No one who has ever seen me, let alone seen me in front of a plate of pasta, would call me a diet imam. But I'm not certain I get Jack's point. That it is bad for schools to decide what food and drink the kids should have at school? Sorry, can't go along with you on that. Rather, I would say that the problem is we DON'T make any of those kind of decisions, leaving them to the state education department or other faceless bureaucrats. Since most crunchy cons don't even send their kids to public schools, this really isn't an issue on their horizon, I wouldn't think. My daughter's school doesn't even serve lunch — kids have to bring their own.
I agree, however, that it is a very bad thing for our public institutions to go along with every fad that comes along — from John Dewey's educational theories to health nazi views on food. The crunchy thing? Well, I actually might send my kids to a public school if it were a small one based in our neighborhood and run by the locals. And "running it" would include control over the food served.
