Sentences with phrase «visit lunchrooms»

Reformers like Dr. Susan Rubin urge us to visit our lunchrooms often, to taste the food, to take pictures, and to talk to kids, because what we see printed on the school menu is often inaccurate or misleading.

But the Northbrook School District 28 administrative assistant, who had never visited the lunchroom, let alone dined there, now buys her meals each day in the cafeteria, where the menus got a healthful upgrade three years ago.

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Even the administration and teachers began to forego off - site meals to visit the beautiful salad display right in the lunchroom!

Adopting robust, regular Lunchroom Education programs to educate the students from the moment they start visiting our cafeterias will allow us to grow their appetite for fresh foods over the long term.

When top Chicago chefs visited a Northwest Side lunchroom this fall and found bags of Tostitos with ground meat as the main course, their first instinct was to roll up their sleeves and start cooking.

The Tribune paid a final lunchroom visit Wednesday to Von Steuben High School, where dozens of kids took foam trays loaded with nachos, fries, chocolate milk and canned fruit.

In the meantime, let us know in a comment if you visit your own child's lunchroom — tomorrow or any time — and tell us what you find there.

In the Greeley and Gresham schools and others we visited and in most of the elementary school lunchrooms throughout the city, children pick up their trays and file along a short cafeteria line that offers a serving of meat or an alternative, a vegetable, bread, fruit and milk.

On visits to lunchrooms in Chicago public schools, the Tribune watched as vast quantities of unpeeled fruit, vegetables, milk cartons and other items got pitched into the garbage.

A visit to the lunchroom will give you a first - hand glimpse of what the lunchroom is really like.

Once you have visited the school lunchroom, read the menu and talked with your child you will be in a good position to ask questions.

Adopting robust, regular Lunchroom Education programs to educate the students from the moment they start visiting our cafeterias will allow us to grow their appetite for fresh foods over the long term.

You might schedule a visit during lunch, for example, so that you can peek into the lunchroom and yard during recess.

The week I visited, fights frequently broke out; the lunchroom was in chaos.

Student achievement comes first, but we also monitor budgets, talk to teachers, supervise the lunchroom, sign off on field trips, meet and greet parents, sit in on assessments, join parent - teacher conferences, lead meetings, cheer athletic teams and artistic performances, make sure the restrooms are clean, check that supplies are received — and sometimes we manage to visit classrooms.

MOCAA has a whole floor of classrooms with a lunchroom to encourage daylong visits from far - flung schools, and offers free admission on Wednesday mornings for all South Africans and people from the African continent.