The Arizona legislature is proposing a major change to its public education system, that will probably not get much press nationwide, because on the surface it sounds unimportant.
The bill would let schools opt-out of the school lunch program. Doesn’t sound like much, does it?
That is, the FEDERAL school lunch program (NSLP).
The secret is that, for decades, the federal government has used the *threat* of cancelling the NSLP as an excuse to FORCE schools to adopt huge amounts of expensive federal mandates. Literally millions of dollars of unneeded administrative costs, and even more importantly, mandates that WASTE large amounts of time that students should use for learning.
So if even a few schools opt-out of the NSLP, they will not only save a fortune they can use for students and teachers, but their students could have the equivalent of *useful* weeks added to their school year for studies, instead of nonsense federal “studies, feelings surveys, and politically correct indoctrination”.
And in no way will this prevent the schools from feeding their students healthy, nutritious lunches that they want to eat, instead of Michelle Obama’s inedible crap that students throw in the waste bins; bringing food from home or eating junk food, or starving, which many poor kids will do instead of eating that crap.
So as you might imagine, LOTS of schools will vie for this opt-out, if they have a choice.
And once the federals find out, they will be *enraged*, and sue Arizona as hard as they can to *force* all its schools to have the NSLP, and all the other b.s. federal rules.
Because if more states adopt this idea, a LOT of the federal control and involvement in public schools goes right out the window. As such, it is a MAJOR threat to the federal government’s big government agenda.
Very interesting! I'm going to want to keep an eye on this.