Case Study: Norwalk High School Food Court System

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Students at Norwalk High School are not eating enough healthy foods. Norwalk high school needs to adopt a food court system. Why, we already have a cafeteria? A food court of judges like from the judiciary system with black robes and white powdered wigs. The people of the court will judge you on your decision of how you are going to eat based on what meal you get. They can implement this by educating the lunch employees from the cooking class teachers in the high school about healthy nutrition. With the general student population the lunch employees can educate them when they go through the line of the cafeteria, and through signs and posters. This is necessary because in high school home tech where you learn about food nutrition is not mandatory.
The system that would be put into place is in a points system table and what food you get is so many points of healthiness. The incentive to eat healthier because people are not going to change for no reason is during TA time on fridays the students get to leave to lunch earlier than our usual fifteen minutes to eat which is really short. This is possible because during TA time on friday we usually do not do anything besides sitting and talking. Most students eat school lunch so they are wasting the given eating time of 6th hour sitting in a classroom talking instead of using the valuable given time the school has …show more content…

They click on a food option and the app registers the purchase and uses the points chart to track the points gained.
Why track points of school lunches that are already USDA approved? Should they not already be healthy? If you google “are school lunches unhealthy” the first couple articles are about how school lunches can improve. Even though we cannot force kids to eat healthy we can educate them to make the correct decision and we can push that decision with an easily implementable

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