Abstract:
Purposes: The purpose of this research were to study the problems of the school lunch program in Elementary Schools, Bangkok Metropolis Elementary School headmasters on the managing of school lunch program. Procedure: The instrument used in collecting data were two sets of questionnaires. One set of those questionnaires was sent to the 62 headmasters of the school which school lunch program operated. The other set of questionnaires was sent to 36 headmasters of the school without school lunch program. These 98 headmasters of 98 Bangkok Metropolis Elementary Schools out of 24 areas were sample. The data collected was analyzed by using percentage, mean; and standard deviation, and then summarization, proposal were done afterward. Results: The results of this research were as follow (1) The majority of Bangkok Metropolis Elementary Schools had large quantity of pupils from low economic, background. (2) Bangkok Metropolis Elementary Schools were not ready to offer school lunch program. The finding problems were lacking of personal, appliance, budget and building. There were only 46.94 percents of school that had own canteen. The school headmasters who did not agree with the school lunch program was 13.27 percents. They wanted more budget and personnel from the Bureau of Education in offering school lunch program.