At some point we have lost the battle of school canteens. I do not know if due to the lack of use that has brought the day continues in many communities or why, but somehow we have resigned ourselves to the fact that there are no kitchens in the centers, that children eat precooked and heated food, to which From 12 years, in general, they lose de facto The right to dining room, that there are no scholarships, for concerted schools – which should be a public service – use them to finance.
Or, as we have known this week, that we know that one in three of those that still are offered a service as little nutritious improvable and the news goes completely unnoticed. Yes, at school or AMPA or initiatives are made, but the matter has been out of public policies.
Around a third of school canteens in Spain offer in their menus more fried and less vegetables than recommended: 29.15% of the centers include three or more fried rations a week and 37% serve two or less times fresh vegetables, according to the Last report of the National Food Chain Office of the Food Chain. Both issues are wrong: there are plenty of fried and vegetables are missing, according to all recommendations.
The report also points it to the idea that transferred you before: the dining room serves worse. An example among many is in the offer of drinks. Before it was impossible to find anything other than water. Today there are those that offer soft drinks, which has led the government to announce that it will prohibit this practice.
School dining rooms are Much more than a site in which we put the kids (less and less) during that pair of hours between the morning and afternoon classes. For some families, school food is the only decent that they will do all day, a right that as I said we remove the children of 12 years when they pass to the institute, where the public sector has normalized that there is no dining room .
This important is the dining room, and only with this fact it is difficult to understand that scholarships are scattered, as happens, attention, one million families. Or, better yet, that it is not directly a universal service, “an idea that is neither so crazy nor so ambitious,” one of the main experts in the field explained a while ago, Donald Bundy. You can think of few better things to invest and from here we will continue to insist on the importance of school canteens.
Of course, with all these basic problems we are not prepared to have the debate of whether a school must offer vegan alternatives in its menu. But we are not prepared (read the comments section of the article if you want to check it) does not mean that it is not happening.
Before continuing with other issues, a mention of the NGO Educo, which does not cease its efforts to put school canteens in the center of the conversation.
This week we talked about …
- The government changes the approval system for dentists. Good news for foreign dentists, who today have almost impossible to validate their titles because the process requires them to take an exam that nobody approves years ago. That forces these professionals to work as hygienists on the optimistic stage, the most basic profile in the clinics, with the personal implications that it has.
- Dentists are just a part of the entire group of people who suffer with approval. The whole process is a toothache: they are several years of waiting and no guarantee of success, although it seems that in recent years is improving a little.
- The UPV investigates a teacher for comments “fascists, transfobos and racist”. And homophobic and Francoists, there are everyone. The teacher in question gives class at the Faculty of Pharmacy. It is the second similar case that is lived in the Basque Public University in a few months, after that of a substitute professor who ended up being fired.
- Beyond these specific cases, it is worrying that these types of demonstrations are becoming more common in the university, which is no stranger to the ultra wave that Europe lives – and the species of need that their followers feel to proclaim it. Nor is it a matter of teachers only: a few days ago it was a group of students at the University of Oviedo who exhibited their racism by campus.
To upload note
- Intelligence does not determine school success. It can help achieve excellence, it is not use for nothing, but science has long found that other factors are more important. Dedication, the study techniques that no one ever teaches us, patience, didactic resources and perseverance influence intelligence. It is a fairly settled knowledge among researchers (and teachers), but that Families and students have a hard time internalizing.
- A pedagogue to literate six million people. It is never a bad time to recover the figure of Manuel Bartolomé Cossío. It was the “soul and body” of the pedagogical missions promoted by the government of the Second Republic to bring education and culture to the peoples. It was also an advanced time and almost to ours: he proposed measures – coeducation, the refusal to religious indoctrination in the teaching centers or the creative use of knowledge against merely accumulating memorization – which are still discussed today. If you don’t know who is or not to land, I invite you to know it, it is a key figure.
Here I leave it for today.
A good week passes.
Until next Tuesday!
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