School Cafeteria Worker's "Talking Bananas" Bring Positivity To Students' Lives

Nov 25, 2019 by apost team

Inspiration can come in many forms. While many children consider firefighters, police officers, teachers or doctors to be incredibly inspiring, anyone that wants to be a force of positivity can make an impact on students' lives.

This is certainly true of one inspirational woman. While she is an important figure in her school, she is often behind the scenes, taking care of every child's needs before and during school. That person is a lunch lady named Stacey Truman - always there for her students and an inspiration to all that needed it, as reported here at ABC News.

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While most of the work of many tireless, hardworking people goes unnoticed, this lunch lady's words of inspiration are now well known around the world after they recently went viral.

Stacey Truman, the Virginia Beach Kingston Elementary School's cafeteria manager started using bananas to inspire the students in her school.

Stacey uses bananas to write messages of encouragement to the students that she sees each day. Students take one, two, or three bananas just to see the messages of positivity that are written on each of them.

For many of the students, these "talking bananas" have become like fortune cookies. Students can't wait to take a banana to read the simple messages written on them. Messages like "be kind", "you're smart", "you're a superstar", and more are the words that Stacey uses to encourage the kids.

After posting a picture of the bananas online, Stacey was surprised at the attention she was receiving. As the story quickly went viral, people all over the world were touched by the lunch lady's positivity and encouragement.

Stacey's principal Sharon Shewbridge shared the story on Yahoo Lifestyle. While Stacey wanted to remain anonymous, Sharon said that she was really proud of the lunch lady's efforts. "It's simple, but these words can help them be more courageous and realize that they are good enough," she said of the innovative gesture. After the principal shared the story on Twitter, other people soon commented with their support. Many wrote encouraging comments and others posted saying that they would start writing positive notes on bananas for their students.

Though Stacey's words were simple, they had a huge impact on the students. What did you think of the talking bananas? Pass this on to fruit lovers everywhere or those that might need a boost.