Reading into the school breakfast flaws

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Writing in Hoy, leading anthropologist Tahira Vargas Garcia comments that the continued food poisoning cases affecting public school children who receive free breakfasts is evidence of the increased centralization that plagues the government educational system. "The Ministry has distanced itself from decentralization as a focus of the school system management and has converted it into a totally centralized system that does not have sufficient funding to provide quality education," she writes. She says the school breakfast program requires efficient decentralized management in which all structures are involved n school districts, regional boards and the department of Student Welfare with continued monitoring and control of its operation. She criticized the increase in the distribution of dairy and bread-cake and the decline in the distribution of cooked meals that did not cause any food poisoning cases. She recommended getting the communities to participate and provide cooked meals. She points out that the parents cannot supervise the programs because they do not have authority to tackle the anomalies and can only complain. She says that the parent associations have been weakened by the politicization as a result of the ruling party's influence.

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