At first I couldn't believe this video. I think it is absolutely amazing what this school is doing with their children and their school lunches. Imagine if every school did this. It would be incredible!

While school lunches must certainly be appetizing and balanced, even taste very good, the most important thing with the number of students who are poor, homeless, and have unemployed parents, is that they FILL THEM UP. School breakfast and lunch is often the only food these kids get. This economy is no time for forced dieting.

What, when and how our children eat school lunches has been a concern to many educators over the years. Visionary leadership is required for real reform across the United States, which recognizes the interrelationships between what is accepted as a well balanced lunch, sources of school lunches, funding, and teaching and learning, etc, otherwise I fear some of the initiatives described in Edutopia or by Jamie Oliver, (http://www.jamieoliver.com/school-dinners) for example, will remain the exception rather than the rule. Although providing foods that are filling to children can be a worthy consideration, nutritional value should be paramount.

Salad bars have certainly become more visible at our High Schools and universities, but there is still a lot of processed foods and foods with a lot of saturated fats in schools. When are our leaders going to connect the dots?

Nancy

My name is katrina jackson and I am a kindergarten teacher with the Macon County School System in Alabama. After viewing the video, I could not believe that these children were actually eating vegtables and excited about it. However, the one thing that I truly loved was how that teacher intergrated science, math, ss, and language and centered it around cooking witch made learning fun and a memory that will last forever.

I am finishing up my last year to become a high school teacher and I was so impressed with how inexpensive it is to make the food exponentially healthier! One dollar and change per child to give their bodies (and brains!) the fuel they need??

I agree, Nancy. The writing is on the wall, it has been for decades, and it is obviously effective in places brave enough to just do it!
S

It's amazing. I didn't know that if we try to give healthy food, it can makes amazing result.
It is important to kids that adult try to give them more healthy food.

WOW is all I can say over and over again. I have so many questions. Does anyone know who we can contact if we have questions? My students completed a Current Events assignment and we came up with several options for better and healthier school lunches. I would love some feedback on the list of questions I have.

This is wonderful and should be happening all over the world!