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Schools Expelling Michelle O’s Austere, Expensive Lunch Program

July 11, 2013 by Ben Bullard

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Michelle Obama pushed hard to get the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act (HHFK) passed by Congress in 2010. And it did pass. Who wants kids to be hungry?
The Act authorized the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USAD) to revamp the nutritional criteria for public school lunches and expanded the free school lunch program. The USDA estimates it will cost $3.2 billion to completely implement the nutritional changes nationwide over a five-year span. The free lunch expansion increases the Federal government’s $11 billion annual allotment for lunch subsidies by more than $1 billion per year.
But as quickly as many public schools have begun adopting new standards that replace traditional menu offerings with things like “part of” a chicken patty on a little croissant and arugula pizza, they’ve often just as quickly abandoned the program.
Why? Because kids hate it, it’s too expensive for the schools, the lunches themselves cost more for paying students, and cafeterias are losing money as kids continue to resort to bringing lunch from home in order to stave off hunger and eat what they choose.
It was reported Tuesday that the Burnt Hills-Ballston Lake school district in New York dropped the program after losing $100,000 implementing the new Federal menu, but it’s only the most recent district to have left Obama’s attempted food fiat in the dust. Schools in Wisconsin, South Dakota, Massachusetts, Iowa, Kansas — pretty much everywhere, in other words — are either ditching the program or wrestling with angry students and parents in an effort to stay the course.
As with all nanny programs, the 850 calorie-maximum school lunch scheme is fraught with hypocrisy.
“The voluminous menu that’s good enough for the federal bureaucrats’ cafeteria should be good enough for our children’s school lunchroom,” said Senator Tim Huselkamp (R-Kan.), an ardent HHFK opponent, in April. “If USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack thinks the federal government should dictate what local governments put on their school lunchroom menus, why isn’t he leading by example? Secretary Vilsack should impose his ‘Nutrition Nanny’ standards on the USDA buildings’ cafeteria menus before the USDA seizes control of lunchroom menus in 100,000 school districts.”

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I dislike the a lot of the crap in it. But I personally also feel school luncher's should be healthier. If a parent wants to let their kids eat fatty food its their choice, if a kid wants to, its their choice with parental consent. But the school doesn't need to be feeding kids burgers, fries, hotdogs, pizza and other high fatty foods. Make a cheaper but semi more health menu. What ever happened to low fat milk, a peanut butter and jelly sandwich, and an apple....

if the kids don't want to eat it do the same thing many good parents who instill discipline do for their kids. Let them starve. The food is their if they want to eat it, if not its mom and dads issue.

You wouldn't believe how much food the schools throw out. When I worked there an aide would stand by a large trash can and just scrape the trays. The trash can would be full and many of the kids threw away their whole lunch. It was disgusting. Now we have to pay for breakfasts, lunches and snacks for the kids and on the weekends many of the kids are given a back pack full of food to eat on the weekends.

When I was a kid we didn't have hot lunches and had to bring our own, our parents fed us breakfast and snacks at home. We would have snacks at school only when it was someones birthday or we were celebrating a holiday. Now the kids can not bring snacks to share because heaven forbid there would be a crazy person who put something in them like peanuts, or not know how to prepare food safely. Personal responsibility for parents has been thrown out the window. My parents didn't have much money but because of gardening and budgeting we always ate well without free or reduced government lunches.

My own kids were only fed lunch at school and sometimes brought their own. The only time they were on free lunch was a few months in the 80s when my DH lost his job due to the economy. As soon as he found a job I sent in the forms with true information on it and my kids were off free lunch. Nowadays parents lie on the forms so they can get free lunch-I saw it all the time at the so called diverse school I worked at. Again it's disgusting! My kids were fed a healthy breakfast, snacks and all meals on the weekend even though we didn't make a lot of money. Gardening, coupons, grocery specials, etc kept out food costs down.

Oh I can't forget to mention the free lunch program for so called migrant children that was started a few years ago. These kids get automatic free lunches and breakfasts no matter what their parents income is. Many illegals are considered migrants because they do farm or agricultural work(meatpacking is considered agricultural work). The schools even have a bilingual(spanish and english) migrant recruiter who recruits families into it.

I can go on and on about the school lunch program but I have other things to do like working to make a living, calling and faxing.