As someone who works in a French school cantine, I concur.

I might be wrong but I think this might be more of a failing of the US education system than an across the board decline world wide. Although I do think millenials but much more so Gen Z and Alpha are adversly affected by social media than the generations before by tv.

Well, he just lives in the wrong country. In the Netherlands or Belgium (for example) you can get large fries.

I think the question is how much money do I need to know what is going on?