School Lunch Proposal Essay
Angelynn Lagos Mrs. Esguerra
ERWC Period 3
10 February 2014
Proposal
Independence High School, located in San Jose, California is known to be the largest high school in the East Side Union High District. It consist over 3,000 students per year, and yet only 31% of the student population has free-reduced lunch, according to High-Schools.com. But what the school of Independence serves for not only free-reduced lunch students but for non-reduced lunch students is not as nutritional as it seems. I believe the school lunch program at Independence does not truly meet to the nutritional standards; it should be altered to make the students healthier and more educated of what they put into their bodies on a daily basis.
Under the school lunch program here at Independence, those who qualify for a free-reduced lunch for breakfast or lunch are served with a meal containing the entrée, such as a “Breakfast pizza” or Spaghetti with the side of milk or juice and sometimes with an occasional fruit. And for the non-free reduced lunch students, they can purchase anything from a corn dog, a chimichanga, to a chocolate cookie with a high-sugared Gatorade for breakfast or lunch. Last time I checked, that is not a proper healthy breakfast. …show more content…
Unfortunately, very little of that $9 billion dollars, given by the Department of Agriculture, was not given towards the food. It was mainly given towards the custodial services. This is very upsetting; this program is supposed to help feed millions of students, when instead it fails to meet the proper nutritional guidelines because it contains the same ingredients founded in fast foods. Students cannot be expected to be well aware of what is healthy and not healthy if they are given poor nutritional meals at Independence. It is a given that they will repeat the same action of consuming high-sugared drinks and processed foods at
ERWC Period 3
10 February 2014
Proposal
Independence High School, located in San Jose, California is known to be the largest high school in the East Side Union High District. It consist over 3,000 students per year, and yet only 31% of the student population has free-reduced lunch, according to High-Schools.com. But what the school of Independence serves for not only free-reduced lunch students but for non-reduced lunch students is not as nutritional as it seems. I believe the school lunch program at Independence does not truly meet to the nutritional standards; it should be altered to make the students healthier and more educated of what they put into their bodies on a daily basis.
Under the school lunch program here at Independence, those who qualify for a free-reduced lunch for breakfast or lunch are served with a meal containing the entrée, such as a “Breakfast pizza” or Spaghetti with the side of milk or juice and sometimes with an occasional fruit. And for the non-free reduced lunch students, they can purchase anything from a corn dog, a chimichanga, to a chocolate cookie with a high-sugared Gatorade for breakfast or lunch. Last time I checked, that is not a proper healthy breakfast. …show more content…
Unfortunately, very little of that $9 billion dollars, given by the Department of Agriculture, was not given towards the food. It was mainly given towards the custodial services. This is very upsetting; this program is supposed to help feed millions of students, when instead it fails to meet the proper nutritional guidelines because it contains the same ingredients founded in fast foods. Students cannot be expected to be well aware of what is healthy and not healthy if they are given poor nutritional meals at Independence. It is a given that they will repeat the same action of consuming high-sugared drinks and processed foods at