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. JOHN W. BROOKER
Superintendent of Public Instruction

ISSUED MONTHLY

Entered as second-class matter March 21, 1933, at the post oﬁicé
Frankfort, Kentucky, under the Act of August 24, 1912. '

Vol. XI , October, 1943

FOREWORD

This bulletin is written for the purpose of helping superintendents,
principals, and other persons working with the school lunch to in-
augurate and maintain a good school lunch program as a part of the
total educational program. An attempt has been made to show the
need for a school lunch program and to give help on problems in-
curred in the operation of it. The problems dealt with in this bulletin
are managing and ﬁnancing the lunch program, selecting and
equipping the lunch room, planning menus, and maintaining good
health standards and sanitary conditions in the lunch room.

JOHN W. BROOKER,
Superintendent of Public Instruction

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America needs people with sound bodies and alert minds for a
nation is no stronger than its people. The importance of nutrition
education to the health of the nation is being increasingly recognized.
Schools can make a great contribution by improving the health of
school children. The health of a child affects the quality of school
work that he does. A malnourished child has less opportunity to
proﬁt by education than a well nourished child. Dr. Thomas Parr-an,
Surgeon General of the United States Public Health Service, says:

“\Ve are wasting money trying to educate children with half-
starved bodies. They cannot absorb teaching. They hold back
classes, require extra time of teachers, and repeat grades. This
is expensive stupidity, but its immediate cost to our educational
system is as nothing compared to the ultimate cost to the Nation.
Something like 9,000,000 school children are not getting a diet
adequate for health and well-being. And malnutrition is our
greatest producer of ill health. Like nearly fresh ﬁsh, a nearly
adequate diet is not enough. A plan to feed these children prop-
erly would pay incalculable dividends.”

A good school lunch program will contribute to the general health
of children by providing foods which are needed for energy, for regu-
lating the body processes, and for building and repairing body
tissues, and by developing good food habits. Now that many mothers
are working away from home, children do not get the carefully
planned and prepared meals even though there may be more money
in the family for the purchase of nutritious food. In some families
the increased cost of food and the rationing of food makes it difﬁ-
cult for mothers of limited background to provide the nutritious
meals that their children need. Even in the homes of families of
higher income, many children are malnourished because of poor food
habits.

The school lunch should be a vital part of the total school program
and should not be considered just a feeding program. Through the
school lunch program an excellent opportunity is provided for de-
veloping good food habits. Children may learn the foods that should
be eaten daily, what a good lunch is, and how to choose the right kind

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educational value for the pupil.

A description of how one teacher in a Kentucky rural school used

the school lunch as learning experiences for her pupils follows:

At the beginning of the school year the pupils learned the part
that food contributes to health, the foods needed for the day, and
what is needed for lunch. The pupils then planned what they
could do about lunch at school which was to prepare one dish
each day. The rest of the lunch was brought from home and
supplemented this dish. The children who could afford to pay
ten cents a week did so. With this amount of money food, paper
towels and napkins, soap, and kerosene were purchased. Some
commodities were available to use in the dish prepared. The
children planned the menus weekly and they also planned what

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