TYLER, Texas – Many teachers aren’t happy with how the new federal school snack rules have impacted their classrooms.

Texas has banned birthday cakes and candy in the classroom after the rules championed by First Lady Michelle Obama went into effect July 1.

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“Nearly every teacher” at Tyler’s Bonner Elementary School are turning their noses up at the new rules, according to KLTV.

“Ridiculous,” Debbie Oliver, a 5th grade teacher, says. “To me, it might be saying, let’s not have any kind of fun in school anymore.”

Oliver adds, “It would be one thing if teachers were constantly bombarding the kids with treats and candy and cokes and stuff like that, but that’s not realistic. That’s not even happening.”

“These are very strict,” Camille Moore, a bilingual kindergarten teacher, tells the news station. “To me, food is part of being a family.”

While the rules are supposedly designed to curb childhood obesity, the teachers think they’re missing their mark.

“A lot of us are obese. That’s true,” Moore said. “But I don’t think we’re getting obese in the classroom.”

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Meanwhile, the lunch rules aren’t going over much better in Michigan’s Pinckney school district, which has seen a dramatic drop in school lunch purchases.

“It’s frustrating because we want to serve these kids, but there are less students in the lunch line,” Linda Moskalik, the district’s assistant superintendent of finances and operations, tells the Daily Press & Argus.

Before the “healthy” rules were implemented, food sales at Pinckney during the 2011-2012 school year were roughly $400,443.

The next school year, the district’s lunch sales dropped to $377,200, or 5.8 percent. During the 2013-2014 school year, they dropped an another 4 percent, according to the paper.

In order to receive the federal reimbursements, schools are required to give students the prescribed servings of fruits and vegetables.

“As soon as they leave the lunch line, they will throw the food right in the garbage, which is a waste of food,” Moskalik says.

While proponents of the healthy rules are urging more fresh-cooked meals, schools are relying on pre-packaged frozen servings, so as to not run afoul of the strict portion requirements.

“I have a particular thing with frozen foods, and I kind of feel like some of the lunch foods taste like they’re frozen,” Lewis Tate, an eighth-grader at Charlottesville, Virginia’s Buford Middle School, tells Charlottesville Tomorrow. “One of the reasons I pack my lunch so often is because if I don’t know where my food came from I don’t like eating it.”

“Most of the food is just defrosted,” adds Maggie Vidal, a sophomore at Western Albemarle High School.

School employees, however, are undeterred.

“If you can get the children in the elementary schools to start eating like this, it’s going to follow them through,” Sandra Vazquez, a Charlotteville school lunch employee tells the news site.