Immediately I knew that it would be a hit. When I first viewed it, it had over 15,000 views in two days, and as I am writing this post, it is just shy of 50,000 views!! I was so interested in the video, I contacted the person who posted the YouTube video to ask a couple of questions. The video poster, blk5348, was happy to answer my questions. I was most curious about why blk5348 posted the video, and how the idea was created.
" I am one of the few teachers that still occasionally eats lunch at school. Partially because I have a really short amount of time to eat, so it's just easier to eat there. I'm very active during the day and have a high metabolism and burn through a lot of calories and protein in a day. One day I went through the line and asked why we weren't getting meat. I was told the cheese that was in the breadstick accounted for the protein allotment so they weren't allowed to give us meat in the sauce. I was pretty upset, so I took a picture of my meal and posted it on Facebook with the story. The response and conversation was overwhelming."
With a little help from a fellow teacher, blk5348 was able to come up with the video idea, and with the lyrics from her colleague, they talked to kids to see if they would be interested.
"From there, we talked to students and parents, got it approved by the administration and the rest is history."
What an awesome video!!
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This is totally awesome and creative...the most eye-opening part was the young 5K or 1st graders crawling out of the school...they DO NEED to learn at an early age what good nutrition can do! I give this video 5 stars!
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