Posted on 11/11/2014 2:58:30 PM PST by RightGeek
HASKELL, Okla. – A chicken patty, small scoop of mashed potatoes and carton of milk aren’t enough to sustain a high school boy.
But under the school lunch regulations championed by First Lady Michelle Obama, that’s what Haskell High School served recently.
Haskell High School senior Darrel Bunch took a photo of one of his recent skimpy school lunches and sent it to Fox 23.
“It’s mostly the portions,” Bunch says. “Last year we started getting less food.”
“Last year, my boys started calling me, ‘Can you please bring me something to eat?’ ‘We’re still hungry,’ or, ‘This is gross,” the student’s mother, Cheryl Bunch tells the news station.
Another photo taken by a different student showed a single cheese-filled bread stick with marinara sauce.
"When they serve a bread stick and marinara, it’s like, ‘Here, I’ve given up on trying to find you something nutritious and healthy,'” Cheryl Bunch says.
The school refused to allow the news station to show that day’s lunch servings. They wouldn’t even speak on camera.
Haskell superintendent Sharon Herrington defended the lunches off-camera, saying students are offered five items and they are required to take three. That means the chicken patty, glob of potatoes and milk would qualify as a complete lunch under the federal rules.
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Mmmm, makes you hungry just looking at those things. /s
The republicans that we have elected this term BETTER do something about sh*t like this!
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I agree with YOU.
The above line was cited from #35 and I used it as a ref point...
The communists will steal those home-made lunches, throw them in the trash, and issue government standard slop in their stead.
You will CONFORM!!!
Why is the packer flipping her off?
Boy is she going to kill him later.
You are a statistical anomaly that has to shovel food down your hole to break even.
My nephew has to pay for school lunches. He goes home instead.
a lot of schools will not allow students to bring them to school.
You might be thinking that my comments are somehow supporting these rediculous school lunch programs. They are not. However comments suggesting that a 2000 cal meal is normal or reasonable for schoolkids are completely outlandish and have little bearing on the reality of the caloric needs of the average schoolkid.
I am thinking you are a 140lb skinny guy.
You don’t get what food energy it takes to build a strong American.
I’m about 170 lbs, have a broken bone in my left hand, and would take you out like a bag of dirt.
Prisoners in Texas eat better than that. Try giving them that junk.
Enough of your abusive tripe.
But calling me an "asshole"? Now, that's presumptuous.
I am, however gaining a bit of insight to your situation.
Probably because they throw away the school lunch and go buy candy bars at the snack shop.
Don’t knock it! While my brother and I were eating a decent breakfast, my dear mother was in the kitchen making our lunches - a sandwich, peanut butter or some cheese and meat, an apple and a home made cookie. We had a lunchbox with a thermos for milk.
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