Cause And Effect Essay About School Lunches

School lunches are often portrayed in the media as gross, inedible, and served by a staff that couldn’t care less about their students. However exaggerated this may be, there’s no denying that there are problems in the American school lunch system, and the causes of these problems tend to be students themselves. Take, for example, the students at Kennedy Middle School. It was a day like any other for them, busy talking to friends or buying food from their school’s snack line. But for the staff running that line, it was a different story entirely. Someone had stolen food again, and they had no idea who. One staff member reported finding empty containers of food as she was setting up a new display for students. In total, three cookies were stolen, a loss worth almost three dollars. More importantly than that was the fact that this was far from an isolated incident.
Whatever the reason is, it needs to stop, as well as the attitude that some students have toward it. Although it may not impact them personally, it impacts the schools, which may need that money for funding. According to the National Association for Shoplifting Prevention, “shoplifting affects more than the offender. It overburdens the police and the courts, adds to a store’s security expenses, costs consumers more for goods…” (NASP, n/a). In this case, the ones being affected by stealing or shoplifting are not the police, but school officials. Regardless, the impact on these people remains the same.
If the problem continues, there’s no way of knowing how this will impact schools financially, not to mention the national school lunch program. So, work to solve it simply. If you see or hear of students trying to take food without paying, or trying to take anything for that matter, report them. Improve upon a flawed system, rather than taking advantage of