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#1 calronmoonflower Jun 01, 2011 17:51:40	Article I've been of the opinion for a while, that the revenue that schools collect should be statewide rather than local.
#2 Maxperson Jun 01, 2011 18:11:47	Article I've been of the opinion for a while, that the revenue that schools collect should be statewide rather than local. 1.4 billion a year spread over every public school in the Country is minscule.  If it was supported ONLY by schools in California, it would cost 150k a year per school.  Add in Texas public schools and it drops to $79,400 a year per school.  Now add in all the schools in the other 48 States and the costs are trivial.  I get that the poorer schools can ill afford ANY increase, but even they should be able to come up with it somehow.  Throw a few extra bake sales and other events throughout the year.
#3 lokiare Jun 01, 2011 22:41:02	The main problem is that these schools can buy government subsidized food for way cheaper than they can buy healthy food. If your interested in how this can be solved, check out the "Food Revolution" on Hulu. Some English guy comes to the U.S. and tries to show schools how to make healthy food... I don't know if it got canceled or not, but he had a second season where the administration wouldn't let him into the schools in another area...
#4 bone_naga Jun 02, 2011 10:49:47	Honestly, I hate this health craze that people have going on. I ate school food growing up. Lots of people did. We didn't all have heart attacks and die and we didn't all swell up into giant fatties. Just because something isn't "health food" doesn't mean it's going to kill you. And yes, of course it comes down to money. A lot of schools (particularly inner city ones) need to scrounge every penny they can. Which is why I support the idea of school revenue being collected statewide and then being dispersed based on the number of students.
#5 Cpt_Micha Jun 02, 2011 11:03:38	I want to change schoolfood, but not because 'it's unhealthy'. It either tastes like cardboard, tastes truly awful, or is at best nominally edible. I am sick of this 'healthfood' garbage. "natural product" means nothing. Arsenic is natural, but it's not good for you either. I eat, pastas, ground beef, chicken strips, spare ribs, potatoes, corn, rice. Right now I'm drinking a ginger ale soda. And I bet I am in better shape than most of the Health Nazis. The trick is to not stuff your face everytime you get up, actually excercize to the point that you should probably hit a shower afterwards (ZOMG SWEAT ZOMG ), and to be generally active thorought the day.  This isn't a terribly hard thing to accomplish.
#6 Maxperson Jun 02, 2011 11:18:53	I find it amusing that Conservative lawmakers consider healthy food for kids in schools a luxury. Next thing we'll know is that books and chairs will be a luxury. In fact, public schools should just be four wooden polls and barbed wire. That will save money. Ketchup is a vegetable!!!
#7 Cpt_Micha Jun 02, 2011 11:19:04	I find it amusing that Conservative lawmakers consider healthy food for kids in schools a luxury. Next thing we'll know is that books and chairs will be a luxury. In fact, public schools should just be four wooden polls and barbed wire. That will save money. Well, they pretty much are daycare pens at this point.....
#8 zombie_babies Jun 02, 2011 12:04:17	If they want to require the schools to find more money to spend, wouldn't it make a lot more sense to make them spend it on something actually used to, you know, educate the kids that attend them?  I mean, healthier food is ok an' all, but education is what schools are about - not mandated dietary restrictions.  Let's focus on what's really important here.  The moronic terror over 'unhealthy' food is doing nothing more than distracting from where these poorer schools really fail the kids that attend them.  I'll give ya'all a hint: it ain't in the cafeteria.
#9 homicidal_squirrel Jun 02, 2011 16:29:06	Wait... expensive food is too expensive for poor schools to buy, and conservatives view healthy food for poor school kids a luxury... and this is news worthy how? Let me know when you find a story about conservatives increasing funding for schools, and poor communities being able to afford 7 course meals for lunch for students.
#10 Cpt_Micha Jun 02, 2011 17:46:42	Burn it all down, start it over. It's not like we'd actually be anymore behind seeing as how half of American adults are functionally illiterate anyway.
#11 toastedamphibian Jun 02, 2011 18:52:11	Stop being sexist.
#12 Maxperson Jun 03, 2011 10:24:18	I find it amusing that Conservative lawmakers consider healthy food for kids in schools a luxury. Next thing we'll know is that books and chairs will be a luxury. In fact, public schools should just be four wooden polls and barbed wire. That will save money. Ketchup is a vegetable!!! Next thing you'll say is bologna is meat and brown is a new food group composed of cardboard and gravy. You're probably too young to understand the reference.
#13 lokiare Jun 03, 2011 10:37:38	If they want to require the schools to find more money to spend, wouldn't it make a lot more sense to make them spend it on something actually used to, you know, educate the kids that attend them?  I mean, healthier food is ok an' all, but education is what schools are about - not mandated dietary restrictions.  Let's focus on what's really important here.  The moronic terror over 'unhealthy' food is doing nothing more than distracting from where these poorer schools really fail the kids that attend them.  I'll give ya'all a hint: it ain't in the cafeteria. America has the highest rate of obesity in children in the world. It is also growing. Actually studies have found that children learn more and concentrate better when they eat healthy foods. Their less disruptive too. The main problem is not the amount of money being thrown at the schools (its more than enough). Its how that money is used. They did a study and found that only $65,000 out of $300,000 was reaching each classroom out of alloted money in one state. The rest went to the administration and people doing 'paperwork'. You can check this yourself go to your administrative building of your school and count the number of 'luxury' cars in the parking lot. You might be surprised. Some of these people get paid $100,000 or more per year. All they do is paperwork. If we streamlined the education system and got rid of waste and spending then we could easily free up $100 million dollars across the country. As to healthy food most of it could be grown by the students either as an after school project or as a specific class. They could take turns going out and tending to the 1 acre or more garden. This would cut out a huge cost. When food is grown commercially everyone in the process takes a cut. The farmer sells to a distributor, who sells to individual stores, who sell to individuals. Each one increases the price so they can make a profit. If the students farmed all of their own vegetables the schools would save thousands of dollars...