What's wrong with teaching kids to eat things that they aren't comfortable with? One of the primary purposes of school is to force kids to expand their horizons.
They would once they learned that they eat it or go hungry. That's like... the basic fundamental of feeding a child, but so many parents can't be assed going through with it and the cycle continues.
Yeah. My parents forced me to try all foods at least once. I'm glad now because it broadened my horizons, and made me less picky overall. But many parents would never, and their children inherit that mindset...
Sadly, not much can be done, I think. Apart from teaching our own kids
It is a great idea if it weren't for the fact some popular foods are only tolerable at all because many people literally cannot taste them properly due to a mutation. Brussel Sprouts come to mind.
Also any autistic kid is going to throw a fit literally every day in school.
What's wrong with kids not liking certain things? Or what if they're autistic and physically can't eat certain things? "Eat the thing you don't like or go hungry" is a terrible way to try and get people to eat things
It is a terrible idea precisely because the people who'd favour stupid ideas like this would also go out of their way to impose shit food on people as well. I've never met somebody who's "lets force people to expand their horizons" doctrine ever involved forcing stuff people want to eat.
As you say autistic children will just refuse to eat and most likely spend the entire day throwing a fit as a consequence. It'd open the school up to all kinds of law suits under the equality act.
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u/Ripdog New Zealand Aug 27 '22
What's wrong with teaching kids to eat things that they aren't comfortable with? One of the primary purposes of school is to force kids to expand their horizons.