LETTER: Crisps or crumble
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Your support makes all the difference.From Mr Graham Dane
Sir: The danger to children's health is even worse than you report ("School dinners can damage your health", 3 November). The "unhealthy" menu - battered fish, creamed potato, baked beans and apple crumble with custard - seems acceptable compared with an unhealthy choice in the school where I teach: a Mars bar, six bags of crisps and a can of fizzy drink.
We have abandoned children's health to balance the books. Parents would (or should) be outraged if they knew what their children ate.
Yours faithfully,
Graham Dane
Edinburgh
6 November
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