Students in Chicago Public Schools were not pleased with their free lunchroom food- not that they are being too picky but because the food is outright "disgusting, unhealthy, unappetizing and overly processed." When these kids' palate cannot take it anymore, they did something revolutionary; they took the issue of school cafeteria food in the internet.
Every meal in nearly every CPS lunchroom is made by the district and are given free to every student. With the federally subsidized program's intention of having kids coming from low-income families benefit from free meals, ending mountains of sometimes fraudulent lunch paperwork, moving lunch lines faster, and making it easier for everyone to get a school meal, officials expected to see an …show more content…
It clearly shows that free meal does not entirely mean they're something you would be glad about.
Junior Shirley Hernandez, one of the honors civic students from Roosevelt High School took a bold step in addressing this cafeteria food issue: launching the School Lunch Project website and a petition to change food in the district this month. "We want bigger portions, more nutritious food and [food] partly handmade from scratch," Hernandez said. "It's a human right to have decent food, not the lowest quality of food."
Currently, students are presented with a menu of mostly processed fast food. Roosevelt civics student Duyen Ho believes this could create long-term health problems to the student body. "The fact that we eat fast food every day is going to affect us in the long term... It's going to affect us a lot," Ho said.
CPS records show that the three most frequently served are pizza, cheeseburgers and chicken patties. They are definitely full of preservatives, fillers, stabilizers and additives despite the recent directives to the National School Lunch Program requiring meals to contain less fat and sodium and more fiber than previous lunches for healthier school
Every meal in nearly every CPS lunchroom is made by the district and are given free to every student. With the federally subsidized program's intention of having kids coming from low-income families benefit from free meals, ending mountains of sometimes fraudulent lunch paperwork, moving lunch lines faster, and making it easier for everyone to get a school meal, officials expected to see an …show more content…
It clearly shows that free meal does not entirely mean they're something you would be glad about.
Junior Shirley Hernandez, one of the honors civic students from Roosevelt High School took a bold step in addressing this cafeteria food issue: launching the School Lunch Project website and a petition to change food in the district this month. "We want bigger portions, more nutritious food and [food] partly handmade from scratch," Hernandez said. "It's a human right to have decent food, not the lowest quality of food."
Currently, students are presented with a menu of mostly processed fast food. Roosevelt civics student Duyen Ho believes this could create long-term health problems to the student body. "The fact that we eat fast food every day is going to affect us in the long term... It's going to affect us a lot," Ho said.
CPS records show that the three most frequently served are pizza, cheeseburgers and chicken patties. They are definitely full of preservatives, fillers, stabilizers and additives despite the recent directives to the National School Lunch Program requiring meals to contain less fat and sodium and more fiber than previous lunches for healthier school