Mikhail Maccoon: "Epic with school nutrition is a lively illustration of an inverted administration pyramid"

"The issue of school food, by and large, is not even the competence of local self -government. This, generally speaking, is the competence of a particular school. Moreover, not even at the level of directorship voluntarism, but parental committees. Because the regions are different, the cities are different, local traditions and infrastructure are different, different schools, parents and children are different," writes the observer on his page on Facebook .

"Starting from family ways and personal features: somewhere they certainly have breakfast, and someone only wakes up for noon, through religion and beliefs: someone does not eat pork, others-beef, the others do not interfere with milk and meat, fourth generally vegetarians, and the fifths are just posting, ending with lactose, others are blurred Strawberries, and someone needs to eat by the clock.

I have a micro -brobble. I was a counselor alone once in my life. Of the 30 children in the detachment - five had restrictions on nutrition. This is not at all the question that needs to be solved by the barracks-building method from the federal center.

The first year in my first school was physically not a dining room (beautiful Soviet architects simply forgot to foresee it in the project), and while it was hastily completed with appendix - every day one of the parents was on duty, responsible for the out of tea, while we ate home "brakes".

Perhaps they will go somewhere in another place - the parents will agree with the local restaurant for some kind of organized business lunch or delivery of lunch, in the third - these will be subscriptions to the dining room, in the fourth - no one will agree on anything, handing the children 100 rubles for independent feed.

At school N1 there will be a halal dining room, N2 - Kosher, N3 - vegetarian, at school N4 it will not be at all, because they solved the issue differently. Another question is how this initiative is sold. Hot nutrition of younger schoolchildren is a response to such a degree of poverty of families when they are unable to feed the child physically.

There are two solutions. The first is to resign with shame. Feeding as a challenge - this is the agenda is completely African. Schools as humanitarian cuisines - this is called do -it -led, request to free the cars.

If for some reason the first is not, then the second is not to powder the brains, building a new vertical, but just pay benefits. Paying parents at the rate of 200 rubles on the school day (there are 173 per year) for each of the 16 million Russian schoolchildren is a miserable 500 billion rubles, 0.5% of GDP, less than 20% of the Moscow budget, 2% of the amount that will be ruined for national projects, without any animation.

Poor families will feed children (in any chosen way), middle families will give the child a new Xbox or go to the cinema. Everyone will be fine: children, parents, economics in general. "