Explain more how you think he was correct?
Ashcroft is not someone I like or agree with often. However, his statement was intended to promote the idea that America has been, as a whole, so well off for so long that we have taken things for granted. Security, defense, patriotic support of your country. These things do not come from just waving flags and shopping, "Or else THEY win!!"
Better education is necessary to ensure that tomorrow's leaders understand the signifigance of these things. Part of better education is teaching children not to eat a bunch of junk, lest they become fatter, lazier slobs than their parents. If your mother gave you nothing but good, wholesome, quality food to eat and every time she turned around grandma was giving you candy, which are you more likely to develop a taste for? The schools should not be that liberal-thinking grandma.
If it's not bad enough that for breakfast most kids eat cereals like Frosted Flakes which are essentially nothing but sugared sugar flakes, and suck down 10% juice, 90% corn syrup drinks like Hi-C and Hawaian Punch all day, the least the schools can do as the "en loco parentis" guardians they are supposed to be is do what parents and guardians are supposed to do and make the proper nutritional choices for them, just as they should also make the right choices for them in the classroom. How is it that schools are expected to be responsible for anything bad that happens to children during the school day but we don't extend that to what the kids are eating? Saying, "Aaah, they're kids, let them eat what they want," is how we got into this mess. American adults have a 61% obesity rate. How many of you want to bet that their problems may have started somewhere between K-12? Good, mandatory physcial education programs combined with proper nutrition education backed up by a solid lunch program. It's the least we can do to ensure the future of this country.