REVOLT OF THE LUNCH LADIES
News item: Workers who serve meals in Chicago Public Schools say the majority of kids are not eating the healthful new foods on the cafeteria menu, according to a confidential survey released Tuesday. Oh, the humanity! That’s shocking, kids dislike healthy foods?
The survey was filled out by 436 lunch ladies. The lunch ladies also complained that they had “no input on the recipes or food”. Some were quoted as saying, ” serving on the frontline, we have a unique perspective on these changes. We see the schoolchildren of Chicago every day. We put food on their plates and we see what gets left in the trash”.
Oh my, who do these lunch ladies think they are, teachers? “No input”, “serving on the frontline”, “unique perspective”, “see the children daily”. Please, lunch ladies, teachers say those things all the time and yet have little or no say in curriculum, discipline policies, teaching methods, etc. If teachers have little input in THEIR
