But don't trust those Bozite luggage handlers.
Posted on 10/16/2015 11:51:44 AM PDT by PROCON
Full Title: Hundreds of students return to the cafeteria after Montana high school relinquishes $120,000 in federal funding and drops Michelle Obama's lunch program
The decision by officials at a high school in Montana to give up $117,000 in federal money and drop Michelle Obama's healthy lunch program has proved to be a popular and profitable success.
Business has been booming in Bozeman High School's cafeteria since its board members voted to drop the National School Lunch Program in a bid to keep students from leaving campus to eat.
The lunch program set limits on calories, fat and salt in lunches and mandated that more whole grains, fruits and vegetables should be served in order to curb the onset of childhood obesity.
Many students who weren't fans of the lunch program would leave campus to get fast food at lunch, but they've been returning now that the program is gone, the Bozeman Daily Chronicle reported.
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Happens with my two kids all the time. One’s in 8th grade the other in 10th. They hit the door and head for the kitchen. The other day the one in 8th grade commented that he had REAL chicken for lunch today and ate 3 or 4 pieces. 90% of the time it’s the food is so bad we don’t eat and to the point they don’t even complain. So when they get real food they are excited.
We need a serious regression in America. To the 40s/50s at minimum.
It's a good idea, Norm.
Actually, they all should be put in zoos so future generations can view them and not make the same mistakes.
Our school did not have an open lunch period. Kids were confined to the school building. They either brought their own lunch, or they had to eat school lunch, or they begged someone to bring them something, or they went without.
There was some racket from the District Office about parents bringing fast food into the school for their kids, but our principal just said that he wasn't going to get involved with a mother who was bringing her kids something to eat at lunch.
Thats generally the idea. But if we just cage them, weld the door shut and leave them to rot along highways, more people will see them. Think of it as “Scared Straight” for the modern era.
And it’s a net gain for the environment too.
My kids came home starving sometimes too. Occasionally I would go to the school to have lunch with them. If we got the cafeteria food I’d pass most of mine off to them. If I brought food from outside we usually had McD’s.
And at the school district I worked at in Oregon, the 90lb cheerleader and 200lb football player received the exact same portions with NO SECONDS under Moochie’s program.
Most excellent. Mind if I steal that?
Well said. I may have to borrow this.
Which 40s/50s did you want to return to?
Good for that school-I hope that happens all over the country, so the kids can have some real food at lunch.
Michelle doesn’t know what she is talking about anyway-kids need protein and fat from fresh meat, the veggies and fruit they are served need to be fresh, not canned or frozen and cooked to death-and they do not need all those “whole grains”-which are nothing but empty carbs with little or no real nutrition. Most parents obviously know more about nutrition than someone who should wear a wide load banner across her beam...
In some places, it gets even sillier. There are schools in challenged neighborhoods where everybody gets free breakfast and lunch. My favorite was one where some of the little darlin's would come to school with their McDs breakfast, pick up the required free breakfast and throw the free meal away except for the milk.
About those packaged meals: It's really sad. In HeadStart programs within public schools, the tots get free meals. They fed those little 4 year olds stuff like plastic-wrapped pastries and as a "learning experience" they had to open the plastic packaging themselves. I wonder how many moms would feed that crap to their toddlers if they were in charge of feeding them.
Besides which, I just don't get the free meal program. Shouldn't the parents have to pay for the meals with Food Stamps? The gov is already providing them money to feed their families.
In my high school, there was an old gal that made big trays of cornbread. Moist, beautifully browned on top. It was always a sell-out. Probably full of butter and lard. Whatever.
The one from that pic works.
But it’s about damn time someone stood up and said FOAD to the communists in DC.
The Boston Tea Party was a small thing. But a story told often, be sure to tell this story.
We can hope. Rejecting the Fed teat would fo a long way to fixing what ails us.
Then the district opened a cafeteria. Not allowed to leave the building and eventually, not allowed to bring our own lunches. The food was some kind of surplus like the blocks of cheese the feds gave out to the elderly and the poor. It was putrid, but at least we could get some version of pizza, burgers and fries. Now who knows what they serve now. Tofu, I guess.
I'd like to hope that a conservative president, in cooperation with a conservative congress, will do away with this program altogether. Speaking of doing away, how about we get rid of the Department of Education and let the states take control of education.
That’s the first thing I thought of when I saw Bozeman. I’m a lost cause.
Once again the British press and FR report what we need to know.
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