Supt. on snack rules: ‘Asinine’ we don’t have enough teachers and now have to hire ‘food police’

Outrage is growing against federal restrictions on school bake sales and fundraisers.

“We don’t have enough teachers in our classrooms and now we are expected to hire some type of food police to monitor whether we are having bake sales or not. That is just asinine,” John Barge, Georgia state school superintendent tells WSB-TV.

Barge and the state Board of Education are attempting to get an exemption from the snack rules, which would allow only 30 sales per year per school.

School leaders in other states are admitting the new regulations are actually already backfiring.

“The effect has been not what was intended,” says Jack Carter of Richland District 2 near Columbia, South Carolina. “The effect has been kids don’t eat in the cafeteria anymore, and that’s nationwide,” he tells WLTX.

Carter implied there will be a new type of segregation in schools – those that have good lunches, and those that have Michelle Obama’s.

“What’s going to happen now is it’s going to be back to the way it was, say, 7 or 8 years ago; the only kids eating in the cafeteria are going to be the free and reduced-(price lunch) kids, because they just don’t have options,” he says, according to WLTX.

Georgia’s state school board is planning to vote on the “30 sale exemption” proposal on August 21st.

Just hold bake sales off school property on afternoons and ono weekends at friendly businesses who want to cooperate with parents, and do not keep records of the number of them. Do not notify the principal, do not notify the school, and do not let anyone from the school administration have any information about where the money being donated is coming from. Help to foment a new underground economy.

I say this is good. Possibly it will teach kids and parents alike responsibility. I will bring my own lunch thank you very much! All this began with the advent of the school bus picking up the kids FOR FREE! Now it is school at 4 years on up with meals provided. I hope the revolt is overwhelming.

What you are both saying is interesting. However what I take away from your comments and those of others is that we all need to think of ways of being passive/aggressive in our dealings with the bureaucrats in Government.

Also I would like to point out that the advent of the national 55 MPH also brought about the flaunting of many other ‘Laws’ as idiotic or stupid. Today we are seeing the results of that flaunting of the law. As a whole we are a more lawless Nation as compared to how we behaved prior to that silly Law.

As I was told in the military in one of the many schools I attended. Never, ever give an order that you know won’t be obeyed. It lessons your authority and the respect your men have for you in the long run.

Michelle Obama made a mistake with the 'school food' stuff... it's not her issue.

It reeks of white liberal elite feminists - women who never had children and resent their 'stay-at-home and raise children with hubby' sisters.

Michelle needs to back off - tell the white liberal elite feminists that kids need 'home food' to do their best.. Not lots of sugar and soda, but their little bodies know what fuel they need. Put the pizza BACK ON THE MENU. Ask kids to bring in their favorite recipes from Mom and Gram. And yes, even the old maid Aunt who chose a political career over having kids. Yes, tofu burgers have their place - probably not on a school menu, but the recipe can be submitted...

Whoever talked Michelle Obama into this 'cause' should be fired...

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