Posted on 03/06/2014 10:20:21 AM PST by Hojczyk
The “morale” for cafeteria workers has also suffered under the new standards.
“Staff in one SFA noted that the increased amount of time and effort to prepare fruits and vegetables also led to morale issues when staff saw students throw the fruits and vegetables in the trash,” the GAO said.
Lunchroom costs are also going up due to the need for “new spoons and ladles to match the new portion size requirements.” Thirty-one percent of SFAs nationwide said they needed additional kitchen equipment to comply with the new lunch requirements last school year.
The law mandated that schools increase the price of school lunches, causing students to stop buying “because they felt they were being asked to pay more for less food.” Kids who pay full price for meals declined by 10 percent last school year, the lowest rate in over a decade.
Challenges with the school lunch program, which cost $11.6 billion in 2012, are expected to continue, as further regulations go into effect. The “first of three” sodium limits starts in 2014-2015, though “many of the foods available from manufacturers do not yet comply with these limits.”
School officials noted, “it will be very difficult” to serve food that is “palatable to students” under the sodium standards.
As for the other requirements, the GAO said students would get used to it.
“Although school lunch participation has declined, it is likely that participation will improve over time as students adjust to the lunch changes,” they said.
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Why would they need new anything? Does not compute.
Already happening on some schools. They are making kids pay for and eat the government meal if they find the student’s packed lunch is deficient by their standards.
LOL! that’s the line I will give to the grandkids:)
Parents in school districts should make the call on what’s served and what’s not served. Anyone sick of control freak democrats putting their noses in everything? Most of them don’t even have kids...
That big fat wookie is torturing millions of kids because she is so embarassed being a big fat wookie.
I tried to imagine a typical American 3rd-grader being served a lunch like that. I also wondered what kind of wine they served.
A fine dry white Bordeaux would go best with steamed mussels.
Such arrogance.
If I were still in school, I could see organizing a puke-in.
I would encourage protestors to aim for the trash monitors.
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