Posted on 07/03/2014 2:22:30 PM PDT by smoothsailing
July 3, 2014
MUSKEGO, Wis. – There’s growing heartburn over federal school lunch regulations and now school board members are lashing out at First Lady Michelle Obama, the champion of the program overhaul.
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports:
“We believe that proper food nutrition and meal portion guidelines are best decided at a local level,” said Rick Petfalski, School Board president for the Muskego-Norway School District.
Opting out of the program means Muskego-Norway will no longer receive federal money for its meals, but it also means the district is free to serve whatever it wants.
Already losing money because fewer kids were buying the meals, the district will now have to cover the cost of free and reduced lunches on its own. It will do this partly by spending less on foods that students don’t eat and — they believe — increasing the number of kids buying lunches by providing tastier meals.
Under the school lunch program regulations, Petfalski said, the district’s food service was projected to be headed toward a $54,000 deficit. By opting out — and presumably selling more food — he expects about a $7,100 surplus.
“By leaving the program we will not be required to follow these onerous guidelines, pushed by and large by Michelle Obama, who last I checked has been elected by no one,” Petfalski said. (emphasis added)
The great irony is that Petfalski’s district will actually net more money by turning down the federal reimbursements.
Meanwhile, Waterford Graded superintendent Christopher Joch told the paper, “There was a lot of waste.”
He added, “The food ended up in the garbage instead of the kids’ mouths.”
The chorus of complaints is only likely to increase as the feds up their regulations by cutting sugary and fatty snacks, effective July 1.
At least one district – the Edmonds School District in Washington – has banned cupcakes for birthday celebrations.
has banned cupcakes for birthday celebrations.
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MO and her husband’s government hate children
well exce3pt for illegal alien children...
She Be The Empress
Nor was the Kenyan POTUS elected to tell foreign countries they can storm the border without any fear of retribution, but that’s what he’s doing anyway.
She am?
Decided at the local level? That concept died a long time ago.
I bet this also is not turning down the fed dollars.
Toothless tiger!
Even if FLOTUS had been elected, it remains that the states have never delegated to the feds, expressly via the Constituiton, the specific power dictate any aspect of intrastate school policy.
BLASPHEMY!!!!!
SCOTOPHOBE!!!!
(SARCASM!!)
Alright, I just read the article. Scratch my last post.
So the Feds take mony from the States then turn around and hold the States hostage to get some of it back??
Can not put a price on OUR children.. Do not allow the Government o buy them.......
These school boards need to sue Michelle Obama on the grounds that she lacks that constitutional power to impose dietary restrictions upon the nation’s public schools.
Maybe she thought by banning them she could get them all...
Good for the Muskego-Norway School Board, hopefully other districts will follow.
Mookie should take up cooking duties at the WH and see if her own family will eat her diet delights, I’d bet they wouldn’t.
Communist always ‘mess-up’ the food.
HOW DARE YOU ATTACK MY UNELECTED ROYAL AND CHUNKY THIGHS AND HINDASS! PEASANTS!!
EAT YOUR PEAS!
It’s all about asserting control over the most basic facets of the everyday lives of Americans to impose and enforce the “new normal” standards they make up.
If they control what you eat, they control about 50% of your life.
The message is get used to your new third world diet, your new third world wages and your new third world healthcare that your magnanimous and benevolent leaders wish to bestow upon you.
It is , after all, for your own good.
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