Whole wheat is taking over in the school cafeteria, something that students are particularly not happy with. The Healthy, Hunger-Free Act has finally been implemented in schools across the United States and GS isn’t an exception.
   “There is no tastefulness to the lunches,” senior Asheley Buchwalter, a new student to GS, said. “I won’t even buy things some days.”
   The complaints through the four lunches are wild as students protest the new lunch menu. From taking extra fruits and vegetables, to almost every kind of grain being whole wheat, the menu is taking a dramatic change under the new federal guidelines pushed by First Lady Michelle Obama. However, some students feel that the new change was necessary or merely no problem at all.
   “A school should have to offer healthy alternatives,” senior Brian Sweeney said. “People just don’t like change.”
  Students at other schools like Plum and Hempfield Area High School have organized strikes against the new lunch menus. The students at these surrounding schools have used Twitter and other social networks to push their protests by using the hashtag #BrownBagginIt in their tweets. At one point, they held second in the list of trending events in Pittsburgh. Most students don’t think that GS is capable of such a strike.
“I’m not sure enough students are ‘up in arms’ about this issue to organize such a strike,” Sweeney said. “It’s not going to happen overnight.”
   Although many students still aim to blame the cafeteria ladies, they are the last people to fault for these actions. Mrs. Pam Fink, the Food Service Manager for the district, has tried her best to please the students while still following the healthy guidelines.
   “I work my best to make all of the students happy,” Mrs. Fink said. “I listen to all of their requests and try to fit them into the menu.”
   While many students are strongly against the new school lunches, not many seem to be protesting them. Surprisingly, not many students have resorted to packing their lunch. Fink watched carefully as students threw away their lunches during the first week of school, curious to see what they had and had not eaten.
   “There is not as much thrown away as I would have thought,” Fink said. “We were all surprised.”
   This isn’t the only change that is coming for GS or surrounding schools. Fink is simply easing the matter in and making it as easy as possible.
   “Next year, the menu will be 100% whole wheat,” Fink said. “Breakfasts will also be completely different.”
   The act was put into affect to combat the growing obesity problem throughout the US. However, this might not be only the school’s problem, but the parent’s as well.
   “It’s not as simple as a school problem,” Sweeney said. “We have a nationwide obesity problem and if children are not taught at a young age to eat healthy, they will never break their habits.”