Community Corner
What Students Said About District 68's Cafeteria Food
On Wednesday, April 13, I visited William F. Murphy Elementary School and Jefferson Jr. High School to talk to students about what they thought about their school lunches. Click through the photo gallery to meet some students and hear what they said.
The opinions of the students are listed in the order I talked with them. There is one student I talked to and did not get a photo of.
Trevor Smith, a seventh-grader at Jefferson, said he eats hot lunch every day because it's convenient and the food is okay.
"It's not bad, but it's not the best quality," Smith said. He and his friends said the pizza can be burned a lot and the chicken and rice dishes can be hot on the top but cold on the bottom.
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The food District 68 serves in its schools meets the requirements set by the National School Lunch Program. The program allows the district to be reimbursed for students who qualify for free or reduced-price lunches. In return, the district must adhere to the program's restrictions.
Menu items are prepared at Preferred Meal Systems’ facility, individually portioned and sealed, delivered to local schools, heated and served.
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To learn more about the National School Lunch Program and the challenges the district faces in feeding its students,
To learn more about the What's for Lunch series itself,
Next week, we'll compare District 68's cafeteria food to their fast-food counterparts in terms of nutritional value.
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