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Youth Radio Asks: Why Is School Lunch Gross

WLRN 91.3 FM | By Wilson Sayre,
Rachel Greig
Published August 23, 2016 at 10:02 PM EDT

“It's jail food, I feel like I’m in prison.

“It’s sometimes cold and salty. Sometimes it has no taste.”

“I look at the school lunch and don’t even eat it”

Some of the evaluations Rachel Greig collected from her classmates at Law Enforcement Officers' Memorial High School.
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Some of the evaluations Rachel Greig collected from her classmates at Law Enforcement Officers' Memorial High School.

These are just a few of the comments RachelGreigcollected about very few people’s favorite meal: school lunch.

The Miami-Dade County high school junior talks about school lunch all the time with her younger brother and dad, an elementary school teacher. And always wondered why it didn’t meet her standards for a good meal.

Follow her journey to get some answers:

You can find all of WLRN’s youth .

WLRN's youth radio program is a partnership with Urgent, Inc.’s FACE program.

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Penny Parham, Director for the Department of Food and Nutrition for Miami-Dade County Public Schools in the district's test kitchen.
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Penny Parham, Director for the Department of Food and Nutrition for Miami-Dade County Public Schools in the district's test kitchen.

Some of the evaluations Rachel Greig collected about school lunch at Law Enforcement Officers' Memorial High School.
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Some of the evaluations Rachel Greig collected about school lunch at Law Enforcement Officers' Memorial High School.
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Wilson Sayre
Wilson Sayre was born and bred in Raleigh, N.C., home of the only real barbecue in the country (we're talking East here). She graduated from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, where she studied Philosophy.
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Rachel Greig
Rachel Greig attends Law Enforcement Officers Memorial High school in Miami. She has lived in Miami Gardens her whole life. Her hobbies include karate, dance and singing. She's warming up her skills at WLRN for her future career: a news reporter. She participates in WLRN's 2016 youth radio program in collaboration with Urgent, Inc.'s FACE Program.