On September 20th, school lunch worker, Stacy Koltiska, quit her job after refusing a student his hot lunch. The school district in Canon-McMillan, Pennsylvania began a new lunch system this fall stating that if a student is $25 or more in debt with the school that they will not receive their standard hot lunch.…
How would a student feel if they knew that the USDA allowed the school to provide meals which could make them unhealthy, or even sick? Lunch, as most know, is a very important part of a student’s school day. The food eaten at lunch should provide enough energy to complete the school day as a focused, learning student, and, for some students, to get through after school activities such as athletics and clubs; however, it is being seen more and more often that this is not the case. Chatham County Schools needs to improve its school lunches because the quantity, quality, and cost ratios are inadequate for the success of their students.…
Students may spend time with others who they may not see if the lunch was confined to on campus. Students can go out and eat with friends.…
Recently there has been revisions to the National School Lunch Program (NSLP) and schools were required to overhaul their entire menus to provide the students with healthy and nutritious foods including fruits and vegetables. The new school lunch rules are part of the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010 which has been implemented this fall. (Post Standard) The Hunger Act allows the USDA the opportunity to make reforms to the school lunch and breakfast programs. With these revisions come strict guidelines from the federal government that each school district must follow in order to receive funding and reimbursement (National School Lunch Program, 2012, August p. 1). In this essay i will be comparing the positive and negative effects of these recent revisions to the NSLP. I will then discuss whether or not these changes are beneficial to the children receiving the meal and whether NSLP is leaving children hungry or helping children make healthy food choices.…
I believe that high schools should have open lunches. Students should be able to leave the school grounds and go to a fast food restaurant, or, if they choose should at least be able to go outside and eat. Students need to have a small break from school during the day, even if they are outside, they still can take their minds off of school work for a while. Students need to have fresh air and adequate sunlight. Fresh air and sunlight is a proven fact to help students in their studies and it also helps the students concentrate more. I understand that the school staff would not like the fact that the students would be able to leave campus without supervision. Are not the students in high school? Should we not have the responsibility to be able…
The United States performs a variety of functions to help people not stable enough to help themselves. Federal Programs such as social security, Medicare, Medicaid and school lunch. Social security set up economic security for millions of Americans retirees, disabled persons, and families of retired, disabled or deceased workers. Social security established in the United States in 1935 in the year 1965 Social Security Amendments which established Medicare and Medicaid, promising that they would "improve a range of health and medical services for Americans of all ages. The National School Lunch Program is a federally assisted meal program operating in public and nonprofit private schools and residential child care institutions. It provides…
Causing students to feel like the are still in elementary school is not a good way to start them towards their college career. The school shows no faith in their students and their ability to leave school for lunch.…
Imagine trying to make yourself lunch everyday using only $2.95 This is what schools are forced to do on a daily basis in order to feed thousands of children. Schools have to be able to create a lunch for children that will satisfy their hunger, using only almost $3 per child. How can we expect our children to be getting the proper and nutritional food with such a small budget? Why aren't we doing more to to make sure the kids in our country are eating healthy meals while away from home? How can we make sure the students will react positive to healthier school lunches after being exposed to such unhealthy food for so long? There are so many questions to be asked and many answers to be given. I think we need to focus more attention on this dilemma because these kids are our future, and we need to make sure our future is as healthy physically and mentally as can be. Imagine trying to make yourself lunch everyday using only $2.95 This is what schools are forced to do on a daily basis in order to feed thousands of children. Schools have to be able to create a lunch for children that will satisfy their hunger, using only almost $3 per child. How can we expect our children to be getting the proper and nutritional food with such a small budget? Why aren't we doing more to to make sure the kids in our country are eating healthy meals while away from home? How can we make sure the students will react positive to healthier school lunches after being exposed to such unhealthy food for so long? There are so many questions to be asked and many answers to be given. I think we need to focus more attention on this dilemma because these kids are our future, and we need to make sure our future is as healthy physically and mentally as can be. Imagine trying to make yourself lunch everyday using only $2.95 This is what schools are forced to do on a daily basis in order to feed thousands of children. Schools have to be able to create a lunch for children that will satisfy their hunger,…
These students would easily be able to exit the school during the lunch period and stay at their home for the remainder of the school day due to how they can leave without anyone caring or thinking much of it. People would assume they would be coming back at the end of lunch, so there wouldn’t be much inquiry about where the students were going and when they would be returning back for their classes. Many students believe that school is stressful and boring; and so countless students given this kind of chance to escape from the school would take advantage of the open campus by not returning back for class. Many other students may see how others are ditching classes and so feel inclined to ditch too. Students skipping class would be an enormous problem with the open campus system and is a prime example of why an open campus system can easily be taken advantage of and so is not a good…
It is the beginning of the school year and there are numerous changes at Stillwater Area High School that are now being implemented such as the new lunch schedule. With this new lunch schedule it adds an additional lunch giving us four lunches and cuts the normal lunch time of 30 minutes to 25 and here's why.…
The national school lunch policies has been a topic of conversation for a number of years but has recently been getting to a critical level of low nutrition school lunches are let's be honest some what sub par in the healthy factor with the government funding, high blood pressure in minors, national school lunch program, and nutritional value of food.…
Unpaid school lunch bills are becoming a problem for most schools, but it looks like the Upshur County Board of Education has found a solution that could work. Parents with unpaid school lunch bills are being banned from their teen’s graduation ceremonies until the debts are settled. But is it fair for schools to deny parents of the right to see their children graduate over unpaid school lunches?…
Today I’m going to be explaining why upperclassmen should have the option of an open campus lunch period. Now you may have some misgivings about this idea. Things such as no way of controlling who is leaving the school grounds, the cost of buying food, and the safety of those behind the wheel. But these are false presumptions that are made about open or off-campus lunch.…
It is a YouTube sensation. A video made by high school teens titled We Are Hungry is an exaggerated but necessary cry for a change. In the tune of hit song We Are Young the video depicts teens falling asleep during class and slumping to the floor during sports practices. As silly as the video gets at times it boils down to one thing. There needs to be a change. School lunches need to have more calories and bigger portions to support the growing bodies of the children and teens eating them.…
The hallways are stretched to accommodate the classes that thousands of high school students use in order to obtain a proper education. Even within history, these two countries differed in their teachings. During 1647, the United States utilized education to have Puritan Children read the Bible and learn about their Calvinist religion (Historical Timeline of….1), while Japan during the 1600s, focused more on Chinese literature and writing (JICA 1). These two countries also differed historically, in respect to when they demolished the division in catering education towards the wealthy rather than commoners. During the late 16th century the United States catered secondary education to the wealthy part of their society (From There to Here…1),…