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Michel Sasso, replenish's food items along the lunch line of the cafeteria at Draper Middle School in Rotterdam, N.Y., Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2012. The leaner, greener school lunches served under new federal standards are getting mixed grades from students. (AP Photo/Hans Pennink)



With new federal guidelines dictating what is served at school cafeterias during lunch time, school districts all over the country have reworked their menus to accommodate the new rules.  The changes include serving more whole grains, daily doses of fruits and vegetables, less sugar and salt, and only low- or non-fat milk.
For the first time, school lunches must have age-aligned calorie maximums, capping the amount of calories high school students eat to around 850 calories.  The new restrictions all come from the updated Dietary Guidelines for Americans from the U.S. Department of Agriculture and are funded by the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010 – legislation promoted by Michelle Obama.
While the changes may seem like a step in a healthier direction, not all students are finding them so tasty.  On Monday, about 70 percent of the 830 students at Mukwonago High School in Wisconsin who typically buy their lunch boycotted the school’s cafeteria, the Milwaukee-Wisconsin Journal Sentinel reported.  The high schoolers were joined by middle schoolers in the district, reducing the number of lunches sold by half.
According to the Journal Sentinel, the Mukwonago School District is not alone, as many other schools nationwide are also reporting students frustrated with the new rules.
One such student from Mukwonago High, Nick Blohm, said the healthier food is not so much the problem as it is portion size.  A 6-foot-3-inch, 210-pound linebacker, Blohm said he burns around 3,000 calories during three hours of football practice and weight training.  He’s also the class president, and he’s taking various Advanced Placement classes.  But the new caps, he said, are making it harder to perform both physically and academically.
"A lot of us are starting to get hungry even before the practice begins," Blohm told the Journal Sentinel. "Our metabolisms are all sped up."
Another issue for students at Mukwonago is the new pricing, the Journal Sentinel said. A 10-cent price increase was added to lunches by the USDA in order to make lunches closer to the $2.86 it typically reimburses for students who qualify for free lunches.  That increased raised the new lunches from $2.40 to $2.50.
Not only are students upset with the new changes, but Mukwonago officials are on board as well.  While students and staff members alike agree that childhood obesity is a major concern, many are saying the new lunch guidelines are too abrupt and don’t take students’ unique lifestyles into account.
"I could not be more passionate about this," Pam Harris, the Mukwonago district food service supervisor and a registered dietitian, told the Journal Sentinel. "I want to solve this problem. But limiting calories in school lunch is not going to help the overweight kid. What happens at home is a major piece of that puzzle."
Mukwonago had students fill out cards about what they did and didn’t like about the new lunch.  According to the Journal Sentinel, Harris plans to send the cards to the USDA, along with parent letters, in hopes that representatives will allow their school district and others to integrate their new lunch plan over time.


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I wonder if the condiment Reagan renamed as a vegetable... "Ketchup" is still on the menu?

Quoted from Box A Rox

I wonder if the condiment Reagan renamed as a vegetable... "Ketchup" is still on the menu?

Your point with that comment would be? And how exactly does it pertain to the topic? If I were to hazard a guess, it would seem you have made, in my opinion, a rather feeble attempt at humor. I must give you a failing grade for your effort. Are you also a product of the Schenectady school system?

Please stay on topic.

Quoted from 3303

Your point with that comment would be? And how exactly does it pertain to the topic? If I were
to hazard a guess, it would seem you have made, in my opinion, a rather feeble attempt at humor.
I must give you a failing grade for your effort. Are you also a product of the Schenectady
school system?

Please stay on topic.

Quoted Text

"With new federal guidelines dictating what is served at school cafeterias during lunch time,
school districts all over the country have reworked their menus to accommodate the new rules.
The changes include serving more whole grains, daily doses of fruits and vegetables, less sugar and
salt, and only low- or non-fat milk.

"The ketchup as a vegetable" controversy refers to a proposed  Ronald Reagan directive, that would
have reclassified ketchup and pickle relish from condiments to vegetables, allowing public schools to
cut out a serving of cooked or fresh vegetable from hot lunch program child-nutrition requirements.

And no... thankfully I didn't partake in the Schenectady School system.

What's was wrong with the Schenectady system...that was before any security, voilence....and so on with today's system...

Back when....you got educated......respectful......and above all...went on to be productive....

that's when teachers knew how to teach and the system was geared to  common sense......AND HOW TO DRESS....

AND .....LEGIBLE WRITING......

Quoted from Box A Rox

"The ketchup as a vegetable" controversy refers to a proposed  Ronald Reagan directive, that would
have reclassified ketchup and pickle relish from condiments to vegetables, allowing public schools to
cut out a serving of cooked or fresh vegetable from hot lunch program child-nutrition requirements.

And no... thankfully I didn't partake in the Schenectady School system.

Yeah, and I am sure that RR actually wrote that proposal himself in this attempt to stop the federal bureaucrats in Washington from screwing the local districts with mandates from 2,000 miles away that were unfunded.

Quoted from Patches

What's was wrong with the Schenectady system...that was before any security, voilence....and so on with today's system...

Back when....you got educated......respectful......and above all...went on to be productive....

that's when teachers knew how to teach and the system was geared to  common sense......AND HOW TO DRESS....

AND .....LEGIBLE WRITING......

Patches, you should take your own advice re: Legible Writing. Patches v. Legible Writing = oxymoron.

I wonder what ever happened to parents or - if they are older students - the students themselves making a brown bag lunch and bringing it to school.  My siblings and I were expected to make up our own lunches by the time we were in in 3rd or 4th grade.  

Quoted from Patches

What's was wrong with the Schenectady system...that was before any security, voilence....and so on with today's system...

Back when....you got educated......respectful......and above all...went on to be productive....

that's when teachers knew how to teach and the system was geared to  common sense......AND HOW TO DRESS....

AND .....LEGIBLE WRITING......

DVOR is product of Schdy school system...so do you still hold same value of educated; respectful; productive ??? Obviously failed with some

Unlike the rest of you......judging one's intelligence is not for the faint......seems like all of you just like stepping on people....your comments aren't well-teken by many...

it's better to throw the poop and hide behind the facade of projecting intelligence......ridicule vs ignorance......that's what I see......

take care ya'all.

Quoted from Patches

Unlike the rest of you......judging one's intelligence is not for the faint......seems like all of you just like stepping on people....your comments aren't well-teken by many...

it's better to throw the poop and hide behind the facade of projecting intelligence......ridicule vs ignorance......that's what I see......

take care ya'all.

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Quoted from 3303

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Patches is saying that he's rubber and you are glue.

Keep throwing poop his way.

Quoted from Libertarian4life

Patches is saying that he's rubber and you are glue.

Keep throwing poop his way.

Libertarian4life, thank you for translating. Do you have a Patches to English dictionary? Where might one find it? May I borrow yours?

Now the translation is done I shall.

Quoted from 3303

Patches, you should take your own advice re: Legible Writing. Patches v. Legible Writing = oxymoron.

?????????    oxymoron.....



we don't always know what the other means .....as I to you......ha ha ha ha ha.....ya nos
what i's meen???

My experience was mostly with the Catholic school system with only a short time in the public school system.  In both cases, the students brought lunches from home or in some cases (if they lived close enough) ate at lunch at home.  
As for the quality of public school education back then -- I think a lot depended on what the individual chose to make of it and to some degree the teachers one had.  There were some very exceptionally good teachers and only a couple that I would rate as mediocre or poor.