Parent Survey Results: (131 respondents!)
Parents feedback: 93% said the hot lunch trial program was "excellent" or "very good"!
Parents' top priorities: (Respondents rated ALL six categories as a 4 or 5 on a 1-5 scale)
- Convenience of not packing lunch (95% support!)
- Organic, sustainable, local, nutritious food (92% support!)
Other priorities:
- Community-building around shared lunch
- Curriculum around food: farm field trips, gardening, etc
- "Eat Green": Modeling good environmental practices
- Food variety: growth opportunity for kids
Common comments:
- Want it to be made part of tuition
- Want more vegetarian, more fruits & veggies, whole grains, etc; not regular dessert (prefer fruit/yogurt)
- Want 100% organic
- Want more choice in daily menu (some kids came home hungry due to lack of choice); too gourmet
- Recycle & compost everything
Price:
- Respondents willing to pay on average: $4.40/day
- Over 80% are willing to pay $4/day
Volunteer / Donate:
- 40% of respondents willing to volunteer regularly!
- 70% of respondents willing or "maybe willing" to donate!
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the blog is great!
ReplyDeletethanks so much for all the hard work and visioning.
i would like to help out, and to see the Seed to Table Program and the Eat Smart Program at TBS become outrageously successful.
as part of our due diligence as a community, could we poll the parents of children who are not buying and eating the beautiful hot lunches offered each wednesday to find out why?
this might help us to foresee future attitudes about the program, in advance!
93% of us, (their parents!!), stated in the survey that the food in the trial program "was excellent or very good", but as i understand it only about 50% of children are buying lunch.
i am just wondering how to interpret the participation gap--ideology versus behavior!...we humans are such a mystery!!!
thanks
I want to strongly support the idea of recycling. I think that for a "green" school, TBS does a fairly poor job of reducing reusing, recycling - depot events often end with parents picking through the garbage to recycle correctly and the necessary bins are often not available. Berkeley has a pretty intensive recycling program and the plastics they don't take can go to the El Cerrito recycling facility.
ReplyDeleteI also have questions about a depot/kitchen renovation. For a school that desperately needs an assembly space and more outdoor rec area, is this a good allocation of resources?
And I heartily support this initiative!
Cathy MacNeal, mom to Charlotte (Sweet Briar)