Health Agency Polls Satisfaction With School Meals
The National Institute for Health Development is conducting a poll in 50 general education schools to determine whether students and administrators are satisfied with school meals.
"Although school lunches received a lot of public attention last year, we still lack an overview of the food that schools offer," an agency expert, Tagli Pitsi, said in a press release.
The agency's questionnaire will reach 1,200 students from various grade levels, as well as administrators and cafeteria personnel. Results will be released in April.
Primary school students (grades 1 to 6) have been able to lunch for free since 2002. Secondary school meals have also been subsidized by the state since 2006. Since last year, the daily subsidy for one meal per grade school student was 78 cents. The cost shortfall is covered by municipalities or parents on the secondary school level.
Ott Tammik