Students Boycott Unhealthy Lunches, Headteacher Likens Action to Bomb Threat

by Mike Smith · 2009-11-26 07:41:00 UTC
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Students at Medford High School, Boston, aren't happy about their school lunches. They are demanding healthy and safe lunches, and are using Facebook and Yahoo chat forums to plan the action. 400 students have pledged to boycott the food next week, and a junior wrote on the forum "It is unfair that the school system is allowed to sell food to the students that includes meat that [supermarkets] are not permitted to sell due to FDA restrictions."

Medford High headmaster Paul Krueger likens the forum post to a bomb threat. The school has consulted with students regarding menus, and the "menu offers no fried food, no snack-cakes or other unhealthy desserts, and very few processed meats," reports the Boston Globe. Any time that kids take action and organize themselves to protest something they feel strongly about — flexing they political muscles, and questioning authority — has to be a good thing. The crusade for better food will hopefully inspire the kids to not passively submit to bad treatment, and protest their anger in a constructive manner.

Photo credit: Erin.kkr

Mike Smith is associate editor at Change.org.
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