It's a familiar feeling -- You shuffle into the cafeteria freshman year after a long morning of classes (or a dozen pushes on the snooze button), looking forward to your quality meal. But alas, they don't have any green beans, your favorite!
The common reaction? Moaning to your friends about how "Mom always had fresh green beans" before heading back to sleep. But a recent CNN article showed that, once again, a group of second graders are better than you.
The kids William V. Wright Elementary School didn't like the veggies they were given either, but these kids didn't just complain, they practiced democracy. In a letter to the lunch lady, they expressed their concerns as true poets would:
"Dear Mrs. Duits, The food is so yummy and yummy. But there are one proplem. It is the green beans."
"We love the rest but we hate the green beans."
But, in the words of Adam Sandler,
"In Lunch Lady Land
Your dreams come true;
Clouds made of carrots and peas
Mountains built of shepherd's pie
And rivers made of macaroni and cheese."
After the letter, the school district had about 24 students try out different veggies that could be offered in the cafeteria. After the students filled out a survey, the district began to adjust the menu.
Although the orders of "stake," lobster and "chocolate filled panda cookies" will likely be passed over, a handful of second graders will grow up knowing that sometimes all you have to do is ask.
Maybe it's a little idealistic, but it's nice to think that they'll never "know" that they "can't make a difference" and maybe, just maybe, they'll react the same way to social injustice and such when they grow up.
And to think it will have all started with taking on the lunch lady.
Cool.