Posted on 01/16/2015 7:24:39 AM PST by PROCON
Students across the United States are getting a taste of progressivism. And it doesn’t seem to please their palates. The implementation of Michelle Obama’s anti-obesity lunch standards is encountering backlash from students and school administrators across the country. The program seems to have taught them a valuable lesson in the realities of progressivism -- that when American voters give up power to busy-body progressives, the result is more control over their lives and the loss of individual liberties. They responded to this newfound reality with boycotts, social media angst, and filled trash cans instead of filled bellies.
According to the Government Accountability Office (GAO), the Healthy Hunger-Free Kids Act has led to 1M children leaving the lunch line. Additionally, 48 out of 50 states are having a hard time complying with the new standards. Sodium limits, portion requirements, and calorie ranges for each group are leaving schools struggling to serve food that is edible and nourishing. The program faces many challenges, and despite its seemingly good intentions, the new standards are leaving a bad taste in the mouths of students, parents and school administrators.
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Not when school lunches are expanding to 6 PM childcare with free school dinners and school lunches during the summer - as if parents on SNAP somehow can’t feed them from May through August with the food money we give them, the same way they feed them on weekends and holiday breaks.
If a child isn’t getting fed by a parent without a school lunch, the parent should be investigated for child abuse or child neglect, and anyone who says they can’t feed their kid despite getting SNAP and other welfare should be sterilized immediately.
School Lunch Communists Nanny State PING!
No, of course not.
progressivism and liberal ideology is based on arrogance.
The subscriber of the above believe they know what is best for everyone as they are so much better educated, far more intelligent and generally of a much higher caliber than everyone else.
As such, they deserve to tell everyone else how to life their life - like it or not.
The world is filled with these types and they’ll always be with us. They’ll always get involved in local or federal politics to push their agenda.
These people are just never going away
Why not? Progressives have destroyed the rest of the educational system.
The GOP should take the side of the kids...
Insist on a variety of foods put out for kids to eat that they can choose between. Then charge based on weight of plate...
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