Los Angeles Schools to Jamie Oliver: You're Not Welcome Here
Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution will not be coming to the Los Angeles Independent School District, according to The Telegraph. The school district sent a terse letter to Oliver denying his request to film in impoverished Los Angeles schools. The letter recommended that Oliver's time would be better spent elsewhere, and that the district preferred to work with nutritionists to achieve its healthy goals for school lunches.
That's what the district said, anyway. What's really going on is something else entirely. Unsubstantiated reports say that the school officials in West Virginia -- where Jamie's first season of the show filmed -- told the L.A. officials that the whole thing was a nightmare and that all it did was embarrass the county and the schools. Publicly, the West Virginia officials said they told the L.A. officials "no comment" when asked how it went.
Jamie isn't giving up, however. He is hoping to get parents and newly elected governor Jerry Brown behind him in his quest to show the world how awful the public school lunches are in south central Los Angeles.
