I have to say that your question title was a bit misleading. I gather that the you're questioning the contents of school lunches, not the jan-ken part.
Long story short, if this is about several students as opposed to just your own kids, you should be discussing it with the parents of those students in issue instead of asking this forum. Have you talked about it at a "hogosha-kai" (parents' meetings at school)? You should be sharing this issue with the other parents, in front of the teacher.
Either way, as another poster mentioned, public school lunches are supposed to be based on recipes supervised by professional nutritionists. In other words, as long as kids are eating school lunches, they're not supposed to starve to death or suffer from malnutrition. In fact, eating too much could even lead to over-eating. Also, the lunches need to maintain a certain budget which is coming from everybody's taxes.
That said, I've had my fair share of observing school lunches (while raising a child years ago), and, like many other parents, don't necessarily feel that they all seem like balanced meals. Even on days that parents get to go to school to try their lunches, there would obviously be too much carb (I've once had a meal mainly containing, white sauce, potatoes and bread. I'm not sure I got enough protein and vitamins.
But then, one of our school principals once said, "Please don't rely solely on school lunches." I guess she was delivering a message implying that those lunches are pretty much flawed.
Let's get back to the topic. You said you talked to the teacher. Are you sure the teacher understood that it's about nutrition and calories, instead of fairness and satisfaction? If so, and if the teacher said they'll do something about it, then they should be.
I wonder what the teacher meant by "it'll be okay". You need to get specific answers on what they're going to do about it. For example, are the going to improve the contents of the meals? If so, this is going to take a great amount of time, since it involves not only our taxes but the big organization called the school lunch center. Or maybe, the school is going to allow kids to bring snacks. This may take time, too, since it's a public school, and therefore they would need to talk to the board of ed. Or maybe the teacher is thinking about having a good talk with the students in issue, on a spiritual level. Anyway, you should ask specific questions to the teacher/school in order to get specific answers.
But I have to say that I did raise a boy with an ordinary appetite and never really had that problem. Kids just took it for granted that school lunches suck (as they do in various other parts of the world), and they'd come home expecting snacks. Once they get to middle school, they'd cheat by discretely eating before lunch time. In senior high school, this becomes the norm: Students would use recess time to eat the lunch they brought from home, then go to the cafeteria at lunch time, and then go to the cafeteria again after school (or go over the fence to cheat and eat).
I'm sorry for writing too much, but what I wanted to say are just two simple things: (A) People have been complaining about school lunches ever since it was invented, but it doesn't improve overnight. (B) What did your son's teacher mean by "it'll be okay"?
I hope you find a good solution. Have a wonderful New Year's Eve.
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