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Students' concerns about school food quality and availability
5:28:24
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Students express their concerns about the quality and availability of food in their school. Council Member Rita Joseph shows particular interest in this topic and encourages students to elaborate.
- Students describe issues with food quality, including cold and repetitive meals
- Lack of fruit and nutritional balance in school meals is highlighted
- Students mention days when the cafeteria is closed, leaving them without food
- Council member shows familiarity with the issue, mentioning a previous hearing on school food
Celia Carter
5:28:24
I would put it to the food.
Rita Joseph
5:28:26
Food.
5:28:26
Tell me about the food.
5:28:27
I get that a lot.
5:28:28
I did a whole hearing on school food before.
5:28:31
Tell me about that.
Celia Carter
5:28:32
I'm so sorry but the food it's repetitive.
Rita Joseph
5:28:37
Okay.
Celia Carter
5:28:38
Cheese sticks is supposed to be mozzarella sticks.
5:28:42
They're not hot, they're cold.
UNKNOWN
5:28:43
Okay.
Celia Carter
5:28:48
There are sometimes some days we don't have fruit.
Rita Joseph
5:28:51
No fruits?
5:28:51
Okay.
Celia Carter
5:28:52
No fruit.
5:28:55
One day we had chickpeas and bread.
5:28:57
Oh.
5:28:58
Yes.
5:29:00
It does not fit the nutrition that we need and I feel like it's happened multiple times.
5:29:10
So I would definitely try to put some of that money towards the food.
Rita Joseph
5:29:15
Improving the food?
Liz Vladek
5:29:16
Yes.
Rita Joseph
5:29:17
Improving bathrooms you said.
5:29:19
Go ahead.
High School Student
5:29:20
I agree because I remember there's been several days throughout my lunch period where the cafeteria doors don't even open so students just have to go the whole day without eating and even if there is food, like, we don't know what they're gonna serve and students at my lunch table actually, started calling it Jeopardy since, like, every day is a new, like, mystery for what we're gonna eat that day.
5:29:45
And sometimes like we just use students use the food to like throw it around and do anything with it since we think like it's inedible to us.