What Michelle Obama Forced a School to Do... Made Them Defy Her Instead

What Michelle Obama Forced a School to Do... Made Them Defy Her Instead

What Michelle Obama Forced a School to Do… Made Them Defy Her Instead

A school district in Florida is speaking out about the latest nutritional standards and school food restrictions being imposed on them by the federal government, saying it is causing them to lose money every day. (H/T EAGNews)
Pasco County Schools, located just north of the Tampa area, say that new “smart snack” rules are causing them to lose up to $1,300 per day in sales revenue.  These snack rules are just the latest in a string of regulations promulgated by the Michelle Obama-backed Healthy, Hunger Free Kids Act, which implemented strict nutritional standards on school lunch programs.
“This is federal overreach at its worst,” school board member Joanne Hurley said.
School districts across the country are rebelling against Michelle Obama’s lunch rules, as they are losing money and watching kids throw away the uneaten, unappetizing lunches.
These new rules, especially the ones pertaining to snacks, have forced schools to abandon popular fundraisers for students like bake sales, or selling candy bars, leaving them with much less profitable alternatives to raise money.
The calorie count limit has also forced schools to scale back and limit how much food students can eat, as well as forced them to drop popular items off of a la carte menus.  For example, a popular 6-inch “build it yourself” sub sandwich option has been scaled down to a 3-inch sandwich now, to keep under the calorie count.
“This is absurdity,” Pasco County school board chairwoman Alison Crumbley said. “It is unbelievable.”
It should be noted that federal funding for schools has been tied to the lunch program, meaning that schools often are forced to choose between opting-out of the program and losing federal funds, or staying in the program and losing students and revenue.
These school lunch standards are the quintessential example of federal overreach. Unelected figureheads and nameless bureaucrats in D.C. have no idea how things work in the real world and have no business interfering in how schools choose to feed their students.  That decision should be left up to school districts and parents.
Thankfully, Republicans in Congress are working on legislation to roll back some of the standards and allow schools a little more flexibility in how they implement them.
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