Bring back strawberry milk at school!


Bring back strawberry milk at school!
The Issue
Students used to love the strawberry milk at school but suddenly it was taken away from them. Now they drink sad chocolate milk and disgusting white milk. How do you feel about the fact that students are suffering from the taste of that horrible milk! (If you can even call it that.) Help save students from endless suffering and bring back strawberry milk.
Students stopped drinking milk at school because they relied on strawberry milk. The dietary change impacted students in a negative way. Some students lost all appetite and stopped eating at school. About one in twenty students don't eat lunch at school. (https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/933133) That impactes their ability to think reasonably, focus, and answer questions correctly.
“There is pretty solid evidence that children who are hungry are not able to focus, so they have a low attention span, behavioral issues, discipline issues in the school,” said Sibylle Kranz, an associate professor of kinesiology and a registered dietitian nutritionist in the Curry School. “Having children who are well-fed and not hungry makes a difference in their individual performance, and also how much they are contributing to or disrupting the classroom situation.” (https://news.virginia.edu/content/brain-food-exploring-connections-between-nutrition-and-learning
Some kids refuse to drink milk or eat at school because it is bad or doesn't taste very good. My friend (no name for privacy reasons) refuses to eat because of the taste of the milk. They got extremely sick one time and now only wants strawberry milk. That isn't very convincing evidence but it proves my point.
Wasting food is another big problem. In some schools, banning flavored milk created a new problem: food waste. In 2011, public schools in Los Angeles, California, stopped serving chocolate milk. About 236 gallons of plain milk went to waste every week. That waste was reduced by 75 percent after the district brought back chocolate milk in 2016. (https://sn4.scholastic.com/issues/2021-22/011722/debate-should-schools-serve-flavored-milk.html?language=english

The Issue
Students used to love the strawberry milk at school but suddenly it was taken away from them. Now they drink sad chocolate milk and disgusting white milk. How do you feel about the fact that students are suffering from the taste of that horrible milk! (If you can even call it that.) Help save students from endless suffering and bring back strawberry milk.
Students stopped drinking milk at school because they relied on strawberry milk. The dietary change impacted students in a negative way. Some students lost all appetite and stopped eating at school. About one in twenty students don't eat lunch at school. (https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/933133) That impactes their ability to think reasonably, focus, and answer questions correctly.
“There is pretty solid evidence that children who are hungry are not able to focus, so they have a low attention span, behavioral issues, discipline issues in the school,” said Sibylle Kranz, an associate professor of kinesiology and a registered dietitian nutritionist in the Curry School. “Having children who are well-fed and not hungry makes a difference in their individual performance, and also how much they are contributing to or disrupting the classroom situation.” (https://news.virginia.edu/content/brain-food-exploring-connections-between-nutrition-and-learning
Some kids refuse to drink milk or eat at school because it is bad or doesn't taste very good. My friend (no name for privacy reasons) refuses to eat because of the taste of the milk. They got extremely sick one time and now only wants strawberry milk. That isn't very convincing evidence but it proves my point.
Wasting food is another big problem. In some schools, banning flavored milk created a new problem: food waste. In 2011, public schools in Los Angeles, California, stopped serving chocolate milk. About 236 gallons of plain milk went to waste every week. That waste was reduced by 75 percent after the district brought back chocolate milk in 2016. (https://sn4.scholastic.com/issues/2021-22/011722/debate-should-schools-serve-flavored-milk.html?language=english

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Petition created on January 25, 2024



