Milpitas High School currently has a closed campus policy that does not allow students to freely leave the campus during break. This policy is an irrational solution to a lot of the problems that this school and its students face during lunch.
First, the school does not do an adequate job at providing food for all of its students. The lines at the cafeteria can take forever and by the time people get their food, lunch can be over. Majority of teachers on campus also do not allow kids to eat in class so they will end up wasting money on food and being deprived of their lunch. The amount of food available is also pretty scarce. I often find the cafeteria running out of the only good food to which I am then forced to eat the other bland
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stuff they offer.The lack of good food also cause certain people to opt out of eating lunch entirely; especially if you’re vegetarian and the only food left contains meat. This is negatively affecting the health of the students. There are also not enough places to sit at during lunch and a lot of students are forced to sit on the floor. Having an open campus can help alleviate this problem by allowing students to leave the school. The school could buy more benches and food for the students, or they can save money and allow students to leave the campus during lunch. This can reduce stress on our school to provide food for its students and it will also increase the amount of business that nearby restaurants receive. Also, let’s be honest, the nutrition policy that our lunches have is doing more harm than good.
You can’t force teenagers into eating healthier food.Instead, they are more likely to opt out of lunch entirely or just buy a bag of Munchies from the vending machine because the food the school offers is pretty bad. If we allow an open campus, students can go home and eat healthy food there, or they can go to nearby restaurants and at least obtain a full meal. The food that the school already offers isn’t particularly healthy anyways. Majority of students only eat the nachos, pizza, burgers, or burrito bowls. They don’t even bother to take a fruit or vegetable with …show more content…
them. One could argue that having an open campus will make students arrive to class late and the lines will just increase at nearby businesses. However, this is not taking into account that many students will end up eating lunch at home or that a lot of people also have cars so they can go to other stores and back before lunch ends. If time is really an issue,then lunch can always extend into SSR. The benefits that the schools and students receive with this policy and the amount of money that we save outweighs the minimal benefits that SSR offers. Now, the school could always improve their lunches or add more benches, but this will cost a lot of money and time.
A plethora of benches would need to be bought in order to make sure that every students feels comfortable on campus during lunch. Then, you have to factor in the cost and time of hiring people to implement them in an appropriate place. The lunches at this school will also need to be drastically improved. The cafeteria needs to expand so that the lines move faster and more food needs to be available to accommodate the growing population. The lunch itself also needs to be more appetizing and nutritious. All of these changes will cost the school an immense amount of money. An open campus policy, however, can solve all these issues for free and actually save the school money in the
process. Having an open campus clearly benefits everyone. The health of students can improve because they will actually have an opportunity to eat a full meal everyday with more varieties and options available. The school will save money on food and benches since less students will be eating on campus. Nearby businesses will increase their profits due to the amount of students buying lunch at their store. Less strain will also be placed on security guards during lunch time to monitor the students and make sure they don’t leave campus. Until the school can figure out a way to accommodate the needs of the growing population, an open campus is clearly the easiest and most efficient solution for everyone involved.
Walk onto any college campus or any other type of school campus and you will see many students that are either obese or close to being obese. Many cafeterias serve healthy foods and non-healthy foods. Schools came up with the rule that you can’t check out lunch without a fruit or vegetable. The only problem is that most students end up taking them and end up wasting them by throwing them away. Considering I am a college student, I understand the challenge of eating unhealthy when I am trying to eat healthier. Overall, I know that if I don 't start eating healthier soon I could end up gaining a lot of weight and become obese. For this research project, I decided to ask, what can be done about the problem of obesity in our country? This question
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
When you walk into the student union or the Keathly University Center some of the first things to catch your eye will be Panda Express, Chik Fil A and a few other chain restaurants as long with many small stores with and endless supply of snacks. These are the choices allowed to the students on campus. Where many live on campus and do not have transportation, or they do not have the financial support to go out, so they are forced to dine on campus. While it is any kids dream to have a famous chain restaurant like McDonald’s in their backyard the practicality of such is slim to none, but with the advances society has made it is not only a possibility but a way of life on a college campus. An alternative to these food choices should be available for students. Fast food is not healthy food and right now our health is a big factor in our grades. If you want to be successful in school than you have to make sure all other aspects of your life are also in order, your health being one of the most important. According to the Huffington Post they do not have enough healthy choices for us to choose from. If you give an eighteen year old the option to choose between a ...
To begin, the high school principles and the school district can put restrictions on who’s allowed to leave the campus for lunch. The student’s parents make the ultimate decision of whether they will allow their child to go off-campus for lunch. In order for students to go off-campus, they will need to have a written consent slip filled out by their parents and handed in to the office, as well as a pass when leaving campus. The students who are continuously tardy or absent should not be allowed to have this privilege. If the students are allowed to have off-campus lunch, so should the staff members. Although they’re staff they shouldn’t be treated any different, they should at least have a pass for leaving campus. Most importantly the students of Oak Creek High School should be at least 16 years of age, and must have good grades with a GPA of at least 2.8 or higher. Plus the school resource officers (SRO) may stop and question the students, at any time.
The right to the student should be guaranteed to open campus lunch. We are living in a failed experiment, that is the government controlling the school lunch. It is time to step out of the failed experiment and do another experiment, only this time successful. Student should be allowed to have open campus lunch.
Wandering kids. Bumper to bumper traffic. Drug dealing. Is this the picture drawn when local students have fifty minutes of freedom during lunch to do whatever they please? Students should not be allowed to leave their school campus during lunch. An open campus would lead to truancy, disturb local businesses and neighborhoods, and cause crime.
For the majority of high school students having the option to go home for lunch or to go somewhere to eat would be the ultimate dream. High school students do not think about the dangers and worry that open campus lunch would cause for staff and parents. They do not think about the small sum of students who would spend that time doing drugs or making messes at local businesses. There would also be an amount of students who would not return, or they may be late returning to school due to traffic at fast food places. Faculty would also have the fret of an increase of car accidents caused from the limited time students would have to go wherever and get back before their next class. On the other hand, students would learn responsibilities and time management. Parents would be forced to give their children money to eat out. Along with the money on their school lunch accounts, or they would be apart of the free lunch school program. Schools cannot have open campus lunches
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...
Every student in all grades were able to leave during the time a scheduled class did not occupy. (Saslow, Linda. “Schools split on “open campus” NYtimes.com). Open campus lunch is the allowance of high school students to leave off the premises to a local restaurant for the duration of lunch. School districts in America have opposed open campus lunch benefits due to common knowledge and concern for potential student endangerment. A reason why schools should change educational environment would be to accommodate what students’ need to create comfortable working conditions. Old school methods included the repetitive process of helping students through daily material every day of the week with one break. Off campus school lunch was an unknown factor to high schools back
Some dining locations are open past 8:00 PM several nights of the week on-campus. However, many of these eating facilities are relatively unknown to a large portion of the underclassmen. Most are located under dorms and hidden from the student’s eyes. They are also incapable of holding a large amount of students simply because they don’t have the room.
Even though a fear of the cafeteria ladies is that they will not know how much food to make each day, students should bring their own lunch and the teachers can create a system to solve this problem. The staff believes that if students bring sack lunches every day, or change it every other day, then they will not be able to prepare the right amount of food. This problem can be solved in many ways though. At Lost Creek Elementary, we highlighted our names on the attendance sheet if we wanted to eat the school lunch the next day. This could easily be changed a little bit to a high school setting. The first period teacher can take attendance like usual and then ask everyone if they will be eating today’s lunch, or tomorrow's lunch. Whatever choice works better for the cafeteria. That way, the staff knows about how many to cook for. Each day, the teacher can announce what the next lunch is going to be, so students can prepare and decide if they want to eat that lunch or not. Another way to guess how many kids to cook for is to take a count of how many students eat that lunch each time. They can keep track of how many kids eat that meal and use it to estimate the amount for the next time. Hoops exchanged information about how she keeps production records of how many kids she fed that day and how much food she made. That would be similar to what they could
On campus, this problem does result in leaving students hungry. They are seen scarfing down their food after arriving 10 minutes late to class, because the cafeteria was going to close for the rest of the day. Student's stomachs are heard growling, which disturbs the class when in full concentration. Hungry students then do not pay attention in class and causes a domino affect in others stomachs growling, leaving and going between classes, and other disturbances.
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.
Schools have a responsibility to provide healthy food choices and not just the cheapest ones (which usually happens to be the unhealthy kind). The majority of schools have contracts with unhealthy food suppliers. Most of the budget usually goes to funding sports. What the school boards do not realize is that eating healthy is a crucial part of staying fit, and if the school districts were to pick healthier food suppliers they would see that local food suppliers would gladly provide them these choices, as it is good business for them.
When one goes away to college, their life changes dramatically. They are forced to make changes in their own lives in order to adapt to college life. When one is in high school and living at home, their eating habits and personal hygiene practices are for the most part controlled by their parents. They are told what to eat and when to eat it. They are told to keep their room clean and to take their vitamins, etc. When one moves away to college, they are on their own. There is no one telling them to clean their room, or to do laundry or what they have to eat. In some colleges and universities, it is required that freshmen live on campus and eat at least two meals a day in the dining hall. This isn't necessarily for the university to monitor a student's eating habits but rather to get the student acquainted with the campus and other people living there. Food served in college dining halls has not been known for it's nutritional value. However, over the past couple of years college chefs have been working to change that. While a lot of students have committed to eating the healthier foods and trying to stay healthy, the vast majority lives on pizza and taco bell or any other cheap fast food chain that is open until the late hours of the night. College is a fast paced environment and fast food caters to college students. In this fast paced environment, students more often than not neglect their health and personal hygiene and the consequences range from obesity to deadly eating disorders.