I love milk! I drink atLEAST 8 glasses a day...what can I say? I'm addicted. If stores raise the price to a major chunk of change, then my mom won't buy it anymore an I'll die. It's worth the price to me, but not to my mom's paycheck.

and the candy issue not to bad it ranges from a 10 cent fortune cookie to i think a 95 cent ice cream which is really good.

At my school it is only 9 cents for milk. Then again they probably make up for it in the over priced and cold french wait sry freedom fries(lol how ridculous (is that how u spell it nvm)).
P.S. Our freedom fries are 1.10 and a hamburger oh get this it is a 1.15 for a piece of half the size of the bun so u are eating bread for a 1.15.

I think it is ridiculous to raise the price. I mean, yeah, it should be at least $.30 but it should stay that way. Especially because people are used to that. And I mean, what if somebody really wants milk but they can't afford it? I guess that the milk companys aren't too worried about people, just their money. This problem hasn't affected my school yet because our milk is free until we want to buy extras after lunch and then it is only $.30, but if this happened at my school I would defenitly fight for my rights.

I totally agree with the person who said this statement because candy and junk food cost less and with milk costing more no kids are giong to want to buy it when they can get more candy for less the price.

My school has the free and reduced lunches too. But for people like me who's parents just give them money every few days to buy lunch it would just be cheaper to go to the machines and buy a bag of Doritos and a Dr. Pepper and save the money. I mean that would be half the price. I'm sorry, but school lunches have gotten ridiculously expensive. It's crazy how much our schools want us to pay for something that we are almost required to eat.

my school has like half price or free lunches for student with little or no income, they just have to fill out an application. your school probably has this too but you just dont know about it... and if for some strange reason they dont then THAT'S what you need to be fighting for.

and what some of you said about candy fanatics is true... the kids who are going to buy candy are the same ones who were buying it in the first place. i'm in high school so maybe it's different but alot of kids just get the picture that they need to eat healthier foods to stop the rumbling in their tummy. plus parents can always write checks to make sure the money goes to the school's lunches

i think milk is worth its price! i love it! i could not live with out it!
Danielle

I dounbt a lot of kids would steal money just to get sweets. That is just dumb.

i agree. Most kids would buy sweets even if the price was raised. sweets taste so good that kids will still buy them no matter what the cost. but i think we shouldn't raise the prices on sweets because kids love sweets so much that they might run out of there money and steal the money from there parents.

Sooner or later every price goes up. But 2.50 is high. COuld'nt they lower it anywhere else?

i don't buy milk from school. can't drink it from a carton. plastic or glass is fine, just not the cardboard.

why couldn't they stop selling the sweets at your school?

some schools just want all the cash!!!

Sportsgurlie, it's just not that simple.

And it's important to know about current events, especially Bush's $150 billion farm bill he signed. It basically gives money to rich "farmers," thereby forcing the little guy who didn't get money to start raising his prices.

That's a big thing in the free trade stuff. You cannot have "Free trade" if your competition is being subsidized.

Look at grocery stores around you - compare prices from say, two, three years ago with the prices now.

How can a small, 300-acre wheat farmer compete against tons of 3,000-acre farmers getting paid by the government? You can't, so to offest those costs the 3,000-acre farmers get paid, you have to jack YOUR prices up on your customers, hence students paying more for their lunches.

It's all economics. Just gotta grasp it to understand it.

I don't drink milk. hmm.

Why can't they just change milk manufactures or whatever?

Not a big deal. Lunch at my school is 2.75 a day and 2.20 a day if you buy the whole week. WE get a sandwich or pizza or something, chips or ice cream, and either coke, milk or some other drink. Well, I go to private school and a lot of kids buy their lunch. I used to, but I don't anymore. They just raised the price from 2.50 about 2 years ago and it seems like more kids are buying lunch now.