They may not be the horrors that India's midday meals are but school lunches in the US are not the nutritious, delicious affairs they are made out to be on online menus. A fourth grader's guerrilla documentary has blown the lid off the lunch.
A New York City 4th grader's documentary exposing his school's lunchroom menu caused a stir recently. According to The New York Times, Zachary Maxwell, who attends P. S. 130 Hernando De Soto in Little Italy, recorded six months of footage in the cafeteria, hidden-camera style.
The lunchroom monitor in his school cafeteria did catch Zachary filming without permission and was told by teachers to stop to delete the footage. Zachary pretended to delete the day's shots. After that lapse in production security, he said, "I fired my lookouts.
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