National School Lunch Case Study
The prices of the given lunches exceed the amount of ailment in schools. Schools are required to provide a set amount of lunch for a set price that some may find unreasonable. Due to the fact that price exceeds quantity, students are refusing to eat. The National School Lunch Program claims to “provide nutritionally balanced, low-cost or free lunches to more than 31 million children each school day,” (National School Lunch Program 1) but do they mean it? Often times the factor of nutrition is questionable in the food provided in school lunches. An example being one day a student who does not possess the benefit of the National School Lunch Program’s free lunch decides to eat the so-called “nutritionally balanced food” (National School Lunch
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Program 1) and notices that the apple that the student is about to bite is desecrated with a bruise. Bruises in apples are not exactly nutritional, that is undisputedly a fact. In other words, the student mentioned before has just purchased a lunch with a bruised apple, meaning he has wasted his money on bad food. This yields negative results. The student may never eat the school’s lunch again, causing the student to eat less, which results in the student being less healthy. For another example similar to the first, a student may decide to not eat the school’s food because of the price not being reasonable enough for the quantity of food. Let us say the school this student attends is Mountain Pine High School. The student has an option to eat a chicken sandwich and a salad or fruit. In comparison to the price, the student can go to another place to eat food for the same price yet receive a full meal which makes a much more fulfilling pleasure than only a sandwich and a salad or fruit. This will result in the student choosing to not eat at the school. There can yet again be another reason why the National School Lunch Program is not as beneficial as they claim. What about the students who need more than others to satisfy their hunger? While some students may find the quantity of food given by the school to be satisfying, the students who undoubtedly eat more are less satisfied. The schools may not give enough food for the students who eat more, causing them to stay hungry. When the students are hungry, they do not have enough energy. When the students do not have enough energy, their brains are not at full function. When their brains are not at full function, they do not do as well in school. Furthermore, the National School Lunch Program is yet problematic. One may lack the knowledge of the required cost of the food allocated for students going to school.
One can evaluate the cost of school lunches by subtracting the price that the National School Lunch Program pays for when a student gets a free lunch, which is $2.93, (National School Lunch Program 2) by the amount they pay when a student pays for a lunch, which is $0.28 (National School Lunch Program 20). One would conclude the answer to be $2.65. What person would pay what would be rounded up to approximately three dollars for a measly sandwich, roll, and potatoes that are usually the “healthy” kind [“healthy foods” being used as “whole foods” which is known to be costly. Thus, the nickname “whole check” (The High Cost of Healthy Food 2)] when you can get three delicious chicken sandwiches for almost the same price at McDonald’s right down the street? One may confirm the fact that it is healthy because it is quoted right from school nutrition.org. “School meals are healthy meals that are required to meet the Dietary Guidelines for Americans” (School Nutrition 1). The National School Lunch Program should allow an additional point of interest in their school lunches such as additional food, otherwise the cost is not worth it for students who have to pay for their
meals. One may be reading this and ponder on how this may affect everyone. Let us say that there is a person named Bill who just got out of school when the prices of school lunches just went haywire. Bill thinks that he does not have to worry about it but that is where he is wrong. Later in life Bill decides to have children. What will come of Bill’s children when they can not eat due to the prices of lunch being so high? Bill is unemployed and does not have a means of transportation to get him to work so Bill’s kids have to go through school without eating, due to the fact that the National School Lunch Program has the price so high. If any person decides to have kids, if they do not obtain the ability to get lunches for free for their children, they have to deal with the National School Lunch Program’s unintended mistake. Some people may be at a perturbation state at the fact that the National School Lunch Program does not affect everyone. Unless one is an apathetic self-righteous, selfish person then they would care about others. The National School Lunch Program mostly affects children, so most people should care.
Program 1) and notices that the apple that the student is about to bite is desecrated with a bruise. Bruises in apples are not exactly nutritional, that is undisputedly a fact. In other words, the student mentioned before has just purchased a lunch with a bruised apple, meaning he has wasted his money on bad food. This yields negative results. The student may never eat the school’s lunch again, causing the student to eat less, which results in the student being less healthy. For another example similar to the first, a student may decide to not eat the school’s food because of the price not being reasonable enough for the quantity of food. Let us say the school this student attends is Mountain Pine High School. The student has an option to eat a chicken sandwich and a salad or fruit. In comparison to the price, the student can go to another place to eat food for the same price yet receive a full meal which makes a much more fulfilling pleasure than only a sandwich and a salad or fruit. This will result in the student choosing to not eat at the school. There can yet again be another reason why the National School Lunch Program is not as beneficial as they claim. What about the students who need more than others to satisfy their hunger? While some students may find the quantity of food given by the school to be satisfying, the students who undoubtedly eat more are less satisfied. The schools may not give enough food for the students who eat more, causing them to stay hungry. When the students are hungry, they do not have enough energy. When the students do not have enough energy, their brains are not at full function. When their brains are not at full function, they do not do as well in school. Furthermore, the National School Lunch Program is yet problematic. One may lack the knowledge of the required cost of the food allocated for students going to school.
One can evaluate the cost of school lunches by subtracting the price that the National School Lunch Program pays for when a student gets a free lunch, which is $2.93, (National School Lunch Program 2) by the amount they pay when a student pays for a lunch, which is $0.28 (National School Lunch Program 20). One would conclude the answer to be $2.65. What person would pay what would be rounded up to approximately three dollars for a measly sandwich, roll, and potatoes that are usually the “healthy” kind [“healthy foods” being used as “whole foods” which is known to be costly. Thus, the nickname “whole check” (The High Cost of Healthy Food 2)] when you can get three delicious chicken sandwiches for almost the same price at McDonald’s right down the street? One may confirm the fact that it is healthy because it is quoted right from school nutrition.org. “School meals are healthy meals that are required to meet the Dietary Guidelines for Americans” (School Nutrition 1). The National School Lunch Program should allow an additional point of interest in their school lunches such as additional food, otherwise the cost is not worth it for students who have to pay for their
meals. One may be reading this and ponder on how this may affect everyone. Let us say that there is a person named Bill who just got out of school when the prices of school lunches just went haywire. Bill thinks that he does not have to worry about it but that is where he is wrong. Later in life Bill decides to have children. What will come of Bill’s children when they can not eat due to the prices of lunch being so high? Bill is unemployed and does not have a means of transportation to get him to work so Bill’s kids have to go through school without eating, due to the fact that the National School Lunch Program has the price so high. If any person decides to have kids, if they do not obtain the ability to get lunches for free for their children, they have to deal with the National School Lunch Program’s unintended mistake. Some people may be at a perturbation state at the fact that the National School Lunch Program does not affect everyone. Unless one is an apathetic self-righteous, selfish person then they would care about others. The National School Lunch Program mostly affects children, so most people should care.