KENNETT SQUARE, Pa. – There’s a mini-rebellion brewing in school cafeterias over the stringent new lunch rules that are championed by First Lady Michelle Obama.

Students started this uprising in the last few years by simply refusing to eat the federally mandated school lunch offerings that contain reduced calories, sugar, sodium and fat – you know, the stuff that gives food its taste.

Now school boards are also pushing pack against D.C.’s school lunch police.

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The latest to do so is Pennsylvania’s Unionville-Chadds Ford School District.

Philly.com reports Unionville-Chadds Ford school leaders are opting their high school students out of the National School Lunch Program, beginning next fall.

Officials said the new federal lunch rules for the 2014-15 school year – which place strict limits on sodium and require all grains to be “whole-grain rich” – will drive down food sales so dramatically that complying with the D.C. mandate doesn’t make financial sense.

The news site notes the district has already experienced a decline “in the number of students buying lunch at school, from 32 percent in 2011 to 25 percent last school year.”

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“The district calculated that under the new guidelines, its revenue would decrease from $2.32 per high school student per day to $1.73, since the students would be buying fewer items.

“That represented ‘a significant financial impact on the food-service operation,’ said Marie Wickersham, the district’s supervisor of food services.

“By withdrawing the high schoolers, the district would lose about $38,000 in federal money, Wickersham said, but would more than make up for it in lunchtime revenue.”

The district’s high school students will no longer be able to receive free or reduced lunches through the National School Lunch Program. However, it appears that Unionville-Chadds Ford leaders will continue serving the free meals and will use the revenue generated through higher lunch sales to cover those expenses.

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Officials said their elementary and middle school students will still participate in the federal government’s school lunch program, but noted that high schoolers are old enough to make their own eating decisions.

“It’s our responsibility to teach these kids how to function in the real world,” said Wickersham, the food service director.

What refreshing common sense.

Unionville-Chadds Ford school board member Michael Rock explained why he supported the move at the board’s June 16 meeting.

“I have thought for a long time that we are passive recipients of everything that gets imposed on us from the outside,” Rock said.

Let’s hope the courage shown by Rock and his fellow board members will inspire other school leaders to stand up to our federal overlords – the busybodies who want to micromanage Americans’ lives – and tell them, “Enough!”