Posted on 05/21/2014 6:28:59 AM PDT by Mozilla
Don’t like your school’s food menu? Does it waste way too much money in discarded food? The kids complaining a lot about the lousy flavor or miniscule servings? Well, the House of Representatives is about to vote this week on a new bill that will provide school systems with a possible way out of Michelle’s mandatory nutrition standards.
The Congressmen and -women have been listening to schools, teachers, students and parents and have authored legislation that, with proper qualification and documentation, will allow each school system to regain control of their food programs.
If a system can show they sustained at least six consecutive months of net financial loss within the lunch program that was mandated by an unqualified wife who has no legal authority to ‘mandate’ anything, they can submit that documentation and be granted a regulatory waiver.
Supporting the move, School Nutrition Association’s president Leah Schmidt issued comments in a statement that Michelle’s program leaves
“no room for schools to make the decisions they feel work best for the students in their care. [They] need more flexibility to plan menus that increase student consumption of healthy choices while limiting waste.”
In opposition of the escape clause, Center for Science in the Public Interest member Margo Wooten states:
“[I]t’s a shame that the House Republicans are taking a step backward and allowing schools to serve more unhealthy food to children,”
…believing that school administrator patience is all it will take for the program to, after two years, straighten itself out and smooth financial concerns.
“[A]dministrators just need to be patient and will ultimately come to love the new regulations.”
“”Michelle’s mandatory nutrition standards.””
How the heck did this get to be mandatory?? Was a law passed regarding it and if not, why does Congress have to step in to correct it? Why can’t the schools just drop it?
The Republicans are completely missing it...again. The school lunch program is what gives power to DC in the first place. Even if it’s better administered by Republicans, the program give DC power where it should have none, and that power can be quickly turned back against the states should DC change its mind.
Even if the Republicans mean well (and they’re not doing anything to devolve power back to the states), the bill is not going to get through Harry Reid and Obama.
I have a better idea, “Bring Your Own Damn Lunch.” It’s a school, not a restaurant.
Of course she knows better.
Just like a few interns working for democRat politicians over the past couple of decades know enough to re-write the entire medical system in America.
Same way COMMON CORE got put in place in the schools. Under the radar.
Grand son takes his lunch. 6th grade.
How Orwellian!
Of course, this whole school lunch drama has an Orwellian ring to it.
And where did Michelle get the authority to mandate anything, let alone what our kids eat?
CA....
Remind me again what office Michelle was elected to.
Nothing in the Constitution can possibly authorize this!
William Flax
Once again, who in the hell elected her? Seh is nothing but a communist assclown trying to tell you and your children what and how to eat. While she and her kids go running around the world eating what ever they want on our dime.
Bill Kicks Michelle’s program into trash can lobster dame kicks dog.
It was Obama’s FDA who make it mandatory in all schools. And nobody wanted it. It’s Fascism to force things on others and tell people what to do and think and eat.
I was hoping they would pass a bill mandating that WH luncheons and the Congress cafeteria use the same food and portion standards as school lunches
I read that some schools were thinking of checking the lunch bags to see if they met standards. But that is more fascism.
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