BATAVIA, Ill. – A suburban Chicago school district is flirting with the idea of dropping out of the National School Lunch Program to get out from under food rules championed by first lady Michelle Obama.

The Batavia school board is expected to discuss the idea in more detail June 23 after the issue was raised during a recent meeting. Board members approved a new contract with food service company Quest on Tuesday, and learned from Quest officials that students aren’t getting enough food, the Daily Herald reports.

“Quest representatives said the number of federally reimbursed meals at the high school has declined because students are displeased with a lack of choice of what to eat and with restrictions on portion sizes, particularly that of protein items,” according to the news site.

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“If the high school drops out of the program, it could serve larger lunches and would not be subject to the nutrition restrictions that were adopted as part of the 2010 Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act. The district would still offer free and reduced-priced lunches for needy children at all schools.”

Quest officials also said that doing away with Michelle O’s lunch restrictions on calories, fat, sugar, sodium, whole wheat, and other nutritional components would boost lunch revenues by about $100,000, district finance director Kris Monn said.

Several area school districts have already dropped out.

“Geneva schools do not participate in the national program at all, while St. Charles District 303 participates except at the two high schools,” according to the Daily Herald.

Hundreds of schools across the country have given up on trying to serve students government-approved lunches and school food since the Michelle Obama-inspired rules went into effect in 2012. Just this week Greenwich Public Schools in Connecticut and the Hempfield school district in Pennsylvania opted their high schools out of National School Lunch Program because students don’t like what the government is serving.

“We are seeing our lunch and breakfast counts go down,” Hempfield food services director Brian Rathgeb told the school board, according to Lancaster Online.

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Momentum against the federal regulations seem to be gaining steam, for a wide variety of reasons, from increased food costs to the loss of local control over nutrition decisions to concerns about massive food waste tied to the government’s requirement that all students take a fruit or vegetable, whether or not they eat it.

The bland school food offerings dictated by the federal nutrition standards have convinced at least 1.2 million students to bring their lunches from home, according to a Government Accountability Office report.

U.S. Reps. Kristi Noem of Iowa and Vicky Hartzler of Missouri, a former high school nutritionist, recently introduced a bill to peel back some of the tightened federal school food restrictions, despite Michelle Obama’s vow to fight for her pet project “until the bitter end.”

The legislation, known as the Reducing Federal Mandates on School Lunch Act, is supported by the National School Board Association and the School Superintendents Association, the Buffalo Reflex reports.

“As a parent and someone who taught nutritional science for 11 years, I want nothing more than for our kids to grow up healthy,” Hartzler said.

“Unfortunately, the rules being pushed on our schools are inhibiting that. What we are seeing is wasted food, soaring costs and declining participation. These regulations have caused Columbia Public Schools to lose over $2 million over the last two years. According to its superintendent, they may have to look at cutting staff and faculty jobs to cover the losses.”