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Research Suggests Students Adjusting to New School Lunches
New York Times ^ | July 21, 2014 | By KJ DELL'ANTONIA

Posted on 07/23/2014 6:48:30 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

The updated standards released by the United States Department of Agriculture, which most schools put in effect over the 2012-13 school year, meant larger, faster changes to lunches nearly across the board.

With the changes came news media reports of student complaints and food waste. A USA Today article in September 2012 described protests and boycotts from Kansas to Massachusetts.

Those objections to the phase-in of the new standards are supported by the findings of two recent studies. Researchers asked school administrators and food-service providers whether students complained “at first” about the new lunches. Many did (56 percent of elementary school administrators responding said students voiced objections to the changed menus in the fall of 2012, and according to the adults responding, some 44 percent of middle school students and 53 percent of high school students did the same). What is more surprising is that those same adults (administrators from more than a thousand schools nationwide) say that by the spring of 2013, the complaints had ebbed away. Most school administrators said that few students were complaining after just a few months of the changed lunches, and that most students (to at least some extent) seemed to like the new lunches.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: lunch; mooch; nannystate; school
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To: glyptol
People have eaten dirt out of desperation

According to my Dad, that's all he ate.

21 posted on 07/23/2014 8:45:00 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
"Researchers asked school administrators and food-service providers whether students complained “at first” about the new lunches. Many did (56 percent of elementary school administrators responding said students voiced objections to the changed menus in the fall of 2012, and according to the adults responding, some 44 percent of middle school students and 53 percent of high school students did the same). What is more surprising is that those same adults (administrators from more than a thousand schools nationwide) say that by the spring of 2013, the complaints had ebbed away."

Amazing how liberals never understand cause and affect and unintended circumstances. Of course, the children stopped complaining. They now just throw the crap away and get what they want through other means. There are reports of kids actually engaging in a black-market for goodies. Kids do what they will.

The idiot "school administrators" and "food service personnel (lunch lady)" think this is an indicator that the kids have accepted the Moochele commie lunch program. Not at all, the kids did a run-around to get what they want. No surprise that they stopped complaining so as to continue their desires for satisfying and calorie packed foods.

22 posted on 07/23/2014 5:21:26 PM PDT by A Navy Vet (An Oath is Forever)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
" most students (to at least some extent)..."

Typical of NY Times to confuse the topic to forward their socialist agenda.

23 posted on 07/23/2014 5:31:26 PM PDT by A Navy Vet (An Oath is Forever)
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