Posted on 10/19/2011 10:56:49 AM PDT by IbJensen
(CNSNews.com) - First Lady Michelle Obama said yesterday that the government can affect who kids will be forever if it can shape their "habits and preferences" during the large part of the day they are at school.
Mrs. Obama was speaking on the South Lawn of the White House at a reception to honor schools that met the goals of the U.S. Department of Agricultures HealthierUS School Challenge (HUSSC). The USDA Web site describes HUSSC as a voluntary initiative established in 2004 to recognize those schools participating in the National School Lunch Program that have created healthier school environments through promotion of nutrition and physical activity. The program has since been rolled into Mrs. Obamas Lets Move! initiative.
When many kids spend half of their waking hours and get up to half their daily calories at school, you know that with the food you serve and, more importantly, the lessons you teach that you're not just shaping their habits and preferences today, youre affecting the choices theyre going to make for the rest of their lives, said Mrs. Obama.
That's why we start with kids, right? she said. We can affect who they will be forever.
At the reception, Mrs. Obama praised the 1,273 schools that have doubled the number of students eating federally subsidized meals that fit the programs criteria.
Among the schools Mrs. Obama praised was the Burlington Elementary School of North Dakota, where, she said, the teachers eat two USDA-approved meals a day with the students.
And the teachers eat breakfast and lunch with students every single day, said Mrs. Obama. Now, that's a sacrifice. You know it. That's love. They even send out a monthly newsletter called, Nutrition Notes, to provide healthy eating tips and recipes for the families.
Youre affecting not just how these kids feed themselves, but how theyre going to feed their own children, she said.
So the beauty is, is that youre not just making this generation of kids healthier, but the next generation as well. And that is truly, truly powerful stuff, she said.
Mrs. Obama said that the children trained in these schools may have a trickle-down effect on their families.
They're changing the way they think about their health and they're trickling that information down to their families, said the First Lady.
John Dewey, Progressive educator
“He alone, who owns the youth, gains the future.”~Adolf Hitler
Sieg Heil!!!
"Hitherto the plans of the educationalists have achieved very little of what they attempted, and indeed we may well thank the beneficent obstinacy of real mothers, real nurses, and (above all) real children for preserving the human race in such sanity as it still posses."
C.S. Lewis
- First Lady Michelle Obama said yesterday that the government can affect who kids will be forever if it can shape their “habits and preferences” during the large part of the day they are at school
If this isn’t a good reason to homeschool children I don’t know what is......These commies will do anything to warp the minds of the next generation
White House Commie opens big mouth & out comes the truth...who made the mistake of letting her speak without TOTUS!
This has been brought to you by the same Department of Indoctrination that brought us the likes of Bill Ayers and Moochelle Obama. Perpetuation of the Communist Doctrine by our Public Educators. Does anyone ever recall Nikita Khrushchev saying “Your children will bury you”? That was not a reference to an open war. It was a reference to we have them.
She’s disgusting
this should put to rest any doubts whether or not gov’t schools are trying to brainwash your children with the latest politically correct crap
BRAINWASHING
This is so NOT the job of the government.
Disney WARNING about indoctrination of children !!
A must see
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QyW-3YC2IVQ
Check this out...
This is a pilot program for changing/managing behaviors in school children from preschool on. This is being piloted in the school district I live in (they received a grant). They talk about intervention a lot...
Eat, march and drink the kool aid.
God help us!!
And her 2 brats go to private schools.
This is exactly what our forefathers did not want to happen.
I’m okay with this if it just involves nutrition in school lunches and teaching kids how our bodies react to different foods. Make it another class and call it “On-Hand Nutritional Science” or something and take a field trip to the cafeteria everyday at noon. Just make them take a test and grade them.
It’s a tough call. But kids sit around all day playing video games when they are not in school. They ain’t helping themselves at all and a little nutrition won’t hurt.
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