Beside to much money. They do not have enough food for all the kids to eat. My son is in high school. By the time he gets to his lunch there is no food except salad.

My girls brown bag it now. Too expensive and they were coming home starving. Just not right.

Here's the problem with the one size fits all Government control. My kids are in great shape and participate in mutiple sports both in and out of school, yet they are the ones being penalized and undernurished with this program. How about this, give out different passes for the obese kids that limits there choices and leave the heathly kids alone.

Wow Fred. What a way to make overweight kids feel even worse about themselves.

why is encouraging and teaching kids to make healthy food choices a penalty?
all three of my graduates brown bagged it every day because they didn't like the unhealthy food choices and long lines....guess they weren't into soda, pizza and fries.

Here's a suggestion: have members of the BOE and the Superintendent's office randomly have one lunch a month with students in their schools. That's 9 members of BOE, plus anyone in the Wade building who makes lunch decisions, if they split this up it is easily achievable. They need to eat the same food the kids eat. (And if they aren't already doing so, they should be visiting lunch rooms).

In terms of price, it is expensive - but so are ingredients and personnel. I dislike that parents have to pay a fee to pay using a credit card on the on-line payment system. This should be covered in the food service provider's overhead!

It is easy for parents to criticize, but until we've actually eaten in a cafeteria and seen what goes on, I think we should reserve a bit of judgment.

The media should also be careful when picking this topic to discuss. Every report I've read/heard has had lots of sweeping generalizations.

I sent my kids with lunch today. I think comparing in terms of calories and price (I sent turkey sandwich on white bread, chips, an apple and vanilla milk) it was a wash. I too could have sent a healthier lunch. But would they have eaten it? The government - and even I can't make them!

Here's an example of a lunch served last week at the middle school. It was "Breakfast for lunch". The kids got one piece of french toast and some canned fruit. How is this enough or appropriate to energize our kids? AND it cost $2.55! I understand the cost of food has increased hence the rise in lunch prices, but if the kids are receiving less and less food, then don't increase the price (or just give them a full serving!)

Of course they are still hungry, they are probably going through withdraw from eating all that processed, empty calorie, high in sugar junk. If the kids won’t chose what’s healthy or not and the parents not teaching it. Well then don’t let the junk food be an option and the schools can be one less place parents of fat kids can blame.

Fred,
I am happy to see that I am not the only one who thinks studens in good shape should not be punished. For example last week when I was getting lunch I noticed that they got rid of the pizza and replaced it with a small excuse for a ham sandwich.
I have football after school and that pos left me sol. I had major hunger pains and I am not able to fully perform on a diet set for a person who lives a seditary life style. Most people are blind to the fact that the school lables us all as over weight and the only tasks we accomplish is getting a kill streak on mw3. The parents of these fatt kids need to help us solve this problem. Just think that once johnny lardo gets home he will raid the pantry and take in even more calories than if the school just gave us a good meal!

These new regulations are geared to support a fallacy; the fewer calories that students receive through their school lunches are going to have a VERY small impact on obesity. Not only are obese kids going to continue to keep their excessive calorie intake, but they're going to INCREASE it to make up for the lack of proteins they're receiving at school. This situation is easily comparable to gun laws or any other national conflict right now. People need a change of heart/mind, not new laws and regulations. We need more classes to educate students of proper, nutritional diets. We need more classes that will help guide them in their diet change; changing your diet is a life-style change.

Also, as an 11th-grader at University High School, Spokane, Washington, I can say from personal experience that, for how much food I'm getting, the price is WAY too high. At my school, we are limited to 4 items (two of them being small cups of fruit and the other milk [mandatory]). How much does this cost? $3.00. It's no wonder kids are getting fat; they could buy 15 packets of Top Ramen with $3.00. Regardless of whether or not they change these calorie regulations, the price NEEDS to be dropped.