Stupid Educator/Fed News

From Fox News: Smile, Texas schoolchildren. You're on calorie camera.
That's the idea behind a $2 million project being unveiled Wednesday in the lunchroom of a San Antonio elementary school, where high-tech cameras installed in the cafeteria will begin photographing what foods children pile onto their trays — and later capture what they don't finish eating.
Digital imaging analysis of the snapshots will then calculate how many calories each student scarfed down. Local health officials said the program, funded by a U.S. Department of Agriculture grant, is the first of its kind in a U.S. school, and will be so precise that the technology can identify a half-eaten pear left on a lunch tray.
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/05/11/texas-schools-pictures-worth-1000-calories/
Here's a hint to these morons at the school district and USDA: Ask the school custodian about how much food is wasted at breakfast and lunch.
Because of my as a teacher, working with severely disabled kids, I have to go to the cafeteria with my kids and the waste of food is astounding.
At breakfast, the most wasted items is the milk, juice and fruits. Our milk comes in 8 ounce half pints and every morning and after lunch, we throw away gallon upon gallons of milk. We have 6 ounce cartons of juice and the kids again throw away gallons of juice every morning. Of course, part of the problem is that often the juice is often ice so it is not drinkable.
Another waste of food item are fruits. Every day at breakfast at least 3 dozens of oranges or apples are thrown away or used for batting practice in the cafeteria.
At lunch, salads are thrown away and most of the main entrees. More gallons of milk is thrown away.
If you saved all the food that had not been opened, you keep a homeless shelter going for a day at a time. Then if you include all of the CCSD schools, it could almost feed most of the hungry in Las Vegas.
So, if the Feds want to get some accurate information, just contact a school custodian. Now pay me $2 million.