CHESTER COUNTY, Pa. – Whether it is the National School Lunch Program or the Common Core learning standards, the federal government does not seem to know when to stop ‘bettering’ America.

Perhaps even worse, very few local governments are willing to stand up to Washington.

Fortunately, some school districts are pushing back against the National School Lunch Program, the overreach of First Lady Michelle Obama and Washington bureaucrats.

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The Unionville Times reports:

In case you missed it, the Unionville-Chadds Ford School District Board of Education voted last week to withdraw Unionville High School from the National School Lunch Program. While on first blush that might seem like a rash move, it was the exactly correct reaction to an overreach of federal bureaucrats and First Lady Michelle Obama.

It’s a move I hope other school districts in Chester County follow.

Since new, healthier lunch standards went into effect in 2012, Unionville High School’s cafeteria has seen a decline in lunch purchases — and district Food Service Director Marie Wickersham said earlier this month she fears that if the high school follows the new, even more stringent rules for 2014-15, the district’s food service program will go into the red for the first time in decades, as kids “just say no” to lunch.

The high school will still abide by the healthier rules set out for 2012, but only the district’s elementary schools and middle school will adopt the 2014-2015 rules, according to the news site.

Kudos to the school board for acknowledging that high school students would rather drive to a local convenience store and eat a bag of Doritos for lunch instead of eating the costly, federally-mandated food.

More local government bodies and school boards need to stand up and do the same thing when it comes to these top-down mandates our government seems quite fond of. Thankfully, some are.

Michael Rock, a member of the Unionville-Chadds Ford Board of Education, argued later in the meeting that school boards need to become more activist and less accepting of top-down mandates and burdens when they clearly have a negative impact on local schools and taxpayers.

School districts too often implement policies, approved by their board, that negatively affect their students and are part of this top-down mandate approach to education. The federal government should not be able to mandate what a child eats at lunch. It is not really any of their business.