Posted on 10/26/2015 8:11:34 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Nathan Greenberg believes he runs a school district, but government bureaucrats look at his Londonderry, N.H., operation and see …. a food processing plant?
That’s the strange dilemma the 5,000-student district finds itself in after deciding at the end of the last school year to pull the high school out of the unpopular National School Lunch Program. While the district’s elementary and middle schools remain in the program, which sets portion and nutrition guidelines for students, provides low cost staples and subsidizes meals of low-income pupils, it proved immensely unpopular at the high school.
“We saw the [federally-mandated] food going right into the garbage,” said Greenberg. “We had some of the healthiest trash cans in the state of New Hampshire.”
Before the current school year began in the town of 24,000 neighboring Manchester, the district decided to pull the older students out of the program. Doing so gave officials flexibility in what meals they offered and how they were prepared. The high school now has a new snack room, a coffee bar and a frozen-yogurt machine, and a salad bar is set to open next month. Participation in the school lunch program rose from 29 percent to 33 percent, according to officials.
Greenberg’s goal was not to provide a less healthy menu, but to provide more choices and ensure the food was actually consumed.
“We knew full well that in doing so, we would have to pick up the tab for the [high school] kids who got free and reduced-price lunches,” Greenberg said. “We were okay with that.
“We were able to offer nutritious lunches with greater variety,” he continued. “We have seen greater participation and enthusiasm, as well as significantly less waste.”
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Nanny State PING!
“food processing plant”? Can you say Soylent Green?
At 67 I grew up when we didn’t have school cafeterias and we took a sack lunch, and bought a 5 cent half pint of milk. Ate at our desk, then went out side on non rain days for exercise, plus the 2 fifteen minute periods for recess. Gym on rainy days.
Those were the good old days. Bologna or peanut butter sandwiches, and a couple of cookies your mom made.
Need to bring it back.
Ah we had it good back in the old days. Donuts in the mornings IF WE WANTED THEM. Various juices from the vending machines IF WE WANTED THEM. All sorts of snacks Hot Dogs, Pizza, and sodas were readily available IF WE WANTED THEM. The cafeterias served good food with lots of options for those kids that had allergies, or other. Specifically Junior high (now called Middle School), and High school.
We also learned something in school too. Yup, during our time Long Beach, California was the best in the West. For that matter in the fifties it was #1 rated in the country.
California was the best, but the Left couldn’t stand it, so we are where we are today.
...“We saw the [federally-mandated] food going right into the garbage,” said Greenberg...
Its just not a Federal program unless there is significant waste of some kind.
Assume you meant “In 67”...
Ya, Mom was HOME.
Kids SHARED BEDROOMS.
We PLAYED WITH SIBLINGS AND FRIENDS
NOT
THOUSANDS OF DOLLAR worth of toys.
Schools taught USEFUL SUBJECTS.
Yep.
I attended Catholic schools in Detroit 1947-1959. Never saw a cafeteria. Up to the 10th grade or so we brownbagged it, then, if we could trick our parents out of change to eat at drug stores, delis or bakeries, we could eat lunch with the big kids. We survived, won the City Championship in football, went on to successful careers.
I am a meat Popsicle.
But... but... but Michelle wants your kids eating carrots and celery sticks.
Perhaps she means she is 67 now, not when she was in grade school. In 1967, I think nearly all schools had cafeterias.
There are still a few of us oldies around. Very few 67 year old “children” were in grade school.
As usual, the simple solution works best: junk the government program for ALL schools. Then tell the state and the feds to put the food where the sun don’t shine.
And you'd be wrong. That year was the very first year for the first cafeteria in the brand new junior high school of my youth. The elementary schools were strictly a brown-bag or go-home lunch situation. The high school was downtown with access to lunch counters or get in your car to go to a drive-in or brown-bag. I write all of this from first-hand experience with each as I was part of the first group to experience the new cafeteria in 1967 as a 7th-grade student in that mid-sized Kansas town.
Ah, the time when govt didn’t reach into EVERY aspect of ones’ lives and wallet.
Where one head of household could earn enough to: support the family, buy a car, have a TV, save for college, go on vacation, save for retirement, have spending $$, etc. etc. etc.
As those in my age group (40’s) or younger a simple question: Why can you NOT have children where one of you stays home to raise, but instead ‘pawn off’ into daycare , pay $1000+/mo, etc.?
I HIGHLY doubt govt would come to mind....or it would take MANY minutes to formulate that train of thought: work => $$ => taxes => govt => less $$
OH!
The coincidence of math and time?!
” Local school districts in New Hampshire that are working to both ensure proper nutrition for———”Ayotte said in a statement.
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I remember the days when schools were responsible for education and parents were responsible for nutrition.
Now that seems to be a radical idea.
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That was YEARS past. When cursive, Civics and non-magic math, to name a few, were still part of the curriculum.
I can remember having to learn EVERY country, capital, mtn. range, river name, etc. in World Geography. I’ve seen too many ‘man on the street’ clips to hope govt schools today are even the SAME as then.
Again, when mom/dad/etc. have to write the check/month for the education of their brood, then, and ONLY then, will things start to improve. And I, for one, would surely love to have my own $$ back (since I have none currently).
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