Writing can work
Writing letters actually can work. Just ask the students in Constantine Christopulos‘ class at William V. Wright Elementary School in Las Vegas.
The students in this second grade class were tired of eating frozen green beans time and again with their school lunches. I can’t say that I blame them. The green beans at my previous school’s cafeteria were nasty. Over cooked and tasteless, they looked like something brought in by the cat.
Constantine Christopulos decided to use the students dislike of the vegetable to teach a lesson in democracy. The students wrote letters to the school’s lunch manager which praised what they liked while politely stating their concerns over the beans.
The Clark County School District heard about the campaign and sent some staff to the school to see what alternatives the students would like. Yesterday two dozen students tried several different vegetables and filled out a survey to help determine what they liked.
Cooked peas, another dreaded vegetable in my last school’s cafeteria, didn’t fare very well.
The district supervisor for Clark County School District, Sue Hoggan, said that the results of yesterday’s survey would be used to “tweak” school menus.
Unfortunately, green beans will still be served on occasion.
Kids take on lunch lady — and win
Crossposted on Bring It On!
jan:
One of my annual assignments when I taught English was to have the students write and mail a letter of complaint. No one ever had trouble thinking of a recipient. Then we took a day to read the letters. After a couple of weeks we would take a day to read the answers. There was almost a 100% replies to their polite, forceful letters.
31 July 2007, 4:56 pmjan:
Oops, you took off your edit comments
31 July 2007, 4:59 pmoption.
Laura:
No, I didn’t take the edit comments option off.?
Just great another bug to work out.?
I take that back. It’s working fine. I checked by opening the blog in IE and leaving the comment in IE when I wasn’t signed into the blog. This last bit was done through the edit function.
What browser are you using? Maybe that’s the problem.
kip152:
Saw this on Countdown. If only these kids could do an expose on the school's mystery meat.
1 August 2007, 12:27 amJohnny:
good for the kids, they saw a problem and worked together to fix it.
1 August 2007, 12:07 pm