MARIETTA, Ga. – Michelle Obama’s school snack rules have claimed another victim. This time it’s a coffee cart special education students use to learn socialization skills.

The rules championed by the First Lady strictly regulate the types of snacks that can be sold during the school day.

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The Marietta Daily Journal reports:

The special education students sold coffee and food such as muffins to teachers and students every morning last year, but [Principal Leigh] Colburn said the calorie counts of those items fall outside the new regulations because they’re more than 200 calories, which is the limit for a snack sold outside of lunch. …

The cart was operated and stocked by the 16 students in the special education program, but since August, the coffee cart has been locked in a closet because the students can’t sell to other students, Colburn said.

“That was the way (special education) kids interacted with (other) kids. It’s a big part of who (the special education students) were. They were learning to take orders, to make change, to make coffee, but mostly they were communicating with kids and the kids were communicating back,” the principal says, according to the newspaper.

“The (special education) kids would greet customers, take orders and prepare the items,” special education teacher Dale Gibson says. “The general education kids would call them by name, and they looked forward to seeing our kids come and if they didn’t see them for a day, they would ask about them.”

“One thing I know she really enjoys about it is getting her out and about within the school, just getting them integrated with the rest of the school and just interacting with other typical kids,” parent Anna Thielemann says of her daughter.

Georgia has been one of the few states to buck the federal dictates, but even that apparently wasn’t enough to save something that helped special education students be a part of the school community. The state school board voted 9-1 last month to exempt its schools from the snack regulations.

The Marietta school board has previously denounced the federal rules, saying they’re helping to make school a “joyless experience.”

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“I think when you’re talking about high school and you’re talking about sales that happen outside of the cafeteria … with 16-,17-, 18-, 19-year-old kids, they’re perfectly capable of making these kinds of decisions for themselves,” Principal Colburn said at the time.