Should School Lunch be Extended? The amount of time we have to eat school lunch is 20 minutes, and it’s surely not enough for students to maintain a healthy body full of different nutrients. If you were limited in time during lunch, how would you feel? You can’t even choose healthy and delicious items at the same time. So why do students of Madisonville’s schools receive a limited time affecting our quality of food, our bodies to digest, and the waste of the school’s money? To begin, the time impacts the quality of the food choices. With the time given, 20 minutes is not a lot if you really think about it. The website, ‘edweek’, states, “Students receive significantly larger portions of fruits and vegetables with each meal and more of these …show more content…
According to the Harris Schools Solution website, a Harvard professor affirms, “... Students are too often consuming fast foods and drinks as quickly as possible as time dwindles during their lunch period. So most students from our school mostly skip the vegetables. This does not in any way benefit the students' health. Also, the Your King County website, claims that, “Children often eat the food they like first, such as processed or sugary foods rather than vegetables.” Due to having a short lunchtime that gives the students no other choice, but to eat what they want and be at least glad they ate what they wanted. But again, this is unhealthy for students, especially when we go through this process five times a week. Added to that, the second reason is that the lunchtime isn’t long enough for students to digest properly and be full. When given a short period to eat for lunch, it affects not only our body but also our academics. Let’s say you run out of lunchtime and you’re still hungry, then your stomach tends to growl and you lose focus on
Having different food can affect a child health. There are milky ways, cake, cookies, pizza and lets just add some French fries in there and call that lunch. Don’t forget the drink sweet tea, pop and milk that one doesn’t choose to drink it. The students would go back to the class rooms after twenty minutes and be hungry at the end of the da. Garland said, “Instead, we allow school cafeterias to dispense the same junk food that kids could buy in any mall” (621). There has been so much junk food and soft drinks in schools that makes the student health unsafe and a distraction to their education. Garland mentioned that the students are filling up with fat, salt and sugar rather than filling up with fruit, whole grains and vegetables. Schools should be about healthiness, and well balanced diets. With having Students eat healthy can boost up their energy and ability to learn. With that being said when I was in high school it was nothing but junk food for three years. When Michele Obama changed the law on the school lunches my senior lunches have changed. It was nothing but healthy food like whole grain, no sweets, two scoops of fruits and vegetables. At Odessa they had a school store loaded with junk food that would be sold out by forth period. When the law came to the school there was nothing but baked chip and replaced with other baked nutrition food or we had nothing at all. The drink machines were changed out
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...
One reason our school should get a new lunch menu is 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.” In other words, the food is not delicious and there are not many choices. Also, when children don’t get proper nutrition they have trouble focusing in school. Most students do not buy lunch because they feel it is unappealing and do not like the food served. Many students go to other kids and ask for food. In addition, many students do not eat breakfast so they rely on lunch to fuel them for the day. But, if they do not like the food served they won’t eat so they starve for the rest of the school day, which can
According to the Journal of Law and Health schools that have not banned junk food have had an increase in students more excited to learn because of the sugar count unhealthy foods. Looking at the evidence regarding school lunches from the USDA (United States Department of Agriculture), students need equal grain and protein proportions to have a healthy daily diet, and over the course of 5 years schools that don't have a healthy lunch program have had their students overall GPA almost completely equivalent to the schools that have had the healthy lunch program. Although having tremendously unhealthy school lunches may not harm your GPA it can immensely harm your health. Lots of average students health are in danger just because of unhealthy school lunches, it is very necessary that schools realize that a healthy lunch program is always a beneficial option. Scientists have found that children who have healthier breakfast and lunch get better grades and have increased brain power. Some evidence points to unhealthy food but healthy food is always the answer in an effective school community. Sometimes unhealthy food is cheaper and tastes better but it can be very costly to your health especially as a
Lunch time is a time to take a break from the day and recharge for the rest of the day. In elementary schools it is also a time to meet up with your friends and socialize. Lunch time is not only time to eat. It is important for the mental, social, and emotional health of the children as well. Children need them chance to unwind and destress, which is promoted by socializing with friends. “Lunch should be an enjoyable part of the school day for students, offering a break from classroom work and a place to relax, socialize, and become nourished.”("The Cafeteria: Creating a Positive Mealtime Experience", 2013) Lunch time should be done in a setting where
We cannot have a school lunch reform where the needs of all students are not met. If only some, or less than the majority, of students are receiving the nutritional values they need, we need to adapt the reform to further achieve better standards for school lunch programs. For example, after a student finishes their meal, schools could offer a second serving of protein to their students. In effect, this will add a higher amount of calories to the students’ daily diets.
If schools serve lunches with whole grains and protein, the students would stay full and attentive much longer than a student with a lunch of sugar, white bread, and lush greens. Although many believe that schools should provide a healthy lunch for students, there is a small percentage who feels that because of the budget cuts, schools should not pay for more expensive and healthier food. Shereen Jegtvig, a nutritionist, wrote "Appleton, Wisconsin replaced their regular poor-quality school lunches with healthy fresh food.changes resulted in improved behavior.... ... middle of paper ... ... 1.
We should not have longer school lunches. Longer school lunches has a great impact on everyone in school, it makes this issue worse. Students need what is best for them, which they already have. Short school lunches helps improve learning skills and lets students comprehend better. Our lunches are good as they are right now. We should not allow students to leave during school lunch.
School Lunch Affordability in Lincoln Problem Description: Many families in the United States struggle to afford school lunches for their children. According to the Education Data Initiative, children who can’t afford proper meals, and therefore lack access to food, are considered food insecure. School lunch debt statistics collected by the Education Data Initiative indicate that 30.4 million students can’t afford their school meals. The national public school meal debt is $262 million a year. Here in Nebraska, the school meal debt is $14,876,022 (Hanson, 2024).
Imagine yourself as a student waiting in a long lunch line. When you finally sit down to enjoy your delicious meal, then the sound of the lunch bell rings and everyone departs to their next class. Every student in Conroe High School should be able to enjoy their meal without feeling rushed. Because of this, students believe it is a great idea to extend the lunch period. It will give students a longer time to eat, socialize, and it will give students a break from classes.
I feel like there should be a change in the school lunch menus. I did some research regarding school lunches and other people agree with the fact that school lunches should be changed. The school meat is very horrific and i feel that it is not safe for students to digest it. For example the government found out ingredients in the chicken sandwich had dozens of ingredients including MSG. MSG is very bad for students because it causes allergic reactions, upsets the stomach, and it causes muscle tightness and fatigue. Toxic GMO or Genetically Modified Organisms are all over school food. The corn that they feed students are mostly GM corn, which the purpose of it is to kill pests by bursting the stomach of bugs who feed on the corn. By letting
I am writing to you to request an extension of our lunch period by 30 minutes. I am requesting this because I feel that our current lunch is too short of a time. Lunch is not only a time for us to eat, but it is also a time for us to connect with friends and make connections. Connection is one of the most important aspects of supporting a student's bright future and with the current lunch time that we have, there is barely any time for students to make friends. On top of that, student connections help bring a sense of belonging to students, and if there’s not a sense of belonging, then our performance in school will be down.
Students Deserve Longer Lunch Hours How many minutes does it take for the body to let a person know that they are full. Unfortunately, students only getting fifteen minutes or less to eat their lunch. People who know kids know that they are always hungry. Lunch is a very important meal to have because it can help students through the rest of the day. Especially for kids who are still growing.
School lunch meals can be absolutely repulsive. Although it may be more expensive to hire more workers, cafeteria food should offer more diverse food options to students because students may be restricted from eating cafeteria food, much of the cafeteria food tends to be unhealthy and student happiness will increase. Much of the food at the cafeteria is inaccessible to students due to religion and other beliefs. Although many religions have restrictions on food, schools typically do not have to accommodate students since students have the option to bring their own lunch from home. (Jade Yeban)
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.