Sentences with phrase «subsidized meal line»

In my district, someone in my food services department described how kids who couldn't partake in a la carte were getting their photos taken by cell phone in the «uncool» subsidized meal line to shame them, and some of these kids would rather go hungry than be seen standing in that line.

In addition, this legislation would give the USDA for the first time authority to remove all non-nutritious foods from schools, meaning not just in the subsidized meal line but in vending machines, snack bars, school stores and a la carte lines.

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Moreover, not only does a la carte junk food pose a nutritional issue, it inadvertently creates a civil rights issue when only kids with money in their pockets can get the «cool food,» and needy kids are afraid to stand in line for the federally subsidized meal lest their pictures be snapped on cell phones and posted on Facebook to shame them for their lower economic status.

I've already written about the way such a system creates a real sense of «haves» and «have nots,» such that hungry kids on free / reduced lunch sometimes forgo a meal entirely rather than be seen in the «uncool» subsidized lunch line.

In an effort to stem high childhood obesity levels, the new guidelines set limits on calories and salt, and they phase in more whole grains in federally subsidized meals served in schools» main lunch line.