Healthier school lunch draws mixed reactions
LAUSD, the nation’s second largest school district, has become a leader in the movement to improve school lunch menus, but not everyone is happy with the changes. The mixed student response has forced the district to revise the new menu. Items such as jambalaya have already been removed from the menu because of lack of popularity, to be replaced with beef burger sliders, pizza, and calzone– all foods from the old menu. Other students complain that the food, even when it's good, is frequently under- or over-cooked, adding to the school's black market for junk food.Theodore Roosevelt High School in Boyle Heights offers some youth opinions on how the new menu is going down. Read on at Boyle Heights Beat.