http://eagnews.org/mt-students-celebrate-as-school-drops-michelle-os-lunch-rules/
Montana’s Bozeman High School is proving schools can serve students
nutritious meals they’ll love without Michelle Obama’s guiding hand.
Last year, Bozeman school board members
voted 5-3 to pull the high school out of the National School Lunch
Program because federal regulations on calories, fat, sugar, sodium,
whole grains and other nutritional elements championed by the first lady
were driving students off campus for lunch, the Bozeman Daily Chronicle reports.
Instead of forking over their lunch money on the government-mandated
goods, students instead opted to visit local fast food restaurants and
gobble down gas station fare – severely impacting the district’s food
service budget.
School officials realized it was financially advantageous to forgo
$117,000 in federal food subsidies tied to the National School Lunch
Program to draw students back into the cafeteria, and it seems they were
correct.
“We’re off to a good start,” Bob Burrows, Bozeman’s food service
director, told board members Monday, according to the news site.
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