Posted on 02/21/2015 8:51:59 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
St. Charles District 303 is considering opting its high schools out of the National School Lunch Program to give its students more flexible and better-tasting food options. However, the district would have to forfeit about $500,000 in federal support to do so.
Students haven't just vocally grumbled about the new options available under the federal program, but have voted against the program with their dollars, too.
A la carte purchases have dropped steadily in the last year. District officials project a 41 percent decline in a la carte items sold by the end of the 2014-15 school year compared to the 2013-14 school year.
"It's really the cut of fat and salt. Kids really liked macaroni and cheese, and well, you don't see macaroni and cheese anymore," Superintendent Don Schlomannsaid. "In the past, a favorite lunch has been turkey with mashed potatoes and gravy, but they can't have that anymore with the salt count."
Federal regulations, which went into effect in July, also have limited students' abilities to hold bake sales, food-based fundraisers and sell snacks at school stores, officials said. Federal guidelines have affected the culinary program at St. Charles East High School as well, as stricter standards make meal planning challenging.
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Who pays the piper calls the tune. Is there need for more evidence that Big Gov is tyrannical?
They collect your money and then enslave you on the cheap.
Why do schools have to have lunch at all?
Back in my day, the school didn’t even have a cafeteria. We all had to bring lunch from home.
If they are pushing slop that nobody wants to eat, why participate in the lunch program?
And how the heck do we arrive at a point at which Michelle and bureaucrats in Washington DC are telling our kids what they have to eat in the first place? I have trouble getting my arms around that entire concept.
With a 41% drop in ala carte sales across the district, it doesn’t make sense to make yourselves beholden to $500,000 worth of carrot and stick.
You’re just beating yourselves up anymore.
Not to mention the amount of food waste you are creating and the impairment to meal planning and volume.
What will you do?
$500,000 from the FED.
District serves about 13,590 students.
That would average about $36.79 per year per student.
Or about a $4.09 per month (based on a 9-month period).
Or about $0.95 per week.
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Seems worth the sacrifice to get Michelle O out of their kitchens.
When I went to grade school i was sent with a brown paper bag of food
When I got to high school and was working I rarely ate cafeteria food.
To this day I hate:
Lasagna(ricotto cheese is disgusting)
Meat loaf (I don’t eat over cooked bricks)
Sloppy Joes
Tuna Casserole
Industrial Fries
I usually skipped lunch or ate what I brought.
About the only thing I remember from the cafeteria was hot chocolate or orange juice before chorus.
Big Government is the solution according to Obama! NOT!
The average cost of a school lunch is in the $2.00 to $2.50 range.
From the pix of the M-Obama Meals, they would be hard pressed to justify charging $2.00. Most of them look like they have maybe 25¢ to 50¢ of actual bulk food. Where is that extra money going?
Back in the 60’s a weeks lunch ticket was only $1.50., or, 35 cents per day. If you didn’t like what was on the menu, you brought it from home. Nobody went hungry.
So, today 95-cents per day is not unreasonable, IF the food is decent.
I say dump the Feds and feed the kids.
I got a dollar for lunch (early 80’s). That bought either: A. the school cafeteria lunch or, B. a large coke classic big gulp and 9 “rold gold” pretzel rods. I usually was playing a sport or involved with chorus or school productions. When I got home at 7:30 PM I was absoutely ravenous. But i did not go hungry at lunch. Nobody did. If you couldn’t pay for the cafeteria lunch you could apply to have it paid for by the school. It was starchy and sugary, to be sure. But what parents forget is that at that age kids are so active that they would burn right thru those carbs with no ill effects. Like Obamacare, the current school lunch is not about being in service to the community, it’s about control.
CC
Every school where I ate in the school cafeterias 1952-1964, had great lunches, except ONE! Aztec NM had the absolute worst lunches anywhere, and I’ve had them from rural Kansas, Denver, various schools in NM, Arkansas, Tennessee.
All were good except Aztec! In other places, we lived so close to schools we came home for lunch.
Therein lies the solution, put schools back in the neighborhoods. Consolidated schools are about as useful as federalized governments, and serve the same purpose. Total Control.
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