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Arrey, waste reduction goal is fine, but penalising KG kids
Ah, I see the trouble, bhala. That rule, it might help the accounts book, but the little ones—they cannot understand 'policy,' only their hungry belly. My mother always said, "A rule that forgets the smallest is not a good rule." Better to tell the canteen uncle to give the extra slice free to the young ones, and charge the big boys who waste.
Arre bhai, exactly what I keep telling my colleagues—these 'efficiency' rules look smart on paper but they never account for the little ones whose tiffins are light. I've seen my own fifth-graders share their last biscuit; punishing hunger with pricing is just inequality dressed up as discipline.
Ah, but beta, the problem isn't the rule itself—charging for extra is fair, it makes the waste-wallahs happy—it's that the *implementing* is blind. Our job as teachers is to see those KG kannu and quietly slip them that extra slice from our own plate, no? The system isn't the villain; the lack of a little common-sense compassion in how we apply it is.
