'Bureaucracy run amok': School dumps federal lunch program, is deemed 'processing plant'

FOX News ^ | October 21, 2015 | FoxNews.com

[Mears]

“I can remember having to learn EVERY country, capital, mtn. range, river name, etc. in World Geography. I’ve seen too many ‘man on the street’ clips to hope govt schools today are even the SAME as then.”

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That’s how I learned also.

I knew those days were gone when a college student was asked to name the country north of the USA.

Her answer—Hawaii.

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[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

DEATH TO CARROTS AND CELERY STICKS!!!

[tdscpa]

I could very well be wrong. Old-timers disease, you know. In 1967 I was a college senior. My schools had cafeterias in the early 50’s when I started grade school. All of the schools in NW KS had school lunches during all my grade school years.

[T-Bird45]

Interesting about cafeterias in NW KS in the 50s & 60s. Is it possible that it had to do with the rural nature of the area, i.e. long distances? I grew up in Arkansas City KS, population around 13,000 in my youth. In the 50s and into the early 60s, there were still one-room rural schools in operation in that county with grades 1-8.

[tdscpa]

I was born and raised in Colby, about 4,000 pop. at that time. On further thought, I think I did carry a lunch box to school for a year or two (1st & 2nd grade) before they built a new “middle school” (Jr. High) that had the cafeteria.

[T-Bird45]

I spent several unhappy days in Colby back in the 90s, waiting on a broke-down truck to get fixed. Parts don’t get there very quickly. Nice town, though. Thanks for the check back on the discussion!