Hi Everyone!Okay, I work as a teacher's aide for a junior high, going on about three years now. In my time there I have watched with horror the lunch most of the kids eat. The cafeteria lunch is slightly better then the snack bar, but only because there is a salad bar that comes with the cafeteria lunch or can be purchased seperately. Now the snack bar is of course packed with every unhealthy lunch item that can be imagined. Pizza, sub sandwiches, Little Debbie snack cakes (think honey buns, donuts and oatmeal creme pies) burritos, chips, and cookies. Oh and at break time, that's in the morning,there are fresh baked cookies offered. Now I have nothing against fresh baked cookies, every once in a while I crave them myself. (Although I prefer to bake them so I know what goes in them) But these kids will have them EVERY MORNING! And here we are as a staff complaining about the behavior of them, when in reality running through their veins is the high fructose corn syrup and saturated/trans fat, and excess bad carbs that has to be part of the blame. Sorry to be so talkative on this, but here is where I NEED your advice. Two sixth graders that are really great kids, started complaining about the lack of healthy food. So I encouraged them to do something about it. They went around and got over half of the kids at school to sign a paper saying they too wanted to see healthier options at the snack bar, (pretty amazing huh?) as well as quite a few of the staff. Months and months later they were told they would be able to present it to the school board. It is on the agenda for tom. night. The student's asked me if I could write an outline for them, as they only get five minutes to present their argument. As you can see I'm not to good with being short on words here.
I know some points I would like to highlight, but I know you guys here are really good with health issues. So any advice you can give will be so greatly appreciated. Thank you so much in advance, Lisa