[neverdem]

Those kids will remember these crap sandwiches and whose idea it was, IMHO.

[stevie_d_64]

What really is the worst case is that if kids start bringing their lunches from home, it has been documented in a few cases that their lunches are seized and thrown away because they are not participating, and the schools do promote the peer pressure factor in making those kids feel guilty about bringing their own lunches...

I believe there are a few discussion threads here on FR to illustrate this overstepping by your government and its lackeys...

[Iron Munro]

What's more, the new rules, championed by First Lady Michelle Obama, have also resulted in unprecedented mountains of food waste.

[SandRat]

Even Cookie on Betel Baily serves better meals.

[kagnew]

It seems to me everything the Obama’s touch turns into absolute garbage. I’ve never seen anything like it. I really feel sorry for the school kids who just might have to eat those meals because there isn’t anything else for them. I venture to say that the Obama’s will be like the Clintons and Jimmy Carter, they will never go away.

[Jack Hydrazine]

Let's Move! (LOL!)

[zeestephen]

In the 1950’s, my public elementary school was required to serve certain food items a certain number of days each week.

One ghastly vegetable we called “turnip greens” was served every Tuesday and Thursday.

95% of the kids wouldn't touch it.

Parents finally came in with a local news team and filmed the trash cans overflowing with this stuff.

[GeronL]

Leftists don’t think the school lunches are nearly healthy enough and they joke that pizza is counted as a vegetable

[varon]

That change is intended "to increase participation in the free meals program and to relieve the paperwork burden on schools," reports the Post.

That change is intended to increase the amount of funds being siphoned off by Obama cronies who get the school lunch contracts and administer the program(s)...............

This can become a generational cash cow once implemented and will make Hillary's 6 Billion skimming operation from the State Department look like small potatoes...........

[Amendment10]

Thank you for referencing that article neverdem. Please bear in mind that the following critique is directed at the article and not at you.

Sadly, this school lunch program controversy can be resolved in the minute or two that it takes to review Congress's constitutional Article I, Section 8-limited powers. More specifically, Section 8's silence about intrastate schools not only indicates that Congress has no constitutional authority to decide policy for such schools, but regardless what FDR's activist justices wanted everybody to think concerning the scope of Congress Commerce Clause powers, school lunches clearly intrastate commerce imo, Constitution-respecting justices had prevously officially clarified that Congress has no constitutional authority to regulate intrastate commerce.

”State inspection laws, health laws, and laws for regulating the internal commerce of a State, and those which respect turnpike roads, ferries, &c. are not within the power granted to Congress. (emphases added)” —Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.

And speaking of Constitution-ignoring FDR, he is evidently the president who signed the bill for Public Law 320 which established the National School Lunch Act.

National School Lunch Act

And let's remind ourselves that since Congress has no Section 8 authority to legislatively address what goes on in public schools, that Justice John Marshall had officially clarified in general that Congress has no constitutional authority to lay taxes in the name of subsidizing things like school lunches.

“Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States.” —Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.

So patriots who want their children to have free school lunches need to work with their state lawmakers to stop Congress from laying taxes for such purposes. Such revenues should remain in the states so that the states can exersise their 10th Amedment-protected power to manage free school lunches without Congress's "help."

Finally, patriots have to be on their guard concerning corrupt politians who get themselves elected to federal office by promising entitlement programs in order to win votes from low-information voters. Again, Justice Marshall's statement clarified that Congress doesn't have the constitutional authority to throw taxpayer dollars at intrastate issues.

[Kackikat]

Maybe the food stamp program could go to serving these same meals instead of giving out cards, and it would promote jobs....real demands to go to work and get their own groceries.

[Chickensoup]

I guess the bigger issue is WHY is there a National Lunch Program?

What overreach! This is a town and district issue, certainly not a federal issue.

[terycarl]

any food refused by the students should be immediately donated to local food kitchens...Salvation Army, whatever. they will willingly eat the stuff....

[GSWarrior]

“What Michelle meant was that you could keep your old school lunch menu unless we went ahead and changed it.”

[Elsie]

The expansion, which will impact more than 20,000 school across the country, reports the Washington Post, "will provide free breakfast and lunch, paid for by US taxpayers, to all students in schools where at least 40 percent of the children are low-income."

[bert]

The article misses the point

Veggies for kid’s lunches is not for the kids but to enrich the veggie brokers selling veggies to the schools.

[narses]

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[gogeo]

As I also noted last month, the federal government has decided that these abject failures are evidence of a need to double down on the school lunch program. Why scrap a failing program when you can expand it instead?

This is entirely consistent with the mindset of big government types.

Private enterprise, which is responsible for showing results and making a profit, measures success by measuring actual results.

Government, which wouldn't recognize success if it were dumped in a tank full of it, measures success by inputs...how much money have we spent?

If it didn't work, we obviously didn't spend enough money!

So doubling down on failure is predictable.