Nebraska School Served Students Chili With Kangaroo Meat

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The superintendent of a Nebraska school district is apologizing after students at a middle/high school were served beef chili that also contained kangaroo meat. Mike Williams, superintendent of the Potter-Dix Public Schools, sent a letter home to parents explaining that the school's head cook, Kevin Frei, decided to use the meat because it is leaner and healthier than beef. 

While kangaroo meat is healthy and would have likely passed USDA inspections, some students reportedly became ill after eating the chili. 

“I apologize for the anxiety and any harm that this has caused individual students and/or families,” he wrote. 

Williams promised that the school will never serve exotic foods again. 

“If a family wants to eat exotic foods, they can do so on their own time – not at school,” Williams said. “If we were to have food or ingredients that are out of the ordinary, they should be listed on the menu so that the students and families are aware of what they would be being served. We will no way be serving food of this nature again. Period.”

The school district did not say whether Frei was still employed by the school or if he faced any disciplinary action for using kangaroo meat without informing the students. 

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