Posted on 07/09/2013 9:57:29 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
First lady-backed school lunch regs cost school district $100,000
Posted By Caroline May On 12:25 PM 07/09/2013 In Education | No Comments
A New York school district is giving the boot to the National School Lunch Program (NLSP) and its new restrictive regulations mandating the number of calories and nutrients in each meal.
The Burnt Hills-Ballston Lake school district announced this month that after a school year struggling with the new guidelines under the Michelle Obama-backed Healthy and Hunger Free Kids Act, the school will not be participating in the program this coming school year.
“Students complained of being hungry with these lunches and the district lost money,” assistant superintendent Chris Abdoo said in a statement. “I’m confident we can do better on our own next year.”
According to the district, the new options, implemented by the Department of Agriculture, resulted in lower sales and a loss of about $100,000.
“Students felt they weren’t getting good value for their money,” food service manager Nicky Boehm said. “The high schoolers especially complained the portion sizes were too small, and many more students brought in lunch from home.”
The decision to leave the NSLP will result in the school district losing partial reimbursements for the cost of food served to students receiving reduced-price or free food.
With just 9 percent of the student population qualifying for subsidized lunches, compared to the New York state average of 43 percent, the district will still be offering free and reduced-price meals to those who need them — but the district will be increasing the cost of a complete meal by 25 cents, which the it says it would have had to do anyway.
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And the first lady is allowed to make rules and give orders through... how, exactly?
What’s the big dal? Just raise taxes. /sarc
what Chewbacca wants, Chewbacca gets
Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four definition of ‘power’: the ability to make others suffer.
But now? Not a peep, as it is detrimental to the First Wookie.
FLATUS, excuse me, FLOTUS, doesn’t issue the orders - She makes her wishes known and some bureaucrat doling out the federal dollars issues orders consistent with her wishes (and probably gets a nice promotion for doing so).
That school district used to be one of the best in the country. It has been a long time since I was there (in the 1960s), so I do not know about today.
This “healthier” lunch menu is never going to work - especially in the elementary level. If kids don’t like it, they won’t eat it. My mom couldn’t get me to each broccoli and spinach and the schools won’t get kids to eat this stuff either.
One positive aspect though, kids learn the entrepreneurial spirit of selling desired snacks to their friends with their own elementary “black market”. They also learn early American history of smuggling, like we did against the British, as they learn the fine art of smuggling food kids want.
/s
At my grandson’s school the kids are forbidden to share or trade food...allergies you know.
Bets are, they're eagerly awaiting of the return of Twinkies ...
One of the things that the school is evidently not teaching its students is the Constitution and its history, probably because the school's faculty don't know the Constitution and its history. After all, if the school knew that the states have never delegated to Congress, via the Constitution, the specific power to regulate, tax and spend for public school food, then the state should be complaining about the following.
The federal food program violates Justice John Marshall's official clarification that Congress cannot lay taxes in the name of state power issues, this public school food program being an example.
"Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States." --Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
So the federal funds that are being withheld from this school food program should never have been taken from taxpayers in the first place. In other words, the corrupt feds are using the threat of the loss of federal funds based on illegal federal taxes to get people to comply with federal regulations which the which the states have never given the feds the constitutional authority to make in the first place.
What a mess! :^(
The corrupt feds need low-information voters.
I had an idea awhile back that I thought would stop this foolishness & a LOT more. Basically,the idea is to tax only at the state & local level & what’s left can go to the feds. Many of the programs at federal level would go to the states instead of federal funds going through a lot of hands & finally dribbling back to the states. Should eliminate a lot of unnecessary programs at the federal level & save money. Feds would still be in charge of national defense & not a whole lot else. I know this would raise a lot of questions,but can anyone honestly say that it’s working well as it is set up now?
At least some districts are opting out.
Uncle Sam needs to get his Pimp Daddy ass out of our business.
The states would do well to stop being whores for DC.
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