Posted on 03/06/2016 5:59:37 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
Students at Penn-Trafford High School aren't buying that lunches prepared under federal guidelines that restrict calories, sodium and portions are their best option.
So they literally are not buying them.
"I would say, on average, we've lost about $20,000 a year each of the last five years," Penn-Trafford business manager Brett Lago said. "We are not in the food service industry to make money, but we don't want to lose it."
School lunch participation nationally dropped from 31.6 million students in 2012 to 30.4 million in 2014, according to the federal Department of Agriculture. Pennsylvania statistics show school lunch participation dropped by 86,950 students in the same two years, from 1,127,444 in 2012 to 1,040,494 in 2014.
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That stuff either looks like something a dog would squeeze out or a cat would hock up.
Mooch’s prison food mandate.
They ought to make that ‘person’ eat her own damned food for a month.
Students nationwide want the choices that the sullen, alleged Obama teenagers have at uber-exclusive, Leftist, and pricey Sidwell Friends *private* school. The menu for that institution has The Mooch’s awful concotions, but also alternative, normal choices. One exception is mostly fruit for desert; no cake, pie, pudding, cookies. Of course, when parents are paying $35k-40k per student per year, the school can afford to have many choices.
Insult to prison food.
Yeah, the Pol Pot/Khmer Rouge diet to shed weight...
The next step is to put a federal commissar in each school cafeteria, to oversee the children’s eating habits and ensure that nothing goes to waste.
“Can’t talk...eating.”
I teach in an urban high school, and I always bring up why they have the food they’re served. We just read an excerpt from Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle. The kids understood the connection lol!
I think school lunches are an area in which the federal government should not be involved.
I’m biased in that I desire limited government. However, just don’t see how what kids eat for lunch is somehow the business of some bureaucrats in Washington.
Back in my day, the elementary school didn’t even have a kitchen. All of us had to bring lunch which our mothers made for us. Is it really progress to feed kids some kind of slop at school instead???
Agreed. During the first 12 years of my education, I brought my lunch from home each day. There was no school lunch program, yet I survived.
Parents and not the government are responsible for the nutritional needs of their children.
A lot of women just “don’t like to cook” these days or “aren’t good cooks” they proudly proclaim. It shows and will continue to do so in the future in their family’s health...pet peeve of mine.
No, no, no!
School lunch participation nationally increased from 31.6 million students in 2012 to 30.4 million in 2014,
Get your doublethink correct!
I think school lunches are an area in which the federal government should not be involved.
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I think schools are areas in which the federal government should not be involved.
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