After school officials eliminated chocolate milk from the lunch menu, a 9-year-old boy leads his classmates in a protest (video)

Last week, a 9-year-old youngster launched a protest with his classmates after his school withdrew chocolate milk from the lunch menu.

Jordan Reed and his Sierra Vista K-8 School classmates in Vacaville, California, organized a protest over the district’s intention to remove chocolate milk from lunch menus in 2020. Many students, including Reed, were dissatisfied with the school’s decision.

He told NBC station KCRA-TV, “We used to have it, but then they just took it away.”

According to another student, the drink was highly popular. Wesson Markowski, a sixth-grader, told the outlet, “You’d be lucky to obtain a seat for chocolate milk because it would all be gone.”

When Jordan’s government decided to stage a demonstration, the idea was born.

Doss had given her students a Scholastic News piece headlined Should Schools Serve Flavored Milk? that day, about a fourth-grader in Missouri who petitioned to have strawberry milk reintroduced at his school.

On Friday, February 11, 26 students in Jordan’s class staged a protest to reintroduce the drink, which was successful. Jordan and his pals pulled the school district’s nutrition department to Sierra Vista for an impromptu, on-the-spot negotiation.

Richie Wilim, the district chef and culinary manager, told The Washington Post that the drink was initially removed from schools owing to its high sugar content.

Jordan contended that delivering ordinary milk as a snack to the group when the district’s director of student nutrition met with them to hear what they had to say.

The school board was forced to agree to give the sweetened milk once a week as a result of the protest. Jordan told the publication, “I felt comfortable about it.” “I brought something back that everyone desired,” says the narrator.

The district chef, Wilim, thinks the students’ protests are fantastic, acknowledging that he and others in the nutrition department “were missing a critical component” until they heard from their most vocal opponents.

“It was really cool the way Jordan presented himself to bring in a healthy debate and for us to find a compromise — that chocolate milk should be available as a treat,” Wilim said, adding, “It was really cool the way Jordan presented himself to bring in a healthy debate and for us to find a compromise — that chocolate milk should be available as a treat.” He also gave Jordan some positive news: School officials intend to sweeten the offer.