School cuts lights, demands silence to get students to eat Michelle O lunches
January 24, 2017
By Victor Skinner
PEORIA HEIGHTS, Ill. – An Illinois school is shutting the lights off on students during lunch and forcing them to sit in silence as a means of cutting down on food waste.
Michelle Obama shockThe problem started when students at Peoria Heights grade school and high school stopped eating their government-provided lunches and tossed most of the food in the trash, an increasing problem at schools across the nation since Michelle Obama inspired school lunch regulations took effect in 2012.
Peoria Heights District Food Service Director Suzanne Crawford contacted the University of Illinois Extension in the spring of 2016, and the university sent Fulton-Mason-Peoria-Tazewell Unit SNAP-ED educator Michelle Fombelle to conduct a “Smarter Lunchroom Assessment” at both schools, according to AgriNews.
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