{"id":141019,"date":"2023-02-04T05:11:06","date_gmt":"2023-02-04T05:11:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/freshestfm.com\/school-apologizes-for-serving-chicken-and-waffles-for-black-history-month\/"},"modified":"2023-02-04T05:11:23","modified_gmt":"2023-02-04T05:11:23","slug":"school-apologizes-for-serving-chicken-and-waffles-for-black-history-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/freshestfm.com\/school-apologizes-for-serving-chicken-and-waffles-for-black-history-month\/","title":{"rendered":"School Apologizes for Serving Chicken and Waffles for Black History Month"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>A New York public school\u00a0has apologized for serving an \u201cinexcusably insensitive\u201d meal during\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/complex.com\/tag\/black-history-month\" rel=\"noopener\">Black History Month<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The incident reportedly took place on Feb. 1 at\u00a0Nyack Middle School, when\u00a0students were offered a chicken-and-waffles lunch with a side of watermelon.\u00a0According\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/abc7ny.com\/nyack-aramark-school-lunch-controversy\/12766946\/\" rel=\"noopener\">WABC<\/a>, the school\u2019s principal,\u00a0David Johnson, placed the blame on food-service vendor Aramark, claiming the company had changed the hot lunch menu without informing the school. Officials said the original menu for Feb. 1 was\u00a0Philly cheesesteak, broccoli, and fresh fruit.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are extremely disappointed by this regrettable situation and apologize to the entire Nyack community for the cultural insensitivity displayed by our food service provider,\u201d Johnson said in a statement.\u00a0\u201cI am disappointed that Aramark would serve items that differed from the published monthly menu. Especially items that reinforce negative stereotypes concerning the African-American Community.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This isn\u2019t the first time\u00a0Aramark has been accused of perpetuating racial stereotypes. In 2018, New York University <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2018\/02\/22\/us\/nyu-kool-aid-watermelon-menu-black-history-month-trnd\/index.html\" rel=\"noopener\">cut ties with the company<\/a> after it included\u00a0ribs, collard greens, and Kool-Aid on a special menu for Black History Month.<\/p>\n<p>The vendor apologized for the incident at\u00a0Nyack Middle School, claiming it was not intended to be a \u201ccultural meal.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe apologize for the unintentional insensitivity shown on February 1, the first day of Black History Month,\u201d it wrote in a statement. \u201c\u2026\u00a0We acknowledge that the timing was inappropriate, and our team should have been more thoughtful in its service. This was a mistake and does not represent the values of our company, and we are committed to doing better in the future. We will be partnering with the District so employees who work in the schools participate in training that aligns to the Nyack School District\u2019s vision and commitment to equity-driven work. We believe this will provide a good learning opportunity to deepen understanding on the impact of systemic biases and negative stereotypes concerning the African-American Community.\u201d<\/p>\n<section class=\"suitcase-ad\" \/><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.complex.com\/life\/new-york-school-apologizes-after-students-served-chicken-waffles-black-history-month\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a rel=\"follow\" href=\"http:\/\/megatheme.ir\/\" title=\"\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633\">\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A New York public school\u00a0has apologized for serving an \u201cinexcusably insensitive\u201d meal during\u00a0Black History Month. The incident reportedly took place on Feb. 1 at\u00a0Nyack Middle School, when\u00a0students were offered a chicken-and-waffles lunch with a side of watermelon.\u00a0According\u00a0WABC, the school\u2019s principal,\u00a0David Johnson, placed the blame on food-service vendor Aramark, claiming the company had changed the hot [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":141020,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3289,111,270,5,7,1001,8,273,274,9935,1791,93],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-141019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-black-history-month","category-dfp-politics","category-dfp-politics-social","category-featured","category-music","category-new-york","category-news","category-racism","category-school","category-stereotypes","category-students","category-tier-one"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/freshestfm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/freshestfm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/freshestfm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freshestfm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freshestfm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141019"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/freshestfm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141019\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":141021,"href":"https:\/\/freshestfm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141019\/revisions\/141021"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freshestfm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/141020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/freshestfm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freshestfm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freshestfm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}