Utah High School Cuts Art Program Funds After $15,000 Fine For Selling Soda

[mandym]

Davis High School in Salt Lake City, Utah, is being forced to cut money from their fine arts programs to make up the cost of the $15,000 Federal fine ($0.75 for each lunch the school serves) for accidentally selling soda during its lunch period.

KUTV reported the issue saying, “School lunch is served for 47 minutes each day, and federal law clearly states no soda can be sold during that time.”

http://www.ijreview.com/2012/05/580...gram-funds-after-15000-fine-for-selling-soda/

 

[mont974x4]

What did you expect would happen when we allow the feds to get so involved in our lives?

 

[carpro]

Ridiculously intrusive government regs.

The school should not pay the fine and take it to court.

I wonder who turned them in.

 

[billwald]

Selling soda in public schools? I guess the LDS has lost control of Utah.

 

[LadyEagle]

This is all part of Michelle Obama's meddling in the school lunch program and a Congress (including RINO Republicans) who went along with it and passed it.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 13, 2011 —The U.S. Department of Agriculture today published a proposed rule to update the nutrition standards for meals served through the National School Lunch and School Breakfast programs as part of the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010, signed into law by President Barack Obama on December 13, 2010. The new proposed meal requirements will raise standards for the first time in fifteen years and will make critical changes to school meals and help improve the health and nutrition of nearly 32 million kids that participate in school meal programs every school day, an important component of First Lady Michelle Obama's Let's Move! initiative to solve the challenge of childhood obesity within a generation.

"The United States is facing an obesity epidemic and the crisis of poor diets threatens the future of our children – and our nation," said Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack. "With many children consuming as many as half their daily calories at school, strengthening nutritional standards is an important step in the Obama administration's effort to combat childhood obesity and improve the health and wellbeing of all our kids."

The proposed changes to school meal standards, which would add more fruits, vegetables, whole grains, fat-free and low-fat milk to school meals, are based on recommendations released in October 2009 by the National Academies' Institute of Medicine (IOM) and presented in their report, School Meals: Building Blocks for Healthy Children. Schools would also be required to limit the levels of saturated fat, sodium, calories, and trans fats in meals. A comparison of the proposed nutrition standards can be viewed here.

The Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act gives schools and communities new tools to meet the challenge of providing more nutritious food including increasing school lunch reimbursements by 6 cents per meal, and increasing technical assistance. School meal programs are a partnership between USDA, State agencies and local schools, and USDA will work with schools and communities to help improve meals so that they are consistent with the Dietary Guidelines for Americans.

"Raising a healthier generation of kids will require hard work and commitment of a host of partners," said Vilsack. "We understand that these improved meal standards may present challenges for some school districts, but the new law provides important new resources, technical assistance and flexibility to help schools raise the bar for our kids."

http://www.fns.usda.gov/cga/pressreleases/2011/0010.htm


More....

Technically called the Healthy Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010, the bill reauthorizes the federal nutrition program, a $4.5-billion measure that expands free school meals for the needy. For the first time, it sets nutritional standards for all food, whether in cafeterias or in school vending machines, and is designed to help fight obesity among children, which has led to an increase in disease, such as diabetes.

http://articles.latimes.com/2010/dec/13/news/la-pn-obamas-food-bill-signing-121310



And the Michelle Obama food is ending up in the lunch room garbage (uneaten) to the tunes of millions of dollars of tax payer dollars per year. This is what happens when the long arm of unelected regulators stretch out their grip under the permissive eye of Congress. More tax dollars wasted.

"It's lunchtime at Van Nuys High School and students stream into the cafeteria to check out the day's fare: black bean burgers, tostada salad, fresh pears and other items on a new healthful menu introduced this year by the Los Angeles Unified School District. But Iraides Renteria and Mayra Gutierrez don't even bother to line up. Iraides said the school food previously made her throw up, and Mayra calls it 'nasty, rotty stuff.' So what do they eat? The juniors pull three bags of Flamin' Hot Cheetos and soda from their backpacks.
'This is our daily lunch,' Iraides says. 'We're eating more junk food now than last year.'

"For many students, L.A. Unified's trailblazing introduction of healthful school lunches has been a flop. Earlier this year, the district got rid of chocolate and strawberry milk, chicken nuggets, corn dogs, nachos and other food high in fat, sugar and sodium. Instead, district chefs concocted such healthful alternatives as vegetarian curries and tamales, quinoa salads and pad Thai noodles. There's just one problem: Many of the meals are being rejected en masse. Participation in the school lunch program has dropped by thousands of students. Principals report massive waste, with unopened milk cartons and uneaten entrees being thrown away. Students are ditching lunch, and some say they're suffering from headaches, stomach pains and even anemia. At many campuses, an underground market for chips, candy, fast-food burgers and other taboo fare is thriving."

http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2...nch_menu_forces_kids_to_find_back_alley_meals



Check this out: http://townhall.com/columnists/mich..._obamas_unsavory_school_lunch_flop/page/full/

 

[Gina B]

How does this have anything to do with Michelle Obama? It was illegal to sell it during meals when I was in high school, and now my own kids are getting ready to graduate. That was long before Obama was in office.

Allowing children access to caffeinated drinks has always been a school/government agency dealing with kids issue in most places to my knowledge, since they are underage and caffeine is a drug with known effects.

 

[LadyEagle]

How does this have anything to do with Michelle Obama? It was illegal to sell it during meals when I was in high school, and now my own kids are getting ready to graduate. That was long before Obama was in office.

Allowing children access to caffeinated drinks has always been a school/government agency dealing with kids issue in most places to my knowledge, since they are underage and caffeine is a drug with known effects.

Never heard of it before. It wasn't when I was in school or my son was in school. Up until recently there were caffeinated drinks in my grandkid's school in the vending machines. Might have been a regional thing, but now it's a federal thing.

<edited> OK, I just checked, this law about turning off the vending machines during lunch isn't MO's fault, it has been a law in the 2000s. My bad.

That doesn't change the fact that she meddled...

 

[preachinjesus]

Just another example of our social destruction. We have no relationship to the vision of our founders as a nation.