Not exactly…those things are available for kids to purchase. Teachers and administrators aren’t forcing junk down your relative’s gullet; she’s choosing to consume it voluntarily. (Are her parents sending a bag of vegetables with her for lunch instead of giving her money to purchase food? Well, why not?)

My rural high school (which was a holding pen with no actual education going on, so I’m in complete agreement with “if you want them to learn anything, don’t send them to public school”) didn’t have snack machines and followed the state and federal hot-lunch guidelines–no choices except whole/2%/skim milk, soda machine unavailable during school hours–so we brown-bagged chips, candy, and soda. Some kids got money from their parents, some had part-time jobs…I baked cookies for band bus trips because my parents wouldn’t drive me into town to buy crap, but they always had ingredients in the larder and encouraged their daughters to cook.

Which is my point–it’s a parent problem. Schools make crap available because parents give kids money to buy it. And if parents know and don’t care what their kids are eating, what business is it of Michelle Obama’s, again? I understand that forcing her beliefs (and from the look of her, not her lifestyle) on other people provides her with a thrill, but I don’t understand why people submit so readily.