Photo courtesy of LeighFran Jones.
Chelsea High School students helped serve breakfast at Mt Laurel Elementary earlier this year.
Mt Laurel Elementary School’s Mystery Servers program aims to increase breakfast participation, and a visit by the Chelsea High School football players and cheerleaders earlier this year helped fulfill that goal.
Some of the football players and cheerleaders stood behind the breakfast line, and others walked around the cafeteria and talked with students. Some of the elementary school students also asked the Chelsea High School students for autographs.
The Mystery Servers program helped increase breakfast participation by about 25 percent, said LeighFran Jones, child nutrition program area manager for Shelby County Schools.
Students tend to perform better when they eat breakfast, so the whole school benefits, Jones said.
