The National School Lunch Policy

[kentonio]

Aye, I think he can be proud of what he managed to achieve though, and it does show that changes like preparing real food can work.

[snoopy369]

Umm, try again?

It is a CPS policy that principals should use common sense when running their schools? Like I said, nice troll, but give it up.

[Imran Siddiqui]

I fell your pain *snicker* but it is problematic to tell the people paying for it that they can't dictate what's being served (stupid as the rules sound).

Exactly. Why is it so objectionable that the people paying for meals dicate how those meals are to be served?

[DinoDoc]

Exactly. Why is it so objectionable that the people paying for meals dicate how those meals are to be served?

Because the policy being enforced is stupid?

[Imran Siddiqui]

Because the policy being enforced is stupid?

I think the basic don't be fatasses or encourage fatassery policy is a decent one.

[DinoDoc]

I think the basic don't be fatasses or encourage fatassery policy is a decent one.

That's the goal, not the policy.

[snoopy369]

I think the basic don't be fatasses or encourage fatassery policy is a decent one.

If that were the entire policy I'd vote for it... but it's not.

Side note: http://neverseconds.blogspot.co.uk is a pretty interesting take on where this policy might end up taking us. It's from a girl in Scotland who became briefly a hit when her camera was banned from the school (she was taking pics of lunch and posting them online). It was quickly unbanned, and her blog now is huge and involves all sorts of people all over the world. The first month or two is more interesting to me - April I think is when it started - but the recent posts from various other countries are pretty interesting also.

Her story is that in Scotland, they limited significantly the food they were allowed to have, for a while anyway, so that the kids were always hungry, and didn't give them many choices. Sound familiar?

[DaShi]

http://pjmedia.com/blog/wasted-food-...ill-in-action/

So?

[DaShi]

http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2012/09/2...its-leave.html

So?

[Fake Boris]

You can give growing kids too much protein?

I mean, 100% meat or close to would be bad, but in this instance? Too much protein???

Hum yes, you can have too much protein.

[Guynemer]

I could not possibly care less if the kids don't like the options they have for lunch at school, so long as the options themselves are healthy.

If the kids would rather go hungry than eat something they don't like, well, that sounds like a pretty good life lesson to me.

Obviously, there are going to be problems with the policy, as there is with every policy every in the history of human governance.

[Aeson]

The district’s principal, Jim Bolden, said that at the beginning of the year, food service put fresh peaches on the students’ trays, only to helplessly watch them be thrown away by students who didn’t want them:

The feminazis who want to indoctrinate our kids into "eating a peach" are obviously losing to the gay agenda to indoctrinate boys to prefer hot dogs.

[Aeson]

The lunch included one cheese-stuffed bread stick

Again... gays at work

[Kidlicious]

Kids aren't getting any smarter, unfortunately.

[Dinner]

A cute video but this is a much better version of the song.