Chicago Public School Students Protest FREE Cafeteria Food
They’re boycotting the free food until they get “fresher food, healthier food, a larger portion, food that [they] can actually eat.”
Daily Times reports.
Calling for higher quality” : High schoolers fixing the problem of gross school lunch
A group of students at a Chicago public high school on the city’s northwest side is calling for higher quality, healthier food to be served at their cafeteria – inspiring real change that could be felt citywide.
“We want our school to be better,” Jacquez Conwell, a junior at Roosevelt High School participating in the student protest of the “crap” meals, told HuffPost. “It’s not fair for us kids, us teenagers, to go through the day where we’re not satisfied. And if we’re not satisfied, we’re not learning anything and we’re not focused.”
Conwell is one of many Roosevelt students participating in a campaign that’s been titled The School Lunch Project.
Late last month, students debuted their website featuring photos of unappetising food they’ve been served at school, including images of still-frozen fruit cups, spoiled produce and questionable meat.
Calling for higher quality” : High schoolers fixing the problem of gross school lunch (Daily Times)
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Well the food is not “free”, their parents are paying for it through their taxes. This scenario if I remember correctly was that they stopped collecting money for lunches because it “stigmatized” the students that were receiving lunch paid through federal poverty programs. They decided that they would pull education money to make up the difference for running the school lunch program the amount they did not receive from the feds. The real problem was the cronyism that allowed contracts to be let to companies that were not monitored to provide a good lunch. They were only interested in a cheap lunch, so less school district tax money went to the lunch program. After all their are other things to waste tax money on like Junkets to Hawaii…etc. So the intent is good, but the students (because of the activist) do not understand the root cause of you get are now getting the lowest common denominator so everyone is equally miserable.
“Well the food is not “free”, their parents are paying for it through their taxes. “
What color is the sky in the the universe you live in? I doubt their parents are paying much in the way of taxes to subsidize their schools. We are. They probably get free lunch, and breakfast, and after school meal, and backpacks of food for the weekend. Further, their school cafeteria is probably open for lunches in the summer to anyone who is under 18-years-old. Makes me wonder why we give their parents SNAP money.
However, you are probably spot on with the comments about cronyism, corruption, and crapola food. Between First Lady Michelle and her efforts at “nutritious” food, and the corruption, there is a good chance for good food. As Dilbert would say “You think this is bad? During the Crimean War all we had to eat was the stale stench of death.” But then, none of these students are likely to have a clue as to the Crimean War so referred to.
Who would have guessed that crapola wasn’t in the spell checker?