Students, Faculty Rejoice as PA School Drops Federally-Regulated School Lunch Program

A Pennsylvania high school is no longer bound by federal food regulations after the district decided to do away with the National School Lunch Program. Penn-Trafford High School had been struggling to comply with federal regulations as cafeteria revenues and student lunch participation took a dive, the Tribune-Review reported.

The school’s lunch program is now free from restrictions on calories, fat, sugar, salt, and other elements, but lost federal funding to help cover free and reduced-priced lunches for some students. However, district business manager Brett Lago said the district has still been able to provide free and reduced-price lunches to students eligible for the school lunch program.

“We’ve lost, to date, about $40,000 worth of reimbursement, but our sales are up about $50,000 over last year,” he said. “Participation has gone from about 25 percent to 45 percent, and we’re still providing free lunches to all those students who would have been eligible under the school lunch program.”

Thank you for referencing that article davikkm. Please note that the following critique is directed at the article and not at you.

“We’ve lost, to date, about $40,000 worth of reimbursement, …”

FR: Never Accept the Premise of Your Opponent’s Argument

Patriots are reminded that the states have never expressly constitutionally delegated to the feds the specific power to regulate, tax and spend in the name of INTRAstate schooling. This is evidenced by the excerpts below.

On a few articles of more general and necessary use, the suppression in due season will doubtless be right, but the great mass of the articles on which impost is paid is foreign luxuries, purchased by those only who are rich enough to afford themselves the use of them. Their patriotism would certainly prefer its continuance and application to the great purposes of the public education, roads, rivers, canals, and such other objects of public improvement as it may be thought proper to add to the constitutional enumeration of federal powers [emphases added]”—Thomas Jefferson : Sixth Annual Message to Congress.
"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.
From the accepted doctrine that the United States is a government of delegated powers, it follows that those not expressly granted, or reasonably to be implied from such as are conferred, are reserved to the states, or to the people. To forestall any suggestion to the contrary, the Tenth Amendment was adopted. The same proposition, otherwise stated, is that powers not granted are prohibited [emphasis added].” —United States v. Butler, 1936.

So the lost $40,000 worth of reimbursement is arguably local tax revenues that the corrupt feds stole from the community in the form of unconstitutional federal taxes, taxes that Congress cannot justify under its constitutional Article I, Section 8-limited powers.

Patriots need to support Pres. Trump in working with the states to put a stop to unconstitutional federal taxes. Once that is done then the states will probably find a tsunami of new revenues that they won’t know what to do with, establishing their own social security and healthcare programs for starters, along with improving intrastate schools and other infrastructure.

The cities are packed with people who don’t even know how to prepare food for themselves. They literally eat every meal at a restaurant or get take out from a restaurant. Their kids are lucky if they get a bowl of cereal for breakfast. You expect them to prepare a decent bagged lunch for their kids ? Especially when busy body teachers “reject” 90% of the stuff we used to get in our packed lunches as “unhealthy” and won’t let the kid eat it ? A PBJ, banana, chips, and soda would get trash canned by these teachers.

If parents want to pay for their kids to eat prepared hot meals that they actually enjoy, I think that is their business. As long as it is run at a profit, I have no problem with it.

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