If Schools Have "Free" Lunch, Should Boys Get Bigger Portions?

This thread fell apart, but again, but you're talking about two different things. School lunch should be equal, providing tampons/pads to women and not to men is more about being equitable. Sure the guys didn't get anything, but they also didn't need anything.

 

How do schools regulate lunch portions? Do they give all students the same meals and portions?

 

I can just see the cafeteria managers now . . .
500 / 3 x ratio of lunch as a meal . . .

 

lol who gives a shit? What kind of happily married well adjusted man starts a thread like this? (That was rhetorical).

 

It varies by school, but most of what I've seen is they will have two options for main dish, and three options for sides. Students choose a main dish and two sides. Plus milk, and sometimes a desert. Some schools have fewer options, some have wildly more. I've seen kids walk out of the same cafeteria with less than 500 calories and over 1000 calories, both paying the same amount.

 

You that's why you responded so many times

 

Not all boys need 500 calories more than girls, especially at lunch. Plus, food and calories is really a person to person thing, and not just a gender thing. Basal metabolic rate, physical activity level, body composition, age, sex, genetics, height, weight, health status, environmental factors and even other stuff not mentioned here all impact caloric needs. So making some sweeping rule that all boys get more food doesn't even make sense - because it would need to be based on some made up statistical average or median. So even if you gave boys more, it wouldn't necessarily be equitable.

But all girls (with a few exceptions because of injury or disability) need feminine products and boy don't need them at all.

 

Because you can eat food at any time throughout the day. They don't need 500 more calories strictly during school lunch, just the day as a whole. A girl can't dictate when they start their period. They can't just say, "oh it's my period, I'll just make it wait until I get home." The blood literally starts when it starts, they don't have a choice. That's why they put tampons in schools for girls, because you never know when it'll happen. The boy can eat a high calorie snack when he gets home.

 

Based on this, I'd say the answer is to have an option that would satisfy the boys' caloric intake "requirements." If the boys want to get something else, their choice. If the girls want that option, so be it. Problem solved, right?

 

There is a point to be made about some of these kids not getting the food they need at home. But that doesn't really support OP's argument (which is too categorical).

 

Who needs information and logic when it comes to gender, calories, and feminine products?

 

As usual I bring in authoritative statistical analysis on important matters and you bring emotion. If Cottonelle doesnt know how much TP people use who does?

In my defense I have a house of all boys including pets so my sample size is small and all I know is that my wife swears you’ll be able to tell when she is dead cuz all the TP in the house will be stack on the toilet not actual in the toilet roll.

 

Yes, that is a definite problem in many places and the food should be available to the kids who can not get the proper amount at home. Should a boy get an extra side? I guess that can be up for debate, but then as others have stated, not everyone is the same. Should the 90 pound 12 year old boy get it but the 120 pound 12 year old girl not? What about the 120 pound 12 year old boy getting it but the 90 pound 12 year old boy not?

It has absolutely nothing to do with a girl getting her period out of the blue during school and needing the proper hygienic products to not have their pants be full of blood. Which is what makes this whole thread weird.

 

Is there a place in this gem of a thread for 'bigger tampons' ?

Wondering if that might provide some of the needed equity and calm flaring tempers on this hot-button issue.


Nvm, I'll just see myself out.

 

I was trying to come up with a "bigger tampons" and MAGA joke that wouldn't get me banned but alas, you'll have to use your imagination

 

I presume this is a state and local issue. Maybe Gov DeSantis should start a campaign that providing feminine hygiene products to Jr and HS girls is woke. ban it state-wide. Then enforce with an iron fist that schools\nurse must tell that 1st time 12 yr old girl "NO!" and send her back to class in tears. Own the libs!
Thank you middle to senior aged white men. Go Maga!

 

The subject of school lunch reminds me of when I was in grade school in a little country school in Bostwick, Florida. And I mean country. I'll never forget going up to the lunchroom counter one day and asking for seconds. The lady behind the counter said, "'Taint nar'n" (pronounced taint nairn). The only time in my many decades of life that I've ever heard that version of "There aren't any."

 

This tampon thing is beyond weird. The girls from the families that can afford them will be using the size and brand tampons they bring from home. School tampons will be relegated to emergencies and girls from families who can't afford them. Anybody that objects to them being provided in those instances should be required to go to work for a day wearing bloody pants.

Bulk Tampax tampons, a name brand, are $80.95 for 500 from Amazon. That's 16 cents each.