School directors in the Saratov region were asked to post images of ready-made meals for students on Instagram and other social networks, so that parents could see with their own eyes what their children are being fed.
Since the beginning of the school year, the topic of providing schoolchildren from the 1st to the 4th grade with free hot meals has become one of the main topics for Saratov parents. Mothers and fathers heated the telephone of the regional Ministry of Education, but apparently did not receive any intelligible explanations, since the Rospotrebnadzor Directorate organized hot lines for school meals from September 14 to October 5.
Deputy Prime Minister of the region Irina Sedova posted on her Instagram an appeal for school principals. The official suggested posting photos of school lunches and lunches on social networks for additional parental control.
Of course, a photo of dishes from the school cafeteria is not a bad idea. Previously, schoolchildren themselves dabbled in this, posting photographs of plates with indistinct smears and empty cabbage soup on social networks. If the directors of Saratov schools take the appeal as a recommendation, they will have to try to “present” the dish in the right angle.
However, parental control, which Irina Sedova mentioned, is still in place.
“We can take pictures, display the image of dishes not only on social networks, but also on the website of an educational institution,” expresses the point of view of Sergey Kharkov, director of a secondary school in the village of Kamyshki, Aleksandrovogaysky district, Saratov region. – However, in my opinion, the most effective measure is live parental control. In our school, moms and dads from the Parents’ Committee can watch how meals are prepared for students, and even taste school food. And just to expose photographs of dishes is, in my opinion, an unnecessary use of digitalization, because parents will be able to see the appearance of the dish, but they will not know what products it is prepared from and what it tastes like. Therefore, in schools where parents are interested in good nutrition for their children, they personally supervise the preparation of meals.