More than 1 MILLION students stopped buying school lunches after Michelle Obama's overhaul

[malamute]

Originally Posted by quigboto

Then your problem is with the school, not Michelle Obama. Take it up with your school district.

Michelle like most other First Ladies has a national project -- I don't really see hers as any worse than what others before her had for projects. Childhood nutrition is a good enough project.

My kids actually knew what was good food and what was junk food. They used to come home from school griping loudly about some weird kid who brought a lunch bag filled with just candy, his mother actually filled a lunch sack with nothing but candy for him to eat for lunch. My kids would go on and on about how weird he was and it was from what he ate for lunch and how they weren't ever going to sit with him -- it made them so sick to see him eat one piece of candy after the other until it was gone -- sometimes I thought there was some envy in their complaining.

[Katarina Witt]

Originally Posted by malamute

Michelle like most other First Ladies has a national project -- I don't really see hers as any worse than what others before her had for projects. Childhood nutrition is a good enough project.

My kids actually knew what was good food and what was junk food. They used to come home from school griping loudly about some weird kid who brought a lunch bag filled with just candy, his mother actually filled a lunch sack with nothing but candy for him to eat for lunch. My kids would go on and on about how weird he was and it was from what he ate for lunch and how they weren't ever going to sit with him -- it made them so sick to see him eat one piece of candy after the other until it was gone -- sometimes I thought there was some envy in their complaining.

That really is a little hard to believe. What's that saying teachers have: If you don't believe everything your kid tells you about me, I won't believe everything s/he tells me about you? Seems like there's some applicability here.

[wildflower82]

Originally Posted by Katiana

That's another urban legend. PE is still a part of the curriculum in my district, from K-12.

I didn't say it wasn't a "little" part of school curriculum. Hardly enough P.E. to combat overweight issues and fit children. When I attend school back in the "old days" 70's, fat kids were not a norm.