School Lunch Prices

Based on every conceivable complaint, schools systems nationwide are planning to raise the price of breakfast and lunch by as much as $1. According to this report, schools systems have a variety of specific reasons, but they all share in having to increase prices due to the political push to make food healthier in some group's opinion. For example, it was probably some nanny-state socialist cluster-thinkers in Texas who decided to impose their dislike for french fries on the entire state by having standards mandating restrictions on fried food. Consequently, schools are forced to scrap deep fat fryers and buy expensive new equipment.

Personally, I think that school lunch programs have taken the path of every other bungling government bureaucracy and are achieving noteworthiness for inefficiency. Part of the reason is that the lunch programs are an easy target for political special interests. Rest assured that politicos from Wisconsin are at the forefront in trying to get school systems to buy more milk, cheese, butter, and ice cream. By the same token, the PETA crowd continually lobbies to have school lunch menus offer less food and more leaves and grasses.