Michelle Obama’s signature 2010 child nutrition legislation is running into a stumbling block in a school district in upstate New York: reality...
In the Niskayuna cafeterias, the program isn’t working out. In short, kids aren’t eating the grub. At elementary schools, for example, students are buying lunch about half as often as they did last year.
“The kids just don’t like what’s being served this year,” Suzanne Wixom, director of the school district’s food services, told WNYT.
“We have kids who are hungry and that’s what we’re here for,” she added. “They can’t learn if they’re hungry.”
Wixom added that students have frequently just tossed food they don’t want to eat into the garbage...
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