School Lunch: Preschooler Told Homemade Turkey Sandwich Not Nutritious Enough, Given Nuggets Instead

[WingDinger]

51. Here goes. I will analyze.

""So to meet those requirements, the child was given chicken nuggets. ""

The childs lunch was supplimented by three chicken nuggets, boiled.

""The agent was inspecting the entire class' lunch boxes that day. ""

Maybe even, the school was teaching nutrition. So, THAT ONE DAY, lunches were checked for complete food groups.

""The state's Department of Health and Human Services requires that all lunches served to pre-kindergarten students -- whether from school or home -- meet USDA meal guidelines of one serving each of meat, milk and grain, and two servings of fruit or vegetables.""

Laudable goal. Transparent way to impliment it, controvertial. No budget for those things, an unfunded mandate. So, charge parents, to comply with the laudable goal. Instead, funding for the school lunch program, should be supplimented, to add, at no additional charge, what your sack lunch is missing. And your meal from the cafeteria, also meet those USDA nutritional guidelines.

""It's unclear to state officials why, exactly, the girl's meal was deemed insufficient"

The persons responsible for the guidelines, cant figure out how that lunchlady got it so wrong.

""but Jani Kozlowski, fiscal and statutory policy manager for the Division of Child Development told the Carolina Journal that the meal should have met guidelines.""

Our policy is not responsible for this witch hunt.

"""With a turkey sandwich, that covers your protein, your grain, and if it had cheese on it, that's the dairy," Kozlowski said. "It sounds like the lunch itself would’ve met all of the standard."""

Let me reiterate, that is NOT our policy.

""The struggle to comply with USDA guidelines in school meals is not new. Celebrity chef and TV personality Jamie Oliver spent years trying to remove flavored milk from school cafeterias. The target: glucose.""

That damn limey should mind his own business.

"" While flavored milk met USDA guidelines for dairy, those recommendations ignore the fact that a carton of flavored milk often contained more sugar than a can of soda.""

They need the energy.

""In the first move of its kind in over 15 years, the government last month announced new guidelines to ensure students are given healthier options for school meals. The new standards call for more whole grains and produce as well as less sodium and fat in school meals.""

No really good change, is simple to impliment, on a grand scale. There is a learning curve.

""While the measures mark a step forward from previous years, they still compromise amid push-back from Congress to keep pizza and french fries on the menu -- counting both the tomato paste on pizza and the potatoes that make fries as vegetables. ""

Screw it. Then you make them eat that rabbit food.

"" Even with the researchers' low-cost idea, schools still face costly issues. For school districts to comply with new federal regulations that bring in fresh fruits and vegetables, they have seen a rise in prices,""

Like I said, an unfunded mandate, dumped on undereducated folks, to deal with, or face harsh rhetoric, about they being the enemy.

This is a strawman argument, just like any odd internet spam heart tug story, meant to manipulate you into actions against the scapegoat, or scapegoats. This time, being the lunchladies, that are not paid well, work five days a week, four hours a day, requiring they all have multiple jobs. They have families, and usually have most of their resume, that school or in the school system. They are saddled with perfect upbringing of our children, in the absence of our giving a shit as a society. Or paying for it. Hell, lets have another lottery. That will take care of shit.