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Students tell Niskayuna board long lunch lines, suspect food-quality issues and inconsistent phone-pouch enforcement; district cites 300% lunch increase
Summary
Student representatives told the school board that high-school lunch lines stretch outside the cafeteria, alleged some expired dairy items were served, and raised confusion about phone-pouch enforcement; district officials said lunch consumption rose roughly 300% and pledged short- and long-term fixes.
Student representatives told the Niskayuna Central School District Board of Education on Oct. 14 that long lunch lines at the high school are forcing some students to skip meals or leave class early to get food and that, on multiple days, dairy items such as sour cream (and guacamole on other days) appeared to be expired.
"They're still really, really long. They stretch oftentimes outside of the cafeteria," an ex‑officio student board member said, adding that some students miss instruction because of the lines. Another student reported, "there was one day where there was sour…
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