If these lowly commoners only knew how much smarter Mooch is than them.

Glendale — Nicolet High School will be dropping out of the national school lunch program this school year because the required healthy food options didn’t win over students.

Healthy foods are required under the Healthy Hunger-Free Kids Act, which will be fully implemented this year. But Vicky Hanson, the district’s food service director, said foods like black beans, kale and whole grains just end up in the trash at the end of the lunch hour.

“We put it out, but they just don’t take it,” she said. “It’s always in the trash.”

As a result, the Nicolet High School District lost $10,000 last year due to the increased cost of preparing healthy foods that were then thrown away by high school students, said Jeff Dellutri, Nicolet’s business manager. About 15 percent of the school’s population participates in the free or reduced-price lunch program, but the remaining 85 percent of students prefer the a la carte program, which is not allowed under the National School Lunch Program.

For the district to lose the a la carte program would lead to an even more dramatic loss in hot lunch sales, Dellutri said.

“We thought it would be a financial disaster for us this year with the full implementation (of the Healthy Hunger-Free Kids Act),” Dellutri said at a School Board meeting Monday, July 28.