Comments on: Serving Twinkies While Rome Burns http://scienceprogress.org/2009/04/school-food/ Tue, 13 Sep 2011 13:59:48 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Mr L http://scienceprogress.org/2009/04/school-food/comment-page-1/#comment-4940 Mr L Wed, 29 Apr 2009 11:09:16 +0000 http://www.scienceprogress.org/?p=2634#comment-4940 Are you seriously arguing that selling pizza and chocolate milk in the cafeteria is giving kids diabetes? I'd point the finger at the 29% of districts that reduced athletics in the last 10 years, but that's just me. Also, the nation’s school boards did not 'decry national nutritional standards for what can be served to students in school'. As the testimony repeatedly points out, there's already national nutritional standards - VOLUNTARY ones. It's the mandatory vs. voluntary question that's the sticking point. Considering the experience with NCLB, it's kind of odd to hear someone come out in FAVOR of federal mandates. Are you seriously arguing that selling pizza and chocolate milk in the cafeteria is giving kids diabetes? I’d point the finger at the 29% of districts that reduced athletics in the last 10 years, but that’s just me.

Also, the nation’s school boards did not ‘decry national nutritional standards for what can be served to students in school’. As the testimony repeatedly points out, there’s already national nutritional standards – VOLUNTARY ones. It’s the mandatory vs. voluntary question that’s the sticking point. Considering the experience with NCLB, it’s kind of odd to hear someone come out in FAVOR of federal mandates.

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