Well he’s definitely not an ass or totally deluded. Evidently when he did a similar thing in his native England, the British govt. ponied up a cool Billion or so to upgrade the lunch programs with healthier food.
I wasn’t that surprised by how bad the school lunches here are but I was amazed when he went into one of the first grade classrooms and the kids were totally mystified and couldn’t identify common foods such as tomatoes, beets, or even A POTATO !
Not surprising they didn’t know what an eggplant was, but a potato ? Good grief.
Of course they had no trouble instantly recognizing hamburgers chicken nuggets or pizza.
Heck, they were even served pizza for breakfast.
And when he asked the principal and head cook about putting out knives and forks, they told him it wasn’t necessary since they didn’t know how to use them anyway.
He asked if they were putting him on. They weren’t joking.
They asked him if kindergartners in English schools were given these and he said yes. They wanted documentation of that. They said kids that young didn’t know how to handle them. To which he replied, “then you teach them. This is a school, after all. You teach them how to read, write, do math and lots of other things. Why not this? Do you want to raise a nation of children eating with their hands.”
I found the ignorant attitudes of the adults really surprising.
I hope his efforts succeed but in any event, this is a real eye opener.