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Some folks just don't seem to be getting the issue. The poor schools, with a high number of kids on free or reduced lunch plans have no choice as they need all the federal dollars they can get. However, kids in districts where the lunch rooms received minimal federal subsidies, but still made a decent profit from the much larger percentage of paying students, are suffering because the students are doing exactly what you are saying, bringing their lunch.
The weight problem with the US isn't just confined to K-12 individuals, it is an issue everywhere. If government food mandates are good enough for K-12, they are good enough for higher education as well. Just pass a law or regulation that says if an institute of higher education takes in students that received federal student loans, those institutions and their third party vendors must follow the nutritional guidelines that K-12 now have to follow. Keep the freshman fifteen from becoming the freshman fifty!
Any school that participates in the federal SLP receives federal dollars. Some wealthier school districts add extra funds to their lunch programs.
You are not allowed to bring your lunch, it is required that you eat the school supplied slop or nothing. Kids have been disciplined for bring in unauthorized food.
Try to keep up...
That's exactly what sucks the very most about this whole thing, for any area where this happens to be true. Talk about NAZI...
"The program has a dual purpose: meeting the nutrition and health needs of children and the economic needs of farmers. This dual purpose has its historical origins in the Depression and has been evident ever since. • The program has strong support from agriculture interests and powerful backing from members of Congress from farm states or districts."
All welfare seekers want to keep their loot, including big Ag.
The whole thing from farm to school is looting of taxpayers.
Probably because they don't exist! I'm sure if FOX or Breitbart got wind of such a school, they'd make sure it got publicity.
They do exist. Some schools in Chicago said that students were not allowed to bring lunches from home. (I'd have to look for a link but am getting ready to leave. It was bigish news when it happened.)
They do exist. Some schools in Chicago said that students were not allowed to bring lunches from home. (I'd have to look for a link but am getting ready to leave. It was bigish news when it happened.)
ONE school in Chicago.
And that was the Principal's decision. It had nothing to do with Chicago Schools policy, or Michelle O, or The Federal Gov't, or the rest of the world.
ONE school out of thousands. But you'd know that if you provided a link.
Michelle's guidelines are going to result in fatter kids. Here's why:
My 9-year-old nephew comes home from school every day completely ravished. The combination of the calorie limits and types of foods they have to give kids is going into the trash as much as it is the kids stomachs. Any kids that aren't well-supervised (often kids more likely to be poorer) are going to get home hungry and gorge on whatever is convenient around their home, most likely stuff like chips, pop tarts, cookies, hot dogs, etc.
So rather than feeding our kids reasonable, satiating foods at school, we're sending them home hungry where they're going to fill up on whatever their parents buy.
Most of those kids are gorging anyway given the obesity levels.
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