1. a) What options do students at Chicago's Little Village Academy public school have for lunch?
b) What do students want to do regarding their lunch?

2. Why did Principal Elsa Carmona create the lunch policy she has implemented at Little Village?

3. How does Chicago Schools spokesperson Monique Bond defend the principal's lunch policy?

4. What are Principal Carmona and Ms. Bond implying about their students' parents?

5. Who benefits financially from the Little Village lunch policy?

6. a) Why don't students like the school lunches?
b) What do many students do with the school lunches?
c) There is no mention in the article of how the principal responds to students who refuse to eat the lunch provided. How does their response to the lunch defeat the principal's stated reason for requiring students to eat the cafeteria food?

7. If the principal really believes that parents are clueless/inept about nutrition, what would be a better solution to the problem?

8. a) Ask a parent what he/she ate/drank for lunch when in school.
b) Ask a parent what he/she thinks of the principal's lunch policy (and to explain his/her answer): is the principal conscientious or overreaching?