We did manage years ago to get the local school district to quit forcing milk off on kids with lactose intolerance. The dieticians objected because, they said, the children would be consuming too much juice with too much sugar.
That's just ridiculous...but then again, so is a lot of stuff that goes on in school cafeterias.
There's a couple of ladies I work with that have been there 18 and 19 years, respectively, and all the ladies know their stuff.
Its the bureaucratic bs that's the problem. NO school has the right to be health Nazis.
Food, in and of itself, doesn't make ANYONE fat, lack of exercise does.... and making a perfectly healthy meal is pointless when a kid goes home and eats 4 bowls of cereal.
Besides, if their going to make the kids do without a soda machine, they need to quit being hypocrites and remove them from the teachers lounges too.