School boards don’t need to ‘fight’ regulations. All they need do is stop taking their thirty pieces of silver from the FEDs.
What the schools are trying to do is to placate the students, the parents, and the Feds (even if they are balking at the ‘regulations’). If they didn’t take the damn money in the first place, the Feds wouldn’t be in the schools to start with.
Michelle Obama isn’t the ‘feds’.
These breakfasts, lunches, and healthy snacks are FREE to people in areas with poverty. It's absurd that the parents don't even have to use part of that child's food stamp allocation to pay for them. Even with that, complaining to the feds and the media isn't a solution for the kids.
Many if not most schools use pre-packaged food that's heated and served by cafeteria workers, served in fast food wrapping....there isn't much cooking going on. It's provided by a major food distributor. Thus, one option would be to make a healthy and delicious soup, stew, or sandwich (etc) from scratch.
I've been to some schools that offer excellent food (honest). They do it by working with the distributor to make healthy edible choices. For the fresh fruit....some offer rotted refuse, some offer high quality delicious fruit and veggie choices. It's all in how the school program is handled.
What's my point? Of course the feds shouldn't be involved in local food programs. But neither should those who don't like what they're getting whine to everyone else. They should bring their own food or work with the administration and cafeteria staff and demand they make healthy choices.