Bad lunches ADVERTISING Bad lunches In my opinion, school lunches need to be restaurant-quality. Quite simply, they’re bad. Really bad. Some of my friends have started talking about the mystery meat the lunches have each day. The potatoes even taste
Bad lunches
In my opinion, school lunches need to be restaurant-quality. Quite simply, they’re bad. Really bad.
Some of my friends have started talking about the mystery meat the lunches have each day. The potatoes even taste like wood. The only thing I can even eat is fruit and, sometimes, the chili. If I eat the food the cafeteria serves, I will get sick to my stomach.
The problem is, I need to eat because I have baseball practice after school most days. And the teachers tell me that I need to eat to have brain power in my classes.
For all of these reasons, I wanted to give my opinion, hoping others feel the same way.
If there are enough of us who feel strongly that the food is so bad, maybe there will be a change. Thank you for listening to my opinion.
Will Mitchell
Honolulu
Money to burn
I’m glad the Legislature is in session. Since it controls the pocketbook, this could be interesting reading. For my years of service, I just received from the Department of Education a plaque, letter of appreciation and certificate in an impressive folder. Postage cost $2.87. The large envelope cost about 30 cents.
Sounds impressive and thoughtful, but my last day of work was Sept. 30, 2011 — 40 months ago. What took them so long?
Thankfully, I’m still living. If not, my wife would have had to figure out what to do with these belated DOE parting gifts. It appears that the DOE has money to burn, paying postage and mailing perhaps hundreds of plaques, letters, folders and certificates to teachers many years after they retired.
Is no one watching to ensure our tax dollars are not spent so wastefully?
To our legislators: Is this how you want your DOE appropriations spent? I hope not.
Richard Dinges
Hilo
Beware TPP
The Trans-Pacific Partnership has but one purpose, and that is to protect their corporate profits at the expense of all else, meaning everybody who is not one of them.
Although this is a slight exaggeration, the way their laws are written, if you breathe incorrectly, they’ll sue you until you bleed, although later on, it might not be an exaggeration at all.
If you are not one of them, and you are not opposing these horribly secretive talks, you are essentially giving away your rights without a fight to a corporate conglomerate that would rather you accidentally violate one of their laws so they could sue you to death. Don’t think they won’t!
Dave Kisor
Pahoa
