Tag: School Lunch

Making Public School Meals Safer?

February 8, 2025 John Klar

As the MAHA movement of the Trump-Kennedy alliance takes shape post-election, one area for potential bipartisan progress is improving the healthfulness of school lunches that feed 30 million US children each school day. As with many complex challenges, the Safe School Meals Act awaiting consideration in 2025 elicits broad agreement on desired ends but confronts … Read more

So Kids, What Did We Learn From This Week’s House Session (4/11/24)?

April 12, 2024April 12, 2024 Judy Aron

We learned that one of the most outstanding renditions of the national anthem was sung by the Seacoast Men of Harmony and that the Scottish Arts Center entertained us for Tartan Day with bagpipes and fiddle music. It was superb.

Biden Stole “Their” Lunch Money – A Federal Judge Just Gave it Back

July 18, 2022 Steve MacDonald

A few months back, the Biden Administration announced its intent to extend a gender-bender-related US Supreme Court ruling on Title VII to Title IX. Anyone who refused to bow to the new rule would lose lunch money for poor kids. A Federal Judge just said, give it back.

Governor Groomer (a/k/a Sun-King Sununu) Supports Biden’s LGBT Mandates

June 16, 2022 Ed Mosca

This: “A new Biden administration rule would prevent students from receiving federal funding for public school lunches if their district didn’t comply with LGBT mandates.”

No Federal Lunch Money If Your School Doesn’t Transgederize Girl’s Safe Spaces

May 28, 2022 Steve MacDonald

The Bidenistas have decided. If you refuse to allow boys into girls’ bathrooms or locker rooms, then no federal lunch money to feed poor kids. So, is this another one of those “choices” my body things, like – you will take the experimental pharmaceutical or else?

A good lunch at Dover public schools cold pizza six fries and a tangerine

Dover Public School “Offering” Makes Prison Food Look Like 5 Star Fare

March 19, 2022March 18, 2022 Steve MacDonald

For the record, I have no idea what prison food looks like but I did check the internet so I think I’m on solid ground.

The Left’s War on Education

September 26, 2018January 12, 2013 Steve MacDonald

The left’s objection to even one tax dollar finding its way into the hands of a church is legion. It is (apparently) a matter of even greater concern that we might engage in tax policy that accidentally encourages others–by allowing them to keep more of their own money–to give some of it to a religious group.

Such is the current quandary, pressed into the arms of the New Hampshire Superior court judiciary; if a business owner is incentivized by the state to give their own money for a k-12scholarship to a non-profit that manages such scholarships, and some kid or their parents just happens to use their qualified scholarship award at a school run by a religious group, has the state shown an establishment of religion?

S.3307 The Healthy Hunger Free Kids Act…Guess Who Voted for It?

September 26, 2018September 25, 2012 Steve MacDonald

Michelle Obama Minister of crappy public school lunches — Eat that spinach…Eat it!

S.3307 (2010) is the legislation that empowered the Feds to regulate local school lunches. It is the regulation that is driving up the cost of school lunches by law because the law demands parity of price regardless of cost. It is the law that limits the number of calories and other nutritional elements to a national standard, regardless of a student’s size or activity level. It is the law that limits menu choices to those defined by the central government, choices kids are rejecting in large numbers, resulting in food being wasted. (Food that costs more because of the law.)

Kids are hungry. High School Athletes are under-nourished. They don’t like or want the food being forced on them. Black markets are forming to fill the need. And food is being wasted.

Let’s face it, Hungry kids do not make good students. This law is a turd sandwich.

So who among the New Hampshire Delegation voted for this crappy central planning nightmare? How about all of them.

Federal Mandate Drives Up School Lunch Prices in Merrimack NH

September 26, 2018July 20, 2012 Steve MacDonald

Who says there is no such thing as a free lunch? Well it wont be just Merrimack, New Hampshire. The Healthy Hunger Free Kids Act of 2010 Federal mandate essentially implemented price controls everywhere School lunch is served to fund free lunch, based on federal guidelines, decided on for everyone, by a few hundred Democrats, in Washington DC, in the historically significant later part of 2010.

The Democrat Congress put the USDA on point for this program, and empowered them to manage the new federal programs under the premise that it can eliminate hunger and improve nutrition. But at the end of the day this is little more than Federal meddling, income redistribution (again), and using the promise of federal grants and support to turn your public school lunch program into a taxpayer powered soup kitchen.

And not just any soup kitchen. A soup kitchen that has to jump through hoops if it wants to please the Federal Bureaucrats empowered to decide who is worthy of what handouts and if local taxpayers must pony up to meet the federal requirements.

One of those requirements is that schools start charging students (parents) more for each lunch purchased (during a recession), to satisfy the mandated price defined by the legislation, regardless of how much the lunch actually costs. Yes, the Feds are telling local school districts across the Fruited Plain what they must charge for a school lunch; whatever cost reimbursement amount the feds are willing to provide for a free lunch, regardless of what it costs us to sell a lunch to a paying student.