run in schools. And so just as an example, almost all schools will describe where they are by the percentage of students that qualify for free and reduced price lunch. It is reinforcing that this is a poverty program in schools, and that program is really only for poor children.
I can tell you, there's a lot of countries around the world that really see school meals as an educational opportunity. Many, many countries really see school meals as an educational part of the day in a way to teach students about food and culture and health and eating and community and less formal ways of interacting with each other.