Kids Find School Lunch Guilty

by Katherine Gustafson · 2010-02-05 11:15:00 UTC
Topics:

The Internet seems to have lent the "school lunches are gross" movement some real momentum: A picture is worth a thousand words!

One teacher in Illinois writing under the name Mrs. Q is eating the school-provided lunch and blogging about it.

Now, the kids are getting in on the act. A group of sixth graders and one teacher at The Young Women’s Leadership School in Astoria, Queens, have started their own lunch-exposé blog, "School Lunch Found Guilty," as part of their "Play With Your Food" class. (Ed. note: Okay, a "Play With Your Food Class" may be going a bit far.)

The 27 writers  all agree that they are "grossed out" by the food at their New York City public school. Their descriptions are as quirky and charming as you'd expect from a group of 11- and 12-year-olds. In the post "Ravioli and Veggies, Egh," students Geetika and Nabila say "Okay, first of all, I felt like throwing a piano at this 'food.'"

A piano? An unusual choice of weapon, but we get the idea. Of the cheeseburger and fries, Carmela and Alyssa say that "This lunch was slimey and potatoes were so hard and greasy, I could of [sic] sworn this lunch came from another planet."

As Ed Bruske recently observed in his visits to a DC public school, the kitchen is not used for cooking as much as for heating frozen foods. The girls at The Young Women’s Leadership School make a similar observation in the blog's "(Wo)manifesto," where they write "The school is making a kitchen in the lunchroom, but why? We ask ourselves, why is there a kitchen and no cooking?"

Photo credit: stock.xchng

Katherine Gustafson is a freelance writer and editor with a background in international nonprofit organizations.
PREVIOUS STORY:
Sustainable Snacking, Super Bowl Style
NEXT STORY:
Join the Social Media Day of Action to Rid Girl Scout Cookies of Forest-Destroying Palm Oil

COMMENTS (1)

    Comment Policy

    · All fields are required to comment.

    [X]

    Comments on Change.org are meant for further exploration and evaluation of the campaign on Change.org. To that end, we welcome constructive comments. However, we reserve the right to delete comments which, as determined solely in our discretion: (1) are offensive, abusive, or off-topic; (2) include content solely intended to personally attack the campaign creator, (3) are designed to subvert or hijack comment threads rather than contribute to them; and/or (4) violate our terms of service and/or privacy policy. Repeat offenders may be permanently removed from the site at our discretion. Please also be advised that: (A) we do not actively curate and/or monitor in any manner whatsoever the comments made on the Change.org platform, and (B) the creator of each campaign on Change.org may remove any comment at her/his/its discretion.