Indiana school district loses $300K because students refuse to buy first lady’s healthy meals
School officials in Carmel Clay, Ind., said they lost $300,000 last school year because students are rejecting the healthy menu changes brought on by First Lady Michelle Obama’s federal lunch regulations.
“I’ve had a lot of complaints, especially with the little guys,” Linda Wireman, a food service director for North White School Corp., told JCOnline. “They get a three-quarters cup of vegetables, but if it’s something they don’t like, it goes down the garbage disposal. So there are a lot of complaints they’re going home hungry.”Amy Anderson, the food service director for the school district, said the rules made her feel less like an educator and more like a “food cop.” The changes have even made her consider retiring early.
Lori Shofroth, Tippecanoe School Corp.’s food service director, said many students are throwing food away, putting a dent in the district’s budget.
“They’re teaching our kids with this meal pattern that it’s OK to throw away,” she told JCOnline. “We did a waste study on three different schools, and there was a huge amount of waste. That was just with produce, fruit or vegetables or milk.”
Other students don’t eat the lunches at all, resulting in a $300,000 loss for the district.
Never mind the fact that the constitution gives absolutely no authority to the federal government to have anything to do with the regulation of schools or education. Never mind that in spite of this we have a federal Department of Education. Never mind that for decades the school lunch program has been a boondoggle for supporting things like milk prices. Honestly, do any of you have milk with pizza? So now the lunch fascists, well intentioned as they may be, are demanding that kids eat their veggies....or else! The road to hell, as the ysay, is paved with good intentions.
How about maybe the kids parents take a little responsibility for what their kids eat rather than dumping the responsibility on to the Feds with obvious bad results. Where do you think the district is going to make up the $300,000 that they lost? Whose pocket is that going to come out of?
