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Elmbrook teens respond negatively high schools drop federal lunch program
brookfieldnow.com ^ | 6/23/15 | john rasche

Posted on 07/02/2015 6:06:08 PM PDT by UB355

In an effort to bring teenagers back to the cafeteria, Elmbrook School District high schools are dropping out of the federal school lunch program.

The district has seen a slow decline in lunch participation, by about four percent overall, since the start of the Healthy Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010, said Cheryl Peil, Elmbrook's director of food services.

The Healthy Hunger-Free Kids Act is a federal bill that provides funding for multiple food programs intended to improve child nutrition.

Districts who opt for the funding are required to abide by new, "common-sense standards for fat, saturated fat, sugar, and sodium, while promoting products that have whole grains, low fat dairy, fruits, vegetables or protein foods as their main ingredients," the United States Department of Agriculture states on its website.

But many Elmbrook high school students were not fond of the food offerings established under the requirements, Peil said. Some students simply just stopped eating the food they didn't want and threw it away

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; US: Wisconsin
KEYWORDS: 2016election; election2016; micheleobama; schoollunch; scottwalker; wisconsin

1 posted on 07/02/2015 6:06:08 PM PDT by UB355
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To: UB355

Story from Wisconsin


2 posted on 07/02/2015 6:07:13 PM PDT by UB355 (Slower traffic keep right)
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To: UB355

Is that the name for Michelle-chow?


3 posted on 07/02/2015 6:07:43 PM PDT by Gamecock (Why do bad things happen to good people? That only happened once, and He volunteered. R.C. Sproul)
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Good for them.


4 posted on 07/02/2015 6:24:55 PM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear (I'm fed up.)
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To: UB355

Federal nutrition. There’s an oxymoron for you.


5 posted on 07/02/2015 6:27:20 PM PDT by SkyDancer ( "Nobody Said I Was Perfect But Yet Here I Am")
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Common-sense is the term for I order you to eat/not eat and your stupid (you have no common sense) if you raise a conflict with my authority.


6 posted on 07/02/2015 6:36:23 PM PDT by USCG SimTech (Honored to serve since '71)
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To: UB355

Healthy Hunger Free Kids Act....

Are they sure this isn’t a program to feed goats?


7 posted on 07/02/2015 6:37:32 PM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: UB355

Who want’s to eat food mandated by a tranny?


8 posted on 07/02/2015 6:43:49 PM PDT by rawcatslyentist (Genesis 1:29 And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed,)
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School districts would save millions ... immediately ... per year .... if they closed the cafeteria’s and told everyone to brown bag it.


9 posted on 07/02/2015 6:57:35 PM PDT by knarf (I say things that are true .... I have no proof ... but they're true)
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Wonder how much Michelle’s brilliant idea has cost schools in millions of dollars worth of food thrown in the trash since 2010?


10 posted on 07/02/2015 7:17:36 PM PDT by TomGuy
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If the individual School Districts don’t sign up for Federal money, they also don’t have to comply with Federal contracting requirements....which make the “contracted products/services” twice as expensive,at a minimum, and drops the quality by at least 50%.

And just in case you are really curious about “how things work”, no, the Feds won’t allow established local food distributors to even bid on those contracts.

Because ...diversity, or something(graft/corruption/nepotism)!


11 posted on 07/02/2015 7:25:22 PM PDT by sarasmom
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I applaud this school for giving students what they want to eat. Article says students would rather pay more to eat what they like, and I would, too.


12 posted on 07/02/2015 7:51:49 PM PDT by Joyell
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13 posted on 07/02/2015 9:22:13 PM PDT by EinNYC
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To: UB355; onyx; Hunton Peck; Diana in Wisconsin; P from Sheb; Shady; DonkeyBonker; Wisconsinlady; ...

Elmbrook High drops out of Federal School Lunch program; foregoes subsidies.

Well, I don’t think that anyone in Elmbrook needs lunch subsidies.

FReep Mail me if you want on, or off, this wisconsin interest ping list.


14 posted on 07/02/2015 11:57:14 PM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
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Considering how food prices have risen for us, if they’ve gone up for the schools it’s unthinkable the cost. Maybe they should shut down, but imagine the caterwauling from the unions! I took lunch, too—except on Friday, gotta have them fish sandwiches for a quarter—just like McD’s!


15 posted on 07/03/2015 8:54:27 AM PDT by W. ( Animals are much stupider since Noah's Ark, because of inbreeding.--Oglaf)
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