As every U.S citizen knows every child must attend school and get their education. The government on their end must provide their students with a free lunch. Parents/guardians have fully committed themselves to leave their children under the schools protection believing that they will be educated and well taken care of that of course including providing all students with a healthy lunch. Now it has been proven that most if not all public schools across the United States are feeding their students unhealthy lunches that will ultimately lead to them becoming overweight.
My following proposal is for any and all principles, super intendant of schools, and school districts. I propose to get rid of and/or change the unhealthy, tasteless, and unsatisfying
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I propose that we should have a variety of foods to select from. Food that does not come from a box and has to be unfrozen before serving the students. Being a student myself I can speak for the students on how they would much rather buy fast food from the street or buy junk food from anyone selling because of how bad the school lunches are.
I am not saying that all school lunches given are horrible. There are days were lunch includes fresh food like salads and fruits. But, I believe that there should always be enough freshly made food to serve for students. For the lunch ladies not to separate the school lunch and include the regular day food accompanied by the fresh salad and fruits daily. Every student has the right to be served something that is both tasteful and includes any type of healthy food item.
So, after listening and examining my fellow classmates I have come to the conclusion that students would much rather prefer to have lunch that includes snacks that they enjoy and have a nice freshly well-cooked meal that will fully satisfy them. That is why you should perhaps think about my proposal for a change for all schools and their school lunches. This is something that I am sure all students will thank you
The Healthy Hunger Free Kids Act has taken over schools nationwide and needs to be stopped. There are more negatives than positives that go along with this act and there needs to be an end. Schools should not have to waste money on expensive food to have it not be eaten. Students should be able to enjoy what the lunchroom has to offer. The students do not buy these lunches so the food goes to waste. In 2012, when the Healthy Hunger Free-Kids Act was made students stopped eating their school lunches and schools began to lose great amounts money. It 's beneficial to encourage healthy eating habits with schools but this act needs to be reformed.
has to spend more money on changing school lunch system from eliminating unnecessary spending portion of system and create farming class. As reported by Cooper, “ The National School Lunch Program needs 8 billion dollars to feed 30 million children a year to serve high quality foods.” However, this price of amount has to be double to serve healthy foods to students because our next generation has to grow up with high quality foods not with low quality foods. Moreover, according to Cooper, the U.S. spends more than 100 million dollars on fast foods portion which the U.S. suppose to spend less amount of money on fast foods to improve the entire food system of the country. If the U.S. government lower the expense of fast food system and raises the amount of money for school lunches, entire schools of the U.S. would get positive results. For example, students could brainstorm very fast as Albert Einstein, and gain more energy to work out on their gym classes. Furthermore, school have to create agriculture class for students to have strong knowledges in foods. Students can literally be ware of what they eat at their lunch times; they will know vegetables grow in the ground and how foods are really fresh. Therefore, schools must provide farming class as in Berkeley; students have rights to know how foods are important to them. As a result, students could get a lot of benefits for changing school
In the United States the daily public school lunch consists of pizza, cheese burgers, Chef Boyardee ravioli, fried chicken fingers, French fries and it gets worse. Most American students hate the lunch that their school provides, which means as soon as they are able to drive, they leave school and go to the nearest fast food restaurant. "Critics say that school lunches contribute to the fattening of the United States." (5) The most controversial argument about US school lunches happened when "David Stockman, Reagan's budget director, proposed classifying ketchup as a vegetable to meet dietary requirements while also slashing costs." (5) Honestly, what's next? American school lunches have to meet the recommendations of the Dietary Guidelines, which obviously is not good enough considering "30% of individuals calories come from fat, and 10% from saturated fat." (5)
I don't think our school lunch is healthy because it has fat and too much sodium. Although it is good it is fattening it is the reason for much of the obesity in the U.S. Many kids have no other option to eat the unhealthy school lunches or they will be hungry.
School lunch is an obvious problem that has yet to be fixed. Mark Samuelsson once said, “We struggle with eating healthily, obesity, and access to good nutrition for everyone. But we have a great opportunity to get on the right side of this battle by beginning to think differently about the way that we eat and the way that we approach food.” A well know fact to almost all students and their parents is that there are many problems with school lunches and it needs to change. Not only is school lunch unhealthy, but it also does not taste good most of the time. Some people feel that school lunch is not that big of a deal so it should be very cheaply processed in factories and preserved, but that is not the case. In order to solve the lingering
Schools are meant to give our children a healthy and nurturing environment, and yet so much of the lunches in schools are fattening; does this stop schools from achieving the aforementioned goal? Childhood obesity in the United Sates continues to be a growing problem despite so any new programs to help combat it, and new research is showing how schools may be playing a large role in childhood obesity. School lunches are showing to be the problem, they encourage poor nutrition in our nation’s students, and simple reform is proving to not be enough to stop the rise in obesity rates.
Allowing healthier school lunches will decrease obesity in children because it will give them the proper nutrition to reduce the risk of health issues. Since obesity causes many health issues, maintaining a proper nutrition will reduce the risk of health issues. According to Star- Telegram, a daily newspaper that serves Fort Worth and areas of North Texas states, “[School lunches that have] a meal of pizza sticks, a banana, raisins and whole milk has given way to whole wheat spaghetti with meat sauce, a whole wheat roll green beans, broccoli, cauliflower, kiwi and low-fat milk … This change will help more than 2.4 million Texas students who receive a free or reduced- price school lunch to lead healthier, more active lives—in and out of the classroom”(Par. 2 and 4). School lunches are supposed to guarantee students a well balance meal, so they can have the energy to proceed with their classes throughout the day. Meanwhile, students who receive a f...
School lunch menu should be healthy and nutritious for the students. There are several ways to fix the school lunch menu problems. In many schools, they are selling/providing junk food like chips, cookies, sugared liquids, candy, and most other snakes. Removing these junk food items from school lunch menu should be a good action that helping children make a healthy food choice.
Lunch is one of the most important meals of the day and is consumed mostly in school cafeterias for children and adolescence. Wholesome lunches are vital in maintaining a healthy metabolism and give children energy for the rest of the school day. Children are advised to eat healthily but do not always do so because the choices of tastier, fatty foods offered in school cafeterias. The National School Lunch Program, NSLP, which is a federally assisted meal program operating in public and nonprofit private schools set nutritious guidelines for lunches served in school cafeterias (USDA). However, school campuses still offer foods high in fat as well as selling candy, chips, and soda in their vending machines, as well as their school shops. In order
Many people wants to know how come we bring our own lunch to school. The school lunch isn't good to start off plus it doesn't even fill you up. I know the schools think they're helping with obesity and unhealthy, but not everyone is obese or unhealthy. Many kids be very hungry in school and many people worry about there stomach more than work.
With the implementation of the “Healthy Kids Hunger-Free Act” schools are not serving as many lunches and participation is decreasing. According to the Government Accountability Office (GOA), “Nationwide, student participation declined by 1.2 million students(or 3.7 percent) from school year 2010-2011 through school year 2012-2013, after having increased steadily for many years”(sec. 1). The school lunches became more distasteful and bland; the combinations of foods did not make sense, and the portion sizes decreased significantly. In order to support the cafeteria
You don’t want that, right? I believe that our school should get a new lunch menu because many students do not like the food served, there are not many options, and there are many problems with the food. One reason our school should get a new lunch menu is that many students do not like the food served. For example, a survey was taken and of the 31 students, 100% said they disliked the food. As student Bryan Huang said, “The lunches are horrible, they need better choices and more choices.”
Students learn and do their best when they are hungry, and uncomfortable! That makes perfect sense right? If you’re like most Americans, this may be one of the most ridiculous statements you have ever heard. I know I have never done anything better hungry. Many students sit through their lunch time at school because they have no food to eat because they don’t have the money to afford it, or they are not able to bring food from home for various reasons. This is why many schools have free and reduced lunch programs. But not everybody can apply for these programs; even middle class families in today’s economy sometimes can’t give their child cash every day. Times are tough, and every family is different. These are good programs, but they are not good enough. One child missing a meal, and going hungry is too many in my book. That’s why I think it should be at least a state law in North Carolina, if not a federal law, that offers free lunch in all public schools for all students, regardless of income. This way it’s simple, cost effective and easy, and nobody will be singled out, or go hungry if they do not bring their lunch from home.
First let’s start with quantity. This is why students are depressed. They get starved. I believe students should get what they paid for. If they are going to make us wait till 12:30 to eat, we should at least get enough food to fill our emptied bellies. Now for the quality. The food I give my pets and the food that goes in my mouth should not look the same. They could at least starve us with food so good you don’t need more. If we got better food, I bet the amount of food wasted would be reduced. 0/20 students said the quality of the lunch food on average is great.(ELA-Hour6) Now I do believe our school does serve some good food sometimes, it just needs to happen more often to satisfy the minds of students. Overall I feel like with a few changes to our lunch, students would be more satisfied. Not too many changes are really necessary I hope this makes you think a little bit. If you were in control of a school like this, what would you do about the environment of your
Why is this a problem? Cafeteria food is often cheap, bought in bulk, high in calories, malnutritious, and microwaved. Student polls and opinions prove this. Therefore, this leads to a suggestion: Healthier, tastier foods and a better, more advanced lunch system should be implemented. First of all, students aren’t motivated to eat unhealthy, not-tasty food.