{"id":15968,"date":"2012-09-27T18:47:21","date_gmt":"2012-09-27T22:47:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=15968"},"modified":"2012-09-28T09:41:47","modified_gmt":"2012-09-28T13:41:47","slug":"kansas-students-provide-a-hopeful-sign-about-the-next-generations-commitment-to-liberty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/15968\/kansas-students-provide-a-hopeful-sign-about-the-next-generations-commitment-to-liberty\/","title":{"rendered":"Kansas Students Provide a Hopeful Sign About the Next Generation’s Commitment to Liberty"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here’s a story that will restore your faith in the next generation — and the power of civil society.<\/p>\n

Students and teachers throughout the nation are bridling at school nutritional requirements imposed by the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act, a piece of legislation passed by Congress and signed into law by President Obama in 2010 (it barely merits mentioning that the bill’s head cheerleader was First Lady Michelle Obama<\/a>). So what could possibly go wrong with some well-intentioned efforts at keeping kids fit? Well, plenty. Here’s Suzanne Perez Tobias, writing for the Wichita Eagle<\/em><\/a>:<\/p>\n

The major sticking point: a new federal rule that sets calorie maximums for school lunches \u2014 650 calories for elementary-schoolers, 700 for middle-schoolers and 850 for high-schoolers.<\/p>\n

Protesters in Kansas and elsewhere say 850 calories isn\u2019t enough for some high-schoolers, particularly athletes who can burn calories by the thousands.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The students’ reaction? Well, at one Kansas school they created a nice little bit of satire set to the tune of the hit song “We Are Young” — and so far it’s generated more than half a million views. Watch and try not to admire the pluck:<\/p>\n

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Here’s a story that will restore your faith in the next generation — and the power of civil society. Students and teachers throughout the nation are bridling at school nutritional requirements imposed by the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act, a piece of legislation passed by Congress and signed into law by President Obama in 2010 (it […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[143,602,3838,835,2110,3255],"class_list":["post-15968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-barack-obama","tag-big-government","tag-healthy-hunger-free-kids-act","tag-michelle-obama","tag-nutrition","tag-school-lunch"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15968"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15968\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15972,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15968\/revisions\/15972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}