Upmarket fare
'Offering expensive food in school canteens will only encourage extravagance.' MR SNG AH BENG: 'I refer to the report, 'School canteens go upmarket' (Sept 22). A school is a place where students learn, among other things, about financial prudence and dining sensibly. Offering expensive food in school canteens will only encourage extravagance. Imagine also a situation when a student returns home telling his parents that he doesn't want to patronise the canteen anymore because his better-off classmates are having sushi and Thai pineapple rice with a Starbucks latte to go, while he can only afford tau sar pow (cheap Chinese bun) and water.'
'Offering expensive food in school canteens will only encourage extravagance.' MR SNG AH BENG: 'I refer to the report, 'School canteens go upmarket' (Sept 22). A school is a place where students learn, among other things, about financial prudence and dining sensibly. Offering expensive food in school canteens will only encourage extravagance. Imagine also a situation when a student returns home telling his parents that he doesn't want to patronise the canteen anymore because his better-off classmates are having sushi and Thai pineapple rice with a Starbucks latte to go, while he can only afford tau sar pow (cheap Chinese bun) and water.'
