High School Students Threaten to Boycott Unhealthy School Lunches

Some students at a Medford, Mass. High School are threatening a protest of their school food.

More than 400 students have pledged on Facebook to boycott the food next week, even as schools Superintendent Roy Belson insists that it is healthy.

“We are fighting for multiple reasons, the greatest of which is the right to a safe and healthy lunch,’’ junior Zac Bears wrote on a Yahoo chat forum.

“The lunches now are unhealthy and are unsafe for the students that purchase them. 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.’’

Is it just me, or are High School students today way more mature than 1980's vintage students.

I'm trying to think what Facebook protests my friends and I would have threatened when I was in High School. Maybe an acid washed jeans protest both for fear of exposure to chemicals used to make the jeans and for the life-long damage caused by prolonged exposure to really bad fashion.

Comments

[Erin]

I can't imagine us boycotting anything back in 1981...seriously. We didn't see much wrong with our lives and most of us didn't question the constraints we lived under. I never would have guessed I'd "grow up" to reject so much of what society says is "normal"...wild homeschooling mom that I am.

Happy Thanksgiving...

[andrew]

I love it. I am so glad to see young people seeing the b.s. for what it is.

[john]

this is actually in Medford MA not Medford OR...

[Craig]

Thanks for the clarification.

[jessica]

too bad our sub-master is taking it as a joke. today i heard him say to another studnet "i think the people that started the boycott are confused."

[Craig]

Jessica,
Do you go to the school that is staging the boycott. If so please keep me posted here on how it unfolds. I'd love to do a follow up post on people's reactions.