The lack of nutritional awareness in schools has always been bothersome, but I've noticed more and more that children living in poverty have less access and knowledge about healthy food choices. It's almost impossible to learn if you are hungry or worried about where your next meal will come from. (Meet basic needs is a human instinct!) We know this and fill the kids up with junk food that doesn't feed their brains - just fills their stomachs for a very short time. Most of what we feed our students has been processed, frozen, mass-produced, warmed-up, and looked at with disgust by most children, yet they know they have to EAT!
And then the families living in poverty also have less access to high-quality food outside of school too. There are no grocery stores where I teach!?!
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