A U.S. National School Lunch Program survey revealed that 70% of grade-school students said their favourite entrées are pizza, chicken nuggets, tacos, burritos, and hamburgers. Their favourite vegetable is corn… favourite dessert is cookies.
Bob Denver, the actor who portrayed the bumbling captain’s first mate on the sitcom Gilligan’s Island, was originally a school teacher.
Simple lunches are best. When surveyed, mothers of school-age kids reported that 44% of elementary school children prefer a peanut butter and jelly sandwich to all others. Second sandwich choice? Bologna.
Celebrity school dropouts: Al Pacino, Jim Carrey, Lucille Ball, Glen Campbell, Carrie Fisher, Cary Grant, Cher, and Billy Joel.
In 1990, the kid’s story "Little Red Riding Hood" was banned in the town of Empire, California. The book cover pictured a bottle of wine in Little Red Riding Hood’s goodie basket. The local school board feared the story encouraged alcohol consumption.
