{"id":10130,"date":"2012-07-13T14:25:14","date_gmt":"2012-07-13T18:25:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/?p=10130"},"modified":"2012-07-23T11:45:37","modified_gmt":"2012-07-23T15:45:37","slug":"the-secret-lives-of-students-drinking-milk-out-of-a-bag-seeing-icicles-in-food","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/2012\/07\/13\/the-secret-lives-of-students-drinking-milk-out-of-a-bag-seeing-icicles-in-food\/","title":{"rendered":"The Secret Lives of Students: Drinking Milk Out of a Bag, Seeing Icicles in Food"},"content":{"rendered":"

For today’s installment in our series, The Secret Lives of Students<\/a>, we hear a student’s complaints about school lunches.<\/em><\/p>\n

Editor’s note: This post was written by middle school student Jocelin Mora who is participating in the summer school program, Breakthrough Miami.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

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Courtesy of Jocelin Mora.<\/p>

Eight grader Jocelin Mora, 13, brings her own lunch to school. The only school lunch she enjoys are the cheese sticks. <\/p><\/div>\n

By Jocelin Mora, 13<\/strong><\/p>\n

The lunch.<\/p>\n

It obviously isn\u2019t the best but I learned to bring my own.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m sure you wouldn\u2019t like to drink milk out of a bag or have food so frozen that you can see icicles.<\/p>\n

They might be very good if they were just a little bit warmer.<\/p>\n

I really don’t enjoy being served frozen food or food that is almost uneatable. The sandwiches are unpleasant and extremely frozen.<\/p>\n

Sometimes I see icicles.<\/p>\n

I would understand if it was food that is supposed to be frozen, but it’s clearly not supposed to be.<\/p>\n

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I bring my own lunch now – I have had enough of the same food.<\/p>\n

Another thing that I disagree with is the milk in a bag. It just isn’t common.<\/p>\n

The other day one of the fifth graders told me they learned that plastic is made out of animal oil. I didn’t like the idea of mixing milk with oil, it just doesn’t seem right.<\/p>\n

However I do understand juice in a bag – I’m used to that.<\/p>\n

Some of the things I do like about the food are the cheese sticks and the juice. Mainly that’s about it. That is what I think is the best about lunch but then again that’s just my idea.<\/p>\n

They should try to provide us with better food because I know I’m not the only one who doesn’t like it.<\/p>\n

Jocelin Mora, 13, is an eighth grader at Ada Merritt School. During the summer school program with Breakthrough Miami she attends the Carrollton School campus.<\/em><\/p>\n

<\/em>For the next month we\u2019ll hear from students about life in Florida schools. They\u2019ll open up about conflicting home and school rules on fighting<\/a>, public displays of affection on school campuses, the\u00a0FCAT and other aspects of school\u00a0life.<\/em><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For today’s installment in our series, The Secret Lives of Students, we hear a student’s complaints about school lunches.<\/p>\n

Editor’s note: This post was written by middle school student Jocelin Mora who is participating in the summer school program, Breakthrough Miami. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":10170,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15],"tags":[1128,556],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10130"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10130"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10130\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10216,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10130\/revisions\/10216"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}