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Oh, yeah, to amend my earlier post:

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.

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.

When I first started school, there was no cafeteria. Brother and I brought our own lunches, which were at first made by my mother, then when we were old enough, we made our own.

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.