School Lunches Research Paper

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Imagine being in the lunch line at school, your stomach is grumbling, your mouth is dry, and you can not wait to get something to eat. Then when you get up into the serving area, slap a piece of thin and dry turkey on your tray. Immediately, your excitement is non-existent, and you leave lunch still hungry. School lunches tend to be very bland and plain in the sense that they serve many of the same things over and over again. Many of the foods are often burnt, not cooked enough, or simply just do not taste good because they are pre-frozen and just heated up. If only students could leave school during their lunch period to get what they want to eat. Students should be able to leave school for lunch and get the food they desire, especially when …show more content…

Raider Nation Chronicle states that, “if they abuse the rules more than three times they lose the privilege,” (Ibarra). This could prevent students from returning on time or skipping the rest of the school day. Another major concern with letting students go out for lunch is that they could cause havoc within the community, disrespect people, and litter when no one is looking. Students tend to act differently when around their friends, just to try and impress them and make them laugh or make them think they are cool. A possible solution for this is to have the food dealers watch out for the kids to be misbehaving, and if they catch them then they can report them to the school. This would also result in a loss of privileges in order to go out to eat. The final problem with letting students go out to eat is if they get hurt or get in trouble, then they have no way of contacting them. For example, if one of the students got into a car accident and did not return to school, then the school would not know what happened to the student. This can be resolved by making sure the students put their contact information on the sign out …show more content…

There are many reasons why students would like to leave school for lunch. One reason includes the fact that it offers a time of socialization for the students. Students could choose to go with their friends to go out for lunch, or they could choose to go to the same place to eat. This would result in socialization of the student with their friends, which they might not get throughout the school day if they have different classes. Relating back to the fact that students would clear their minds of school for 45-50 minutes and come back engaged to learn. As well as socialization, many students simply do not like school lunches. This could be due to the fact that they are overcooked, undercooked, or it just does not taste good. A school newspaper did research and they concluded that, “School lunch is notoriously bad due to the fact that it doesn’t taste good, has a limited menu, and oftentimes consists of uncooked food,” (Yearwood). Therefore, students don’t want to eat school lunches because they are gross most of the time. Lastly, students want to leave school for lunch because they get to choose what they want to

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