No Thanks Michelle Obama: Seven School Districts Drop Lunch Rules
Wyoming’s Sheridan County District One business manager Jeremy Smith says his district dropped out of the National School Lunch Program “because there were just too many complaints,” according to Wyoming Public Media.
“Universally, it was, ‘We are starving. We are hungry. This isn’t enough food for us.’ But we couldn’t blame them, because I looked at that school lunch and said, ‘I wouldn’t eat it either,’” Smith says.
The district saw a 20 percent spike in sales this school year after it dropped the federal rules championed by First Lady Michelle Obama.
The district increased participation, but increased prices, too, to offer bigger portions to growing students.
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