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Old 03-28-2010, 09:32 AM   #20
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Originally Posted by Droford View Post
The only thing wrong with the USDA School lunch program is that theres a USDA School Lunch Program. It is so ingrained in the way school districts operate their cafeterias that its almost impossible to change it without there being excessive costs involved that given current budget constraints will make it impossible to achieve.

http://www.grist.org/article/can-mic...r-school-food/

This is doomed to fail no matter how it gets played. Schools can upgrade, spend more for "healthy" food, hire more experienced people to cook it and the only ones that will eat it are the ones that are on free/reduced lunch (Read low income group) because the rest of the kids will brown bag their lunch if they can't get pizza and other stuff.
Schools know this now which is why they offer the foods that they do now to compensate for the hit they take in offering the subsidized meals that are required to meet dietary guidelines for free and reduced lunches.



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