In your own words you told us you provided a good amount of sugary unhealthy snacks "including cookies, cupcakes, juice, candy, and other things", and avoided the first question asked of:
Are you contributing to childhood obesity by providing sugary treats for students and the integrity of the school program with these sugary treats? You're fiercely defending the new program, yet are undermining it as the same time.
Thank you for answering the second portion of the question.
Here's the complete GAO report
http://www.gao.gov/assets/670/660427.pdf
If the students don't like the food, they aren't going to buy it and that is what districts are showing. Schools don't have to wait for the students to adjust to the food, they can opt out and create their own healthy menus. Who are you quoting?
That's your opinion, as your family grows up and enters middle school you might have a change of sympathy level when it concerns your own.
Schools have lost anywhere between $30,000 to $200,000, so the amount varies as does the sizes of the school districts and the locations. Many articles on this topic -
Under the school lunch program regulations, Petfalski said, the district's food service was projected to be headed toward a
$54,000 deficit. By opting out — and presumably selling more food — he expects about a $7,100 surplus.
Some districts balk at latest serving of school lunch rules
Food sales declined at all five BH-BL schools during 2012-13, and even with reimbursement from the National School
Lunch Program, the district's lunch program ended the 2012-13 school year roughly
$100,000 in debt — more than any
previous year.
Local school districts opt out of federal lunch program - Times Union
"Some of the stuff we had to offer, they wouldn't eat," said Catlin, Ill., Superintendent Gary Lewis, whose district saw a
10 to 12 percent drop in lunch sales, translating to
$30,000 lost under
the program last year.
In upstate New York, a few districts have quit the program, including the Schenectady-area Burnt Hills Ballston Lake system,
whose five lunchrooms ended the year
$100,000 in the red.
Near Albany, Voorheesville Superintendent Teresa Thayer Snyder said her district
lost $30,000 in the first three months.
Some schools opt out of gov't-subsidized lunch program with healthier menu - CBS News
The Douglas County School District's board approved a resolution last week allowing the district's nine high schools to opt out of the
National School Lunch Program - the district expects a
loss of $167,000.
Douglas County high schools opt out of federal lunch program - The Denver Post
“We watch children every day walk past the cash register and then throw away things that we are forced, have forced them to take essentially, as a result of the federal requirements for lunches,” said Gene Kirchner, the superintendent of Fort Thomas Independent Schools.
His district will
lose approximately $200,000 this school year and $260,000 in future years by opting out of the federal program, but he believes it’s worth it.
NKY superintendent: School lunch rules good idea gone too far | Local News - WLWT Home
And many more links for you to read
Schools losing money on lunch program
Where are the stats?