School lunches in the US

[TabulaRasa]

When I started high school in the 1990s, we had an open campus, but students were not allowed to drive over lunch due to liability issues, which rendered being an open campus moot, because there was nowhere to walk within the time constraints to get lunch. But students could go outside, etc. Halfway through, they went to a closed campus, nobody could leave.

We had a full meal line (cost $1.25), and an a la cart line that was mostly snacky/junk food. The a la cart line was much more expensive. Your lunch money would either get you a full meal in the full meal line, or, like, a juice box and a warm pretzel with cheese in the a la cart line.

[yoink]

My school district makes some good delicious food sometimes (though it is unclear why they switched from original BBQ sauce to tangy BBQ sauce).

We have the authority to bring homemade lunches to school. There's no restriction on what we can bring. Our school even sells sodas we can buy.

The only issue is why they seem to never have a 'student choice' in which the students vote for what they have for lunch.

I wish they'd do open lunch, but with adult supervision.