You'll Get Nothing But Cheese and You'll Like It

School administrators have found an effective way to crack down on students who engage in food fights: Let them eat cheese. And nothing else.

Students at Atlantic City High School were served plain cheese sandwiches for two days this week as punishment for a cell phone-coordinated food fight that broke out recently.

One parent likened the American cheese between two dry slices of plain white bread to "a prison meal."

"I know it's food they were throwing around, but some people are allergic to cheese," said senior James Blake. "I can see if they served peanut butter and jelly. But just cheese? It's ridiculous."

School Superintendent Fredrick Nickles declined through an aide to comment. But he told The Press of Atlantic City the school supplies only the basic food requirement when there's been a food-throwing incident, adding that the policy has been effective through the years.

The punishment affects students in the lunch period when the fight broke out, not all three lunch periods.

"Not everyone was involved in it," said senior Jailene Bermudez. "It's not fair to those who didn't take part."

The menu was back to normal on Friday, with students able to choose among entrees including honey barbecue chicken, burgers, fries, pizza, tacos and tuna salad.

[jankebenzone]

The listed lunch menu is all junk food, is it any wonder kids are obese suffer autism, ads,and have learning disabilities?

[barbaram99]

Maybe the schools need to go back the lunch menu we had..We did not have a say in what we were served at lunch..I member the school lunch..It was a bal meal.. Since every person got the same there were no pick n chose..The weekly menu was posted..

[K. Daraa]

This solution was very Krafty of the Atlantic City School officials, although I thought the CBS coverage was pretty cheesy! The story melted my heart like a slice of extra-mature cheddar.

[Midwest_Ben]

Grilled cheese is healthy for kids... not.

[Dgunner]

WOW! THEY CAN AFFORD CHEESE!

[RoboBlogger]

To settle the matter the school should allow 3 food fights within the year. One in the beginning of the year-just for the hell of it. Another in the middle of the year to get their frustrations out. Finally, a last and final one for the end of the year. Or they cut it down to two. Either one. Of course they get to clean up what they throw.

[barbaram99]

In my day, the school lunch was the meal same for everyone got to eat..We did not choose what we were served. If schools went back to that the better. High school has 3 lunch periods..I used to help in the lunch room when I was a student years ago.So I knew that..We did not have school food fights..The teachers ate the same as the students.

[run2jazz2]

I love grill cheese sandwiches and think that if you don't like it then you eat nothing! I don't remember anytime during my life as a child that I was afforded by my Mother a choice in what was put before me? After going to be a few days very hungry it humbled me to eat the meal my Mother made.

[formrusmcsgt]

An Atlantic City School Delivers an Unusual Punishment Designed to End Food Fights
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Make 'em eat salad.

That'll put an end to it for the entire year.

Kids today act like vegetables are poisonous.

[kansas1946]

"I know it's food they were throwing around, but some people are allergic to cheese," said senior James Blake. "I can see if they served peanut butter and jelly. But just cheese? It's ridiculous."
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LOL. There are a lot more kids allergic to peanut butter and jelly than cheese, and a peanut allergy can kill you by just touching it, but a cheese allergy you have to eat and it isn't life threatening. I think it is a great idea. Kids have to learn there are consequences for their actions. They can also learn that they have power. When I was a kid in high-school, they shortened the lunch period to twenty minutes because some kids were smoking in the restrooms during lunch. Well, that seemed hardly fair to us kids, so we refused to eat in the caffeteria. Everyone just sat down in the hall outside the caffeteria. The school was required to fix the lunches, so they had to throw out all the food for a couple of days. The lunch periods were back to normal in a few days. The kids in this case will know who the culprits are that are causing the rest of them grief, and I imagine peer pressure will take care of the problem.