School Beat: The Populist, Radical School Food RevolutionCaroline Grannanbyline‚ Sep. 06‚ 2007Five years ago, parent activists and staff at San Francisco’s Aptos Middle School fought the SFUSD bureaucracy to begin a pilot project banishing junk food sales, which expanded into the district-wide Wellness Policy. Back then, SFUSD sold soda, Twinkies, French fries and other tempting but health-busting items in middle and high schools’ a la carte Beaneries. In 2002, when the Aptos principal asked the then-SFUSD Student Nutrition Director to please stop selling soda and junk food at her school, the response was an emphatic no. "The district needs the money." |