By Anonymous
Filed Friday, February 10 at 10:50 PM
by Peter Downs
February 10, 2006 -- Aramark can't seem to get it right.
On Wednesday, February 8, teachers reported that Aramark had tried to serve a tray of moldy apples to a self-contained classroom of special education students at Gateway Institute of Technology. The same day, Aramark tried to serve wormy oranges to students at L'Ouverture Middle School, said teachers.
Teachers brought one of the apples and photos of the oranges to the school board candidates' forum Wednesday evening at Harris Stowe State University. One school board member refused to believe them.
The St. Louis Public Schools have been dogged by continuous complaints about bad food, and no food at all, ever since the district outsourced its food service program to Aramark in February 2004. The very morning of the forum, a parent a called into a radio program to complain that Aramark had run out of food before feeding all the students at Cote Brilliant Elementary School on Tuesday.
After Wednesday's forum , school board member Ron Jackson angrily accosted a female teacher in the lobby of the Emerson Auditorium. He accused her of bringing moldy fruit from her home and making up the story that it came from Aramark. The teacher was not cowed and did not back down. As the argument got more heated, John Curtis slid between the two to guide Jackson away before he lost his temper and tried to hit the lady.
Curtis is a community member who had attended the forum. Another witness was Ralph Banks, who recalled intervening at an education forum two years ago when Jackson tried to start a fight with another critic, George Cotton. Banks said that in that incident, he held Cotton back and led him away from a confrontational Jackson.
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