This is funny.
Some districts balk at latest serving of school lunch rules
Some district officials are saying they’re all for healthy food, but they have to sell enough hot lunches to break even on their program — and that won’t work if the kids shun the food. They also are a little prickly about federal officials telling them what to do.
“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.
The solution to this problem will be obvious to those whose power now depends on the ‘success’ of the problem er, I mean program. Clearly the National School Lunch program needs its own Special Weapons and Tactics teams, and we’ll see how those petty school administrators feel after they’ve been administered a few prolonged tasings. Or Michelle can hang a few pour encourager les autres. Whichever works. Hey, it’s For the Children.
Sadly, these folks are not asking the right questions. “local” control won’t solve the real problems any better than they ever did. I started “school” in 1951 and graduated from high school in 1964. I seldom got a “hot lunch” from the school, in part because my family could not afford them, but mostly because they were always pretty bad, one way or another. All “school” prepared foods are little different than that served in most hospitals and prisons, and for much the same reasons.
The solution, of course, is individual liberty. Self ownership. The power to choose. Until folks get that one right, the crappy “school lunch” will continue, no matter who is dictating what’s in it.
A few years back the city I lived in partnered with some of the fast food outlets and put in mini-taco Bells and McDonalds in the cafeteria. I know! You are dying to reply how bad fast food is but in fact it’s just food and in most cases no worse then what the schools serve anyway.
But the real problem is the government lured the cities with money for “free” lunches and then followed with regulations and unfunded mandates and now it seems they are acting like tyrants. The cities/schools should simply walk away from the “free” money. I actually see no good reason for schools to provide free lunch. Most of the people who would qualify would also qualify for food stamps. This implies that mom (and/or dad) isn’t using the food stamps to feed the kids. Seems like fraud to me. I think every school should be required to check up on the families of anyone applying for a free lunch and make sure mom and dad aren’t using the food stamps to buy drugs and alcohol.
Interestingly the city where I live now just sent out a flyer and listed the schools where you could get free lunches during the summer. So I went by a couple of the schools at lunch time and all the parents had nice cars, certainly nicer then mine, and many of the parents were speaking Spanish. While I know that doesn’t guarantee they are illegal aliens I would be willing to bet even money that they are.
“I know! You are dying to reply how bad fast food is but in fact it’s just food and in most cases no worse then what the schools serve anyway.”
I recall someone like Landmark Legal pulling a FOIA request that yielded some interesting “facts” about the department of indoctrination’s food acquisition policies.
Seems there are grades of foods the FDA uses to say to producers what is legal for who to consume.
The nasty fact was the department of keep your kids stupid was being able to acquire chicken that was not deemed of suitable grade for animal consumption and calling it child chow.
So yeah, maybe it is worse than Taco Bell.
And, Joel, I think the federales have school swat teams, they just aren’t for use in regard to a kook on campus……. they look to be more for the terrorists who homeschool and presumably aren’t feeding their kids poison that the government says would be cruel to feed to a dog.
The Department of Reeducation doesn’t have, nor need, a SWAT because they have Office of Inspector General special agents who already do exactly the same thing.
And that S/W/A/T/ OIG dawn raid on the house where the separated wife didn’t live to execute a no-knock warrant regarding her student loan? That wasn’t a raid to collect on the debt (which itself was a strawman argument, since no one claimed that). “The OIG conducts criminal investigations of fraud, bribery, embezzlement, and other criminal activity involving the Department of Education” but they won’t tell you why their S/W/A/T/ OIG team conducted that d/a/w/n/ n/o/-/k/n/o/c/k/ r/a/i/d/ polite, professional, heavily armed and armored investigation because they sealed the warrant when the shit hit the publicity fan.
So when kids these days are in History class, I wonder what they’re being “taught” about those old repressive regimes that we learned about…
When I was going to school,in the 70s and 80s, the food was generally crap but I paid for my own. Most days I took a sandwich, some fruit and yogurt. Cheaper and better than school food. Parents aren’t going to feed their kids if the school will do it for them.
My school had these things they called “pizza pies,” revolting.
Indirectly food related. I don’t know if you have seen this but it is a series on chicken doctorin’. Don’t know how good it is but wth.
http://seasonedcitizenprepper.com/chicken-doctorin-part-5/
At mine it was canned pork-n-beans at least three days a week and vomit-inducing “combination sandwiches” (white bread, spread thinly with a pink and green paste made from bologna, sweet pickle relish, and Miracle Whip) at least two. The state brought in the frozen pizza you’re complaining about on trucks, and canned tuna by the case, and frozen hamburger patties, and it all walked out the back door five minutes later, to be served in a restaurant owned by the town mayor’s little brother. Same restaurant also got all the county’s government cheese when that program started.