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What always gets me is the supposed reason of the anti healthy lunch crowd that kids are now “throwing away their food” and therefore the program doesn’t work.
They use the bs reason, because saying “it’s impacting the profit margins of our corporate sponsors” doesn’t go down very well with their constituents.
Anyway, the “throw away food” food statement always gets me because it assumes that the kids didn’t throw away their food before the change to begin with. These folks have clearly never been inside of a school cafeteria.
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Kick ass, Michelle! It’d be good if you also said a few words to those halcyon GOTPers who only believe “rural children” (aka white kids) deserve meal programs outside the school year while “urban children” (aka “non-white” kids) do not.
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These folks have clearly never been inside of a school cafeteria.
Or they don’t know very much about children. Yes, you have a push a new food on a kid over and over again before he’ll try it. That’s what you do. That’s how it works.
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Can someone explain what a net loss is for a school lunch program. Are the repugs expecting schools to make a profit on their lunch programs?
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I hate to keep repeating myself, but can these detractors get any more disgusting. As someone said above, yeah kids don’t like new food and especially healthy food,too bad. They don’t know what’s best.
We have doctors saying they are seeing obese babies for goodness sake. I have been taking notice myself of how many overweight young kids I am seeing - a couple belonging to some of my co-workers who should know better - but the parents are in denial or make some excuse.
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Once again it comes down to the fact that our schools are in no way, shape or form properly funded. Teachers are chronically underpaid, facilities are crumbling for lack of capital expenditure, technology is a decade behind while we make more fuss over “common Core” or “merit based pay” or NCLB or whatever the latest mantra is. Yes, how and what we teach is important. WHO is doing the teaching and WHERE we do it are far more important. If we expect this country to be able to compete globally in 20 years, we’d better start fixing our education system…
What a great FLOTUS! Michelle Obama rocks!
Eat your fruits veggies!
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