Posted on 09/06/2013 7:14:24 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
SACRAMENTO (CBS13) — At Florin High School, every student gets a free lunch, even if they can afford to pay for it, and CBS13 has discovered that a lot of that free food ends up in the trash.
Throwing away food is just the beginning of a drain on your taxpayer dollars.
Last year, 14 percent of students paid for their own meals because they didn’t qualify for free lunch.
“The federal government [now] allows, if 80 percent or more of the school is eligible for free lunch, the paid students, we would feed them for free,” said Michelle Drake with the Elk Grove Unified School District.
In other words, Florin High is opting to provide free lunch to the entire student body on your dime.
(Excerpt) Read more at sacramento.cbslocal.com ...
Some farm labor lobby is still probably benefiting from the program. They have to buy that produce from someplace.
eat your peas!
The kids hate the food and go hungry. The public hates Obamacare and the thought of another war.
And for that matter, just about everything those two do, e.g. expensive vacays, closing the WH, etc. etc.
Orwell defined “political power” as, “the ability to make others suffer.”
Consequently, Barry and his beard are a real power couple.
The students should be issued food stamps redeemable at local restaurants.
Please ask the Mods to remove your post, otherwise the 0bama regime will read it, and then that will become reality.
Never mind, we are sooo screwed anyway...
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It's more about keeping the wallets of the "connected" suppliers full, than in keeping students bellies full.
I would be interested in an audit of the lunch program, to include really looking at the quality of the food supplied.
Excellent point.
It may be that part of the reason the food doesn't taste good enough for kids to want to eat it, is that it's actually rotten.
When my daughter was in elementary school, she loved the school lunches; having participated in my fair share of “lunch with your child” events there I could understand why. The food was really good, down to the point where the bread was baked fresh on the premises every morning.
Boy have things changed. She’s in 10th grade now and absolutely hates the school food and policy changes that went into effect probably about the time she started 8th grade. There is no more a la carte purchasing, so if she wants fruit she has to buy a whole lunch to get an apple or an orange - and this is a child who will polish off a 5 pound bag of oranges and a 5 pound bag of apples in the space of 3 days. She’s been bringing her own with her and just buying a drink at school.
She’s a pretty good kid when it comes to language, but without even flinching she told me point blank “the food sucks.”
Need to bring back the Apple Betty!
Pizza, burgers and fries, sandwiches and a veggie meal should be the only thing served in schools.
And bring back gym class.
In other news...
Schools are now sending letters to parents informing them that their child is obese.
Heh, I remember the articles about that.
When I was a girl in the Southwest, the Mexican food in the cafeteria was always good, because all the cooks were Mexican. On non-Mexican days, kids brought their own lunch if they could.
I’ve been thinking about schools offering giving children a whole apple or whole orange. My kids will eat bushels of fruit, if it’s cut up. Lots of elementary school children are missing teeth, so how are they supposed to eat a whole apple, and it’s not as if they’re allowed to have knives.
This happens at all schools.....if a child doesn’t want something he is forced to take it. If they take a milk and don’t open it, it is thrown in the trash. Vendors only get paid for food that is taken.
I went to a small all girl Catholic high school. On Fridays the offerings were knishes from a neighborhood Jewish deli, pizza from a local pizzaria, or tuna salad sandwiches made in the cafeteria. The deli and pizzaria delivered everything in the morning and they were cooked in the cafeteria kitchen.
Boy, do I miss those knishes - neither my husband or daughter has ever had a real one, just my feeble attempts at recreating that missed food from my childhood. We’re going to Brooklyn later this month for my 35th reunion, so I have just added getting real knishes to my “must bring home” list of things while I’m there. Last time I was back there, I was 8 months pregnant for my 20th reunion, so the child is finally going to see “the city.”
It sounds like you’ll have a terrific experience! Maybe you can find a good brand of frozen knishes and take some home!
No question about that! We'll be staying with my best friend from HS and her family - she was also 8 months pregnant at the 20th reunion so her son Jack (less than a week younger) and my Jax will get to meet for the first time and we're all really excited about that.
Maybe you can find a good brand of frozen knishes and take some home!
Not worried about that, will just hit up a local deli and buy them out and bring them home with me to freeze!
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