Whole grain bread and its discontents... a matter for US children's luc

This all started quite long ago now, but has risen re new interest recently:
There is an article in Slate on proposed changes re school lunches that I can't right now paste here. I will, after I reboot (I hope), but I'll start the thread first.

A somewhat picky eater as a child, I changed over time to much more adventurous, but my progress had bumps. One of the bumps, well into my teens, and quite beyond, was my distaste for whole wheat bread. I'd not heard of whole grain bread, much less whole grain bread with seeds.

It turned out that my not liking any of that was that the whole wheat bread I ever ran into back then was similar to what I think of as the same old "slimyness" as Weber's white bread, or was it Wonder Bread, in the Chicago area in the '50's.
One sunny day, friends introduced me to real breads, and I gradually became a gung ho bread baker myself, bread of many types. So it goes...

So, the fellow, Purdue I think is his name, the guy who will oversee the children's lunch situation, says a lot of Michele Obama's preferences won't change, but some will, as kids will just toss stuff they hate. I get that he might be right re some many kids. Being me now, and not back then, I'm all for healthy food - but I'm wondering if both types of bread can be available..
for gradual change.

Then there's the milk thing - if I read it right, they're to get only 1% fat in milk. Mmm? I take it that is from Michelle's list? I'm a full fat dairy person myself. My brain/body needs a tad of fat. I old, I'm slim, my bp is just swell, no pills/medications except the rare 1/2 benadryl; cholesterol fine. Oh, eyedrops, but that's a decades old need for good reason.

I should add that my best school lunches were from the female cooks at St. Nick's in Evanston. Far as I remember, they were german women with a hefty love of kids and food.


What are your thoughts?