'Control' is the key word here. From the article:
"The school food is very healthy," he said, "and when they bring the food from home, there is no control over the food."
Well, this issue is about much more than the food that kids eat. I raised two children, quite successfully. I learned early on that the more you try to control what a child does, the more they sneak around to do things that they themselves control - and that leads to very negative results. All that too much control does is breed anarchy - their is a delicate balance that is often violated one way or the other.
One has to loosen the strings of control on small items early on, and on large items later in life so that the child becomes confident in making his/her own decisions - and making the correct ones. Removing the child from the decision-making process steals from them the ability to make good decisions later in life. In that situation, they never mature unless and until they completely rebel and go out on their own.
There was a bloody revloution in the late 1700s that illustrated quite clearly the results of too much control imposed on the populace. There was another bloody encounter in the 1860s, less than 100 years later. It's been longer than that since such as that occurred, but it's looking like the time for another may be nearing.