Posted on 09/23/2012 4:51:11 AM PDT by Kaslin
In Wisconsin, high school athletes are complaining about not getting enough to eat each day, due to the skimpy new school lunch menu mandated by the United States Department of Agriculture and First Lady Michelle Obama.
The story we published earlier this week on that subject is unfortunately not unique. Students across the country are complaining about the new school lunch regulations.
Perhaps the real motive is to starve students into slimming down. Just ask students in Pierre, South Dakota who, too, are in an all-out revolt.
"I know a lot of my friends who are just drinking a jug of milk for their lunch. And they are not getting a proper meal," middle school student Samantha Gortmaker told Keloland.com.
Despite the fact that the new regulations have increased the cost of a lunch 20 to 25 cents per plate, it’s not pleasing students.
Some are throwing away their vegetables while others are adapting to the rules by becoming industrious. In New Bedford, Massachusetts, students have created a black market - for chocolate syrup. The kiddie capitalists are smuggling in bottles of it and selling it by the squeeze, according to SouthCoastToday.com.
Nancy Carvalho, director of food services for New Bedford Public Schools, was quoted as saying that hummus and black bean salads have been tough sells in elementary cafeterias. That means even smaller children are going through the day fighting hunger pains, which can never be considered a good thing.
One government official tried to put the blame on the students.
"One thing I think we need to keep in mind as kids say they're still hungry is that many children aren't used to eating fruits and vegetables at home, much less at school. So it's a change in what they are eating. If they are still hungry, it's that they are not eating all the food that's being offered," USDA Deputy Undersecretary Janey Thornton was quoted as saying.
Ms. Thornton just put her finger on the problem. The government is trying to impose a new diet that children are not accustomed to. It’s not reasonable to expect them to either eat what the government deems healthy or go hungry.
Many will opt to go hungry, and that’s the government’s fault.
I agree with your sarcastic comment. Non nutritious junk food served in schools has been a problem. If the kids are hungry then they need to bring their own lunch to school. Very simple solution.
Never discuss sex, politics or religion.
Read today's newspaper.
It is for the transfer of information I frequent FR.
There is SO much here, but as in all infopaks ... if we don't have complete data .. we come to wrong conclusions.
Our ages make things different ... not wrong ... just different.
What the heck is humus? I thought that was something you add to garden soil.
My kiddos go to private school that does not provide food service, so they all pack. They get a meat and cheese sandwich, sliced veggies with dip (baby carrots, cherry tomatoes, cucumbers) a salty snack, dessert and a bottled water. Their father feeds them a healthy breakfast before school. When I pink them up in the afternoon they are starving. The kids skipping the gross lunch must really be hungry.
I am a special education para-educator (in other words, a teachers aide) in a Maryland public school. School breakfast is $1.30 and school lunches are $2.45 for middle and high schools ($1.20 and $2.25 for breakfast and lunch in elementary schools) Bringing in packed lunches from home is still an option here in our schools as I pack my sons (and my own) lunch.
my niece, with 2 grade schoolers, has reported numerous kids pooping their pants ... unable to cope with the fiber in whole grain bread
So where do you draw the line where the federal monster has to stop at ?
I assume these children have at least one parent...who are responsible for their well being?
Personally, I think the federal government needs to receive your weekly dinner plans to make sure you are not eating too many bon bons...if you don't you will need to pay a tax surcharge...
“What the heck is humus? I thought that was something you add to garden soil.”
I eat it occasionally, as a chip dip. Kind of thick for that though.
I love homeschooling my kids. We eat lots of beef, chicken, pork, and still have stuff around like PBJ sandwiches, fruits and veggies, and sweets if we want ‘em. We have heavy whipping cream as a staple, buy butter by the case, high fat content stews, and quality salts, basically everything the extremists say is unhealthy, and I have not one single fat kid. Everyone is healthy.
NO ONE tells my kids what they can or cannot have but my wife or myself. How much is this worth to me? 75% of my property tax that goes to the public schools that I won’t ever see a dime’s worth of benefit from, and having to buy my own curriculum every year. It’s worth every penny of that.
In addition, I don’t have “gay pride” crap, demo-crap, and other crap shoved down my kids’ throats every day, and I don’t have to deprogram them when they get home.
One of my co-workers is the President of the school board in his district, and he’s been talking about their lax attitude about getting switched over to the Moochelle food program. We have some interesting conversations at work!
The kids here have always had their blackmarket candy sales and some teachers do the same. One even has pop tarts with the sales “supposedly” going to the end of the year party but the party never happens. Pop tart sales can be over $50 a day.
Back in my day, some schools had fantastic lunches where others had garbage. The best was a little podunk school where the lunch ladies were the kids’ moms who knew how to put out a country table spread. Real pieces of chicken. Homemade yeast rolls with local honey to dunk them in. Big homemade peanut butter cookies made from government surplus pb and no one died from them.
Back in the day, the kid with the peanut allergy would be eating his lunch in the broom closet.
I can’t remember one kid dying of peanut butter allergy in all those years. I would estimate that 2 out of every 3 kids brought peanut butter in their lunches.
I also remember that the cafeteria plate lunch meal often had peanut butter cookies as the dessert.
“The best was a little podunk school where the lunch ladies were the kids’ moms who knew how to put out a country table spread. Real pieces of chicken. Homemade yeast rolls with local honey to dunk them in. Big homemade peanut butter cookies made from government surplus pb and no one died from them.”
My school was very similar to this. I thus never got the jokes after high school about bad school lunches!
“what the heck is humus...?
Technically it is hummus. It’s actually a paste made from chick peas. Children do not like it!! (as a rule) Adults can develop a taste for it and it tastes good with pita bread. I actually like it, my 14 year old - No Way!!
Get used to it kids, It’s what they, the democrats, are going to serve in the concentration camps. You’ll be skin and bone in no time.
“We know there are several new federal rules coming out on October 1, 2012 and the way the statute is written now, district K-8 grades are required to comply 100 percent with whatever the feds mandate. They have no recourse or options”.
“We are giving local control back and eliminating mandates at the same time. This is why the bill was supported by the Arizona School Boards Association. No one will be going off of the National School Lunch Program unless the new federal rules cause them to lose their shirt financially and they opt for a different way to feed children.”
There is an easy way around this problem that is already being offered in some districts in Arizona.
The Federal School Lunch Program is very popular, but the feds decided that schools had to follow increasingly large numbers of unrelated rules, or they would take away their SLP. Blackmail, pure and simple. However, over time, these now hundreds of federal demands have actually reached the point were they are about *equal or greater* in price to the money given to the schools.
This means that in many school districts, if they quit the SLP, and provided food for the students themselves, they would *save* money. And only state law stands in the way.
So what Arizona did was give school districts the choice. If they wanted the SLP, and to obey hundreds of rules, they could continue to do so. But if they were willing to feed students themselves, they could kiss off the SLP and hundreds of federal regulations all at once.
So your son, and kids like him, are somehow supposed to make do with the same number of calories as befits, say, a First Lady with a barn-sized rear end. It’s insanity.
LOL!
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.