Spreading the word on importance of breakfast in D211

National School Breakfast Week helps encourage and educate students about why they shouldn't skip what is considered the most important meal of the day. For many students in the country, including some in District 211, access to a proper breakfast isn't always possible.

That is why District 211 participated in National School Breakfast Week, which promotes the importance of breakfast for students.

This year, all five high schools served breakfast during lunch on March 9. Any students who purchased the breakfast meal for lunch received a raffle ticket for a change to win five free breakfasts.

Fremd High School hosted its Breakfast with the Principal event on March 10. Principal Kurt Tenopir and Fremd High School staff handed out 378 complimentary breakfast meals to students.

Schaumburg High School now offers a Grab and Go cart for breakfast in their main entrance, and on March 9 Seige, the school's mascot, helped promote breakfast.

At District 211, both hot and cold breakfast entrees are served daily at all schools. Each school offers a minimum of seven breakfast options and approximately 1,100 breakfasts are served at school each morning. During first semester this school year, a total of 97,567 student breakfasts were served. The number one hot breakfast item across the district is chicken on a biscuit.

National School Breakfast Week was established in 1989 in coordination with the School Nutrition Association. It provides schools with the opportunity to highlight and promote the importance of school breakfast. Research has shown that students who eat breakfast have improved memory, problem-solving skills, and creative abilities. School breakfast provides daily servings of fruit, whole grains, and low fat and fat free milk as well as meeting federal nutrition guidelines based on the Dietary Guidelines for Americans.

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