Posted on 07/23/2014 6:48:30 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
The updated standards released by the United States Department of Agriculture, which most schools put in effect over the 2012-13 school year, meant larger, faster changes to lunches nearly across the board.
With the changes came news media reports of student complaints and food waste. A USA Today article in September 2012 described protests and boycotts from Kansas to Massachusetts.
Those objections to the phase-in of the new standards are supported by the findings of two recent studies. Researchers asked school administrators and food-service providers whether students complained “at first” about the new lunches. Many did (56 percent of elementary school administrators responding said students voiced objections to the changed menus in the fall of 2012, and according to the adults responding, some 44 percent of middle school students and 53 percent of high school students did the same). What is more surprising is that those same adults (administrators from more than a thousand schools nationwide) say that by the spring of 2013, the complaints had ebbed away. Most school administrators said that few students were complaining after just a few months of the changed lunches, and that most students (to at least some extent) seemed to like the new lunches.
(Excerpt) Read more at parenting.blogs.nytimes.com ...
No longer actively complaining every day. But I betcha they aren’t eating them either.
My grandson has been bringing his own lunch. And these kids learn to barter with their lunches. It’s not for profit...so I don’t see a problem...simple bartering.
NYT?
Remember, they believe in Obama, glow-bull warming, and Common Core.
‘Nuff said.
Move along, move along.
Roach coaches across the street?
“Behave, animals!”
That’s how I read that headline about childhood manipulation via food withholding.
Moochelle and her ilk seem to be unable to understand that most little kids HATE vegetables. If you force them to eat them, they will never like them.
I remember my mom worrying about my sister, all she seemed to eat was hot dogs and peanut butter and jelly. She's still alive and eats most things now.
They are going to give an entire generation of kids various eating disorders.
People will adjust to walking on nails and carrying 80 lb weights on their shoulders.
My children won’t eat the spaghetti because the noodles are nasty. I have tried using whole wheat noodles at home to no avail. I get the same reaction as the school. I throw away the nasty noodles, too. Even hubby hates whole wheat noodles. That is saying something.
When I was in school, I usually bought lunch. I would drink my milk. And I would eat the dessert which was a cookie, or a piece of dried out cake, or jello with fruit inside (jello would be hard on top). Oh. If they served pizza, I would eat that. I loved the pizzas and would buy them in bulk for my children if I could find them today. Lol. The rest of those nasty lunches went into the trash day after day. I had a friend who would share her fruit and Doritos with me. I occasionally would make my own lunch, but I usually threw away my sandwiches. (I would take a ham sandwich w mayo. I didn’t realize it at the time, but that mayo was nasty. I do not buy the same brand my mother bought and can stomach the stuff a little better now.)
Anywho, I have gone to lunch at school quite a bit this last year. The children regularly say the food is nasty. Hungry, growing boys will eat the food. Medicated growing boys won’t. They just sit there and wish they were unmedicated and wish they felt like eating.
Think "Triumph of ideology over reality".
I’m thinking I’d hate to be at a school with a bunch of hungry and crabby little kids. That could be dangerous!
These "perceived reactions" were from 557 responses to a mailback survey sent to 1051 public school administrators and food service staff. (There are about 100,000 public schools in the US.) And the perceptions were based on the public school administrators and food service staff scoring on a Likert-type scale (1=strongly disagree through 4=strongly agree) the following statements:
"Students generally seem to like the new school lunch."
"At first, students complained about the new lunches."
"Few students complain about the new lunches."
"Most students don’t seem concerned about the changes in the school lunches."
Oh, and a $100 incentive was offered for those who did respond.
The value of a fifth-column rag reporting such "suggested" conclusions from this kind of incentivized survey of a limited number of people with obvious biases is left as an exercise for the sentient reader.
...”adjusting” by throwing them in the garbage can.
Adjusting is not the same as accepting.
Believe nothing that you hear or read and only half of what you see.
The ‘pizza’ at my HS was absolute garbage. Pizza Friday was popular, but I never ate it. It was a doughy concoction with something approximating tomato paste smeared over it. I can’t even guess what they were using for ‘cheese’. I do know that there was darned little of it.
OTOH, there were a lot of other things on the menu that were deemed less edible, so in a way it makes sense.
When I was in college, I would go home for the summer and work as a camp counselor. Most of the children brought their lunches. A few would order from a menu of frozen foods that we would microwave. One of those items looked and smelled like the pizzas we had at school. They were not very appetizing looking when microwaved! And I am not sure if the mozzarella was really cheese. Lol Those pizzas were the most popular item on the menu. The other options were microwaved hamburgers or cheeseburgers, corn dogs, and something else. They were all nasty. Ugh.
As the old saying goes “If you are hungry enough you will eat anything”. People have eaten dirt out of desperation and drank sea water on when on a life raft. Neither helped.
Hunger will compell you to eat just about anything.
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