We finally get to see the Obama grades and,

[4est_4est_Gump]

Michelle earned an "F."

USDA's School Lunch Reforms Earn an "F" from Students
Baylen Linnekin, Reason.com (Libertarian)
Sep. 22, 2012

January 2012 saw the release of new USDA school lunch rules, crafted in the wake of the passage of the Healthy and Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010. The new rules were meant to do everything from combating obesity to educating kids about healthier food choices.

The rules add more fruits and vegetables to USDA-provided school lunches in public schools; cap salt, fat, and calories; and replace white flour with whole wheat flour. The new rules also added to the cost of school lunch.

Supporters heaped praises on the new rules after their release.

First Lady Michelle Obama, who "championed" the rule changes, claimed they would make sure “our hard work [as parents is not] undone each day in the school cafeteria.”

Margo Wootan, director of nutrition policy at the Center for Science in the Public Interest, gushed the new rules were the “best ever.”

The headline to New York University Prof. Marion Nestle’s Atlantic column on the new rules, which she claimed had been met with “near-universal applause”? “The USDA’s New School Nutrition Standards Are Worth Celebrating.”

But all the hype and purported unanimous support seemed perfectly implausible to me.

As I wrote in Reason back in May, even “with new rules set to take effect in the coming months, I’m not optimistic that the quality of school food is likely to change anytime soon.”

...

Earlier this month, the start of the school year around the country gave the new rules their first test. Results have not been pretty.

Seventy percent of students at one Wisconsin high school boycotted USDA school lunches. As one student at the school told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, the changes have meant the food is “worse tasting, smaller sized and higher priced.”

Across the country in Connecticut, a student petition protesting the smaller portion sizes resulted in the school district abandoning the rules after “only a few days.”

Even in schools where this sort of open insurrection isn’t yet evident, some reports show students are voting against the new USDA rules with their parent-provided dollars.

“At one recent lunch at the McCook Junior High, students cheerfully grabbed an orange or apple as part of their lunch,” writes Lorri Sughroue in an optimistically titled piece, “No Food Fight Here: Students Adjust to New School Lunches,” that appeared in the McCook (Nebraska) Daily Gazette this week.

“But afterward,” continues Sughroue, “a long line of kids formed at the ‘Snack Bar,’ which sells cookies, pretzels, potato chips and Powerade.”

Sughroue also quoted Sodexo employee Diana Gull, who observed, “There’s a line [at the Snack Bar] until the bell rings, it’s non-stop."

The rules have also meant other headaches, including barring kids from customizing their USDA school lunches. Don’t want cheese on your tacos, Junior? Tough.

So what is one to conclude about the new USDA rules and they way they’re being implemented?

Just weeks into the new school year, it appears that the new rules largely treat every student as if they’re obese, and that it is the USDA’s position that fewer animal products and more fruits, vegetables, and whole grains will help them shed the necessary weight.

I’m not a nutritionist. But putting millions of growing, hungry schoolkids on a restricted diet—from student-athletes to needy kids who may count on the school lunch as “their best, and perhaps only, meal of the day”—under the guise of a Healthy and Hunger-Free Kids Act—seems like dangerous doublespeak.

Others agree. In New York, certified nutritionist Kim Thompson told WKTV she now “recommends that student athletes bring extra food to school or buy extra food in the cafeteria.”

Kansas school superintendent Suzan Patton, meanwhile, informed the Pratt Tribune, "It’s not addressing the needs of the kids that are healthy." Furthermore, she said, "One size fits all is not meeting all the needs."

Some prominent National School Lunch Program supporters also appear to be qualifying their support. Bettina Siegel, perhaps best known as the driving force behind the removal of so-called pink slime from school lunches and elsewhere, writes that school lunch portion sizes now show “clearly we have a problem”—it may be that they’re now too small.

http://reason.com/archives/2012/09/22/usdas-school-lunch-reforms-earning-an-f/print

 

[kbate]

I agree with me in the other thread.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

I agree with me in the other thread.

Wow...

This is the correct thread.

 

[unregistered]

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

Nobody elected her to have any fucking say whatsoever about what the nation's schools serve for meals. She ought to mind her own fucking business.

How dare you say that when everyone knows she is the smartest woman ever to be first lady...



*snicker*

Hillary never put in a garden!

 

[mercury14]

Nobody elected her to have any fucking say whatsoever about what the nation's schools serve for meals. She ought to mind her own fucking business.

She acted under executive office authority.

 

[miles]

MercDownSouth...what are you doing up so early?

 

[RobDownSouth]

MercDownSouth...what are you doing up so early?

Mercury is up injecting facts into the usual AJ/Vetty/kbate smearfests.
Me? I'm up early to pray for your family.

 

[miles]

When did you two become an item?

 

[RobDownSouth]

When did you two become an item?

Eat kosher shit and die, Miles!

 

[garbage can]

She acted under executive office authority.

Does she receive a salary?

 

[mercury14]

Does she receive a salary?

The Task Force on Childhood Obesity did not have a payroll roster. Do you know what a task force is?

 

[RobDownSouth]

The Task Force on Childhood Obesity did not have a payroll roster. Do you know what a task force is?

Task force once kicked down his front door and arrested his momma for kissin' men for money. Scared him real good, it did.

 

[LiFeNdEaTh]

Wow...

This is the correct thread.

lol @ you..

 

[chillywilly2]

Well thats bullshit.

How dare they stop the kids from eating whatever they want.

If the little fuckers want to get fat its their choice.

I'm with Vette on this one....put the kids in charge

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

Well thats bullshit.

How dare they stop the kids from eating whatever they want.

If the little fuckers want to get fat its their choice.

I'm with Vette on this one....put the kids in charge

The kids are in charge...

 

[unregistered]

 

[RobDownSouth]

She has no constitutional authority to to do anything except be the first wife.

Women in positions of authority have always frightened you.

 

[VaticanAssassin]

Every First lady since Elanor has had some type of pet project or another...Nancy did Drug education and rehab. Great idea but probably did little to help.
Barbra did a great job fighting illiteracy.
Hillary had healthcare.....thatdid not work out so good.
Lara continued fighting illiteracy and focused on Aids


Michelle has this...and by all accounts it has failed miserable.

But at the end of the day who cares.... Should not change anyones vote...

 

[koalabear]

Women in positions of authority have always frightened you.

^^^voice of experience.

 

[mercury14]

She has no constitutional authority to to do anything except be the first wife.

If an executive office function includes her then she operates under the executive branch. WTF is wrong with you?

 

[Adre]

White man angry that black woman is way more important than he is...

 

[unregistered]

 

[garbage can]

If an executive office function includes her then she operates under the executive branch. WTF is wrong with you?

Brilliant....

Does she have an official executive office position?

 

[Sean]

I'm an American, that's what's wrong.

Good to see you finally coming to terms. Admitting it is the first step, gl!