The cafeteria incident in Changfeng Middle School seems to be a problem for students to eat on the surface, but there are a lot of tricks behind it. When something happened to the school, the local government immediately responded, delivering meals, supervising, and accompanying meals, a set of processes were arranged clearly, and parents and students were indeed satisfied for a while, and some people even said that the current food is better than before. It's an interesting phenomenon – as soon as the food improves, everyone seems to breathe a sigh of relief, as if the matter has been resolved. But don't forget, this is only temporary, and the problem is not solved at all.
The first question is in front of us: how long can the food delivery service of the central kitchen last every day? This outsourcing model, to put it bluntly, is an emergency measure. It's true that the food delivery company can ensure the quality and quantity of the food, but what about the canteen? The canteen is still the school after all, how can there be a reason to rely on external companies to "eat on behalf of others"? It's like a broken pot at home, you can order a takeout temporarily, can you order takeout every day in the future? If the canteen is to resume normal operations, the school must be determined to completely renovate.
The crux of the question is, who is responsible for the previous accident? When something happened, the parents of the students were blown up, and the attitude of the school was "a dead duck with a hard mouth" at the beginning, which is difficult not to make people wonder: whose interests are these managers protecting? Now that the government has intervened, there is no problem with the food for the time being, but how to deal with the leaders who ignore the health of students and have a cold attitude after the incident? Shouldn't they be held seriously accountable? The dereliction of duty of these school leaders is by no means something that can be covered up by changing a lunch box.
The third problem, which is probably the most tricky: the chain of interests in the school cafeteria. Many campus canteens hide an invisible gray industrial chain behind them, such as food procurement, supplier contracts, and even outsourcing contracts. In many places, canteens have long become a "cash cow" for some people, and whether the quality can be guaranteed depends on how big the mouth can be. The exposure of this incident is actually like tearing a corner of the fig leaf, is there a bigger problem behind it? If you can't cut this chain of benefit, even if the meal is good now, it may be more difficult to deal with the next problem.
To sum up, the cafeteria incident at Changfeng Middle School ostensibly is "how the students are eating", but in fact it involves the interests behind the campus. No matter how well the food problem is solved, it is only a symptom. To cure the root cause, we must rely on transparent management, cut off the benefit transmission chain, and thoroughly clean up the gray area of canteen operation, so that students can eat with confidence.
So in the end, I want to ask: how long can the government deliver food this time? Will schools really reinvent themselves and purge those with vested interests hiding behind them? What do you think about this?