School Cancels Lunches Due To Oil Price Increase
People all over the world have been hit with the rising prise of oil. Some decide to drive less while others carpool more. A select few take more extreme measures, like a Yokohama Elementary school who decided to cancel lunches.
The Yokohama city education board announced that Ekoda Elementary School would cancel lunch and classes on two days in January as higher oil prices led to food cost increases. Meal costs for the school up to October already surpassed initial estimates by nearly 10%.
The schools prepare their own lunches and receive about $35.00 a month from the students and the schools cannot increase the charge.
This will be the first recorded incident where a school is going to be closed due to rising oil prices and a government official is quoted as calling it “unusual nationwide”.
They barely eat as it is, let alone cancel lunch.
school lunch = Diarrhea
Dam i must be seating on the apple pie again?
If that is a picture of a school lunch for Japanese kids, they are eating much healthier that american kids.
Actually I don’t blame the school for taking this measure. In the US they would just raise the price of lunches, but in Japan the price is fixed and they cannot operate in the red. It is sound fiscal managment.
I think we are going to see this in the US in the near future. School boards are going to have to think about shortening school days to cut down on heating costs and on fuel costs for bussing kids back and forth to school on sub-zero days.
Interesting article!
I could see myself digging into a Japanese school lunch o.O, If only they were a little more sizeable anyway :p
Damn, this is why i wanna move to Japan.
Um.?
Japanese school lunch (kyushoku) totally kick ass….this is crazy news…hopefully they don’t cancel any lunches anytime soon at my schools…read my blog! i live in japan and teach english and eat school lunches everyday!