by Kara Whitesell, Julia Frangioni, and Naomi Lathan
You might think that the food at Wayland Middle school is healthy, but what you don’t know is that there is a snack bar in the school that serves unhealthy snacks while the hot lunch line serves foods that are good for kids. When I walked into the lunch room today I saw 41 kids in that snack line and not one person in the hot lunch line.
The school offers healthy hot lunch side dishes like these:
- corn
- beans
- cooked zucchini
- rice
- mashed potatoesi
And other great stuff.
Students at the Wayland middle school don’t take advantage of those healthy choices! Out of the kids that buy lunch, this is what the sixth grade looks like:
You might think that the kids at Wayland middle school are eating healthy. But are they really?