Should School Lunches Be Allowed In Schools

Childhood Obesity. I do not believe that School Lunch Programs encourage poor nutrition. Yes, most school lunches aren’t desirable and may look like globs of inedible items that are pureed, heated and served with unripened fruit, but they are not at fault for poor eating habits.

School lunches are required to meet the minimum government nutrition standards, but that actually costs more than the profit made when distributing said lunches to students. As a means to make more money to avoid falling into debt, convenience foods are sold next to the healthy foods. The president of the School Nutrition Association, Katie Wilson, states “ Schools can either provide only healthy foods and go into debt, or allow unhealthy options… a contributing factor to weight gain.”(Bornstein 2.)

If schools what student to eat healthy why do they sell junk food? It is clear that if schools want kids to eat healthy,

While educating students on healthy nutrition may have some good results in younger children, it does not completely put a stop to the dispute. Even if children are educated on nourishment, some may still choose the unhealthy stuff. It’s like knowing you have to work on a project but you still procrastinate till the very end. Fruits are obviously the better choice in a healthy diet but children still pick the slice of cake because it's sweeter. Furthermore, most children bring their lunches from home which can consist of a whole cesspool of junk. Although younger children do learn some eating habits at school, the majority of their manners come from the parents. What kids pack for lunch is a portion of what they eat at home. The most common foods I’ve come to notice are ramen noodles, chips, cookies, soda and many others. If schools are supposedly teaching healthy eating habits, then the bad ones must come from none other than the guardians. Therefore, schools are not fully at fault for poor consumption