Meatless Mondays and School Lunch Programs

Today's edition of CNN Student News has two segments that could be used in health classes and or civics classes. The middle segment is about proposed changes to school lunch programs. That segment is followed by a story about a school in Maryland that is trying to implement a "meatless Monday" lunch program.



Applications for Education
These segments could be the starting place for conversations in a health class about the nutrition of school lunches. In a civics class the discussion could be based around the question "what role should the government play in the personal lives of its citizens?"