Michelle Obama's School Lunch Mandates Continue To Fail
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Obama kids school lunch...
The garbage cans are becoming morbidly obese at Rogers High School.
“We’re feeding trash cans a lot of fresh fruits and vegetables,” Robin Kinder, president of the Arkansas School Nutrition Association and assistant child nutrition director for Springdale Public Schools, tells NWAonline.com.
In addition to changing the lunch menu to make it “healthier,” the school sends students back into the line if they fail to take the required fruits and vegetables mandated by the overhaul of the National School Lunch Program.
“It would just go straight to the trash sometimes,” Estefany Corleto, a junior at Rogers High School, says of the foods students are required to take. “I think it was just a waste of food.”
The paper reports after the new regulations took effect, school leaders “could hear a steady ‘thump’ as the students discarded the food in the trash cans just outside the doors to the serving area.”
Kinder says requiring a salad “puts negative peer pressure” on students who might have taken it if they didn’t have to.
According to Kinder, low-sodium and low-fat foods weren’t developed with kids’ tastes in mind.
The low-sodium mashed potatoes, for example, were roundly rejected.
“I have never seen children throw mashed potatoes away,” she says.
Gone, too, is the Frito pie, which was a favorite. The chips had too much salt and weren’t whole grain.
Pickles can only be served with “certain meals.”
But the school is still serving french fries as the potatoes count as a vegetable.
Schools had to “file paperwork” to see relief from the whole wheat requirement.
School leaders are worried as they see costs going up and participation – that is, sales – going down.
“When the kids eat the meal we get paid for it. When the kids don’t eat the meal we don’t get paid,” says Margie Bowers, food services director for Rogers Public Schools.
“It may be a year, it may be a couple years before these programs have to go to the school board and say ‘Hey, we need you to bail out the program,'” Diane Pratt-Heavner, a spokeswoman for the School Nutrition Association, tells the news site.
“A few of the rules just go too far too fast,” Pratt-Heavner says
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Can one stop relying on the damn schools to feed their kids?
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I'm sure the Obamas pay a ton of money for their kids school tuition. Obviously the food would be better. Everything at their school is I'd assume.
I find this ? ridiculous as no school that I attended or know of in my city provided free meals or cheap payment plans for meals. Had to bring food or u didn't eat. By grade 6 I had to make my own damm lunch, or have enough money to buy somethimg from the cafeteria.
1st world problems. Someone up that thread that had all those struggle lunches from around the world. -
I think they be reaching with these representations of school lunches
I could be wrong parents what say you -
as if school lunch aint always been ?
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as if school lunch aint always been ?
School lunch was ? , but it got you through the day.
Which is the whole point of it.
I was in school not that long ago so I remember getting more on a lunch plate than a small ? burger and a kiwi. -
My mom always made sure I had packed lunch regardless cuz most the school lunches were nasty as hell back then(damn cardboard pizza). Maybe if the parents cared to fixed their kids a healthy home cooked meal for lunch they wouldn't have to rely on the school lunches fir taking care of their damn kids. We didn't have much when I was a kid but my mom made sure I'd always have food
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School lunch is a privilege
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Co-Town Michael wrote: »
I think most schools are getting more than that...I think that post is an exaggeration...you know white people -
Capitalists.
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My school had the G.O.A.T food. Ice cream on warm cookies. Pizza puffs. Cheeseburgers. Now and laters. Your parents had to put money on your school I.d.
Junior high and elemantry was the worst. -
Moms alway gave me 30 bucks a week for lunch. Poor people problems!
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Jamaican beef patty, Mexican pizza, and chicken nuggets day>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
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CoonKillaThird wrote: »My school had the G.O.A.T food. Ice cream on warm cookies. Pizza puffs. Cheeseburgers. Now and laters. Your parents had to put money on your school I.d.
Junior high and elemantry was the worst.
... We never got ice cream and pizza puffs...
? your school b -
Moms alway gave me 30 bucks a week for lunch. Poor people problems!
? ....that's 6 dollars a day for the school week. You were good around my way. -
CoonKillaThird wrote: »My school had the G.O.A.T food. Ice cream on warm cookies. Pizza puffs. Cheeseburgers. Now and laters. Your parents had to put money on your school I.d.
Junior high and elemantry was the worst.
... We never got ice cream and pizza puffs...
? your school b
? that was every day!
Cajun fries wit cheese on it .... man and we had open campus. My school was competing with fast food restaurants. -
let me get this straight... before michelle obama public school lunch was awesome and delicious?
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Co-Town Michael wrote: »
I think most schools are getting more than that...I think that post is an exaggeration...you know white people
It is all my nieces and nephews get more than that.Just crackas crackin -
let me get this straight... before michelle obama public school lunch was awesome and delicious?
The point is that she made school lunch/healthy kids her personal issue and the ? don't look no better -
? that school lunch was the ? . specially when you had people who got free lunch but didnt use they number. ? a ? was livin fat off them ? . and dont get me started on breakfast. ? had two chocolate covered cinnabons and a chocolate milk. damn i wish i could go back to school
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My child gets sent to school everyday with lunch so I can't comment
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I feel like this president is getting crucified down to the school lunch. I mean all presidents get crucified but white people (older ones mostly) are really showing their ass on this one. Obama needs to take a ? on the White House lawn the last day.
White America and their sense of entitlement.smh -
These ? wanna b fat then let em. If that ish is free that's even worse.
And muhfuckas wonder y Oprah built her schools in Africa -
Those hot cookies they used to sell were hittin though
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Co-Town Michael wrote: »
? was you in elementary school? what parent goes to eat at school with their high schooler? -
So it's bad that the lunch menu includes vegetables?
Your obesity problem is getting bad when....
