Yup, plural on schools. From Tennessee's ABC affiliate wbay.com
Michael Herrell is a concerned parent and Hawkins County commissioner. He received a picture on Thursday of pork roast from a cafeteria cook at Joseph Rogers Primary School, the only school in the county that didn’t serve the pork roast to students that had a date from 2009.
[Bold my emphasis] That's pretty bad. It gets a little worse:
Herrell says a cook at Cherokee High School also told him the meat was bad, but was told by the manager to cover it with gravy to give it a better taste.
The Hawkins School system is now beginning a full inventory of their food. Luckily for the students, according to the USDA, frozen meat is safe indefinitely, but lacks any and all taste or quality after too long. The Hawkins School system is vowing to bring their standards up the moderate guidelines the USDA has set for the quality of meat—which is between 4 and 12 months.