American School Lunches Flaws

One of the most controversial issues today is the question of how to address childhood obesity. Because of the large proportion of meals that children, particularly low-income children, consume in schools, cafeteria food has been targeted by dietary reformers as in need of a major overhaul. However, while many different types of new school menus have been proposed, the extent to which healthier foods can be offered remains controversial. Opponents to reform state that children will not eat healthier lunches, and that changing the food that children eat will have minimal impact, since the children will either bring food from home or eat food at home that is more 'kid friendly.'

HELP! I'm dying!... because school lunches are cringing! Students should be allowed to leave class during lunch hours, and be trusted to leave and return back in time for their next class. If high schools gave students this right it would teach them how to manage their time wisely and it would help them become responsible. Students who leave campus during lunch are most likely end up going to a local business to get their lunch which is both good for the students and the local businesses. Students with special food allergies could leave campus during lunch and go to their homes and get food they could actually eat and not be worried that their food could have been cross contaminated to something they're allergic to. Students who leave campus during lunch would come back energized and ready for their next classes.

Students could leave campus, get food, and be back for time given from the school. If students could leave campus to get either a restaurant, get food at home or a fast food restaurant the food would be so much better than the schools food. Students could go to a small restaurant tor a diner. Students could go home and make their selves food. They could go to fast foods restaurants around the area such as McDonald’s, Hardee’s, or Subway. As long as students are back within the amount of time given students should be able to leave campus to get food. School lunches are not healthy for students most of the time. You do not know what the food they are serving you is half the time. If students were allowed to leave school for lunch it would give them a little bit of freedom for an hour. If they could leave campus for lunch it gives them a chance to have a break from their classes. Many students tend to fall asleep in class, if they could have an hour lunch break they could go home eat and rest for a little while. Students may feel trapped staying in one place for 8 hours. Many students also get bored sitting in classes for so long leaving for lunch give them the chance to move around and get out of

Picture this: you are in study hall and you come back from Pre-Ap Biology because you needed help. You glance up to look at the clock and remember your Algebra homework, so you have to zoom through it. The bell rings right when you finish! You triumphantly open up your book bag to put it away. Then you spot your wretched English and Spanish homework crumpled up at the bottom. Amidst the fury and anger you realize that you still have an after school tutor meetup. After that, you have to rush to football practice. All of these homework troubles could be avoided if lunch and study hall were a bit longer. There are a ton of reasons that lunch and study hall should be longer, but there are a few critical reasons that you should know about. Study hall and lunch should be longer because people need more time to work and to see teachers for help on work. A reason that lunch should be longer is so that students can have more time to socialize.

How much time do you usually take to eat lunch? A half an hour maybe more? Well, at the Mount Pleasant High School, we get around five minutes. Saying were rushed is an understatement, at the least. The amount of time we get, from the first bell, to the ending bell, we have "20 minute." By the time we actually get to start eating, there's five minutes left. I think the Mt. Pleasant High School should have a longer lunch period, because collectively all around it helps staff and students.

Do you feel rushed at lunchtime and don’t have enough time to eat your lunch, well I have a solution, longer lunch.

How would you like it if the lunch lines weren’t so full but your students all had a filled stomach? Well I honestly believe that if you gave only 11th and 12th graders the opportunity to leave campus for lunch and it would make everyone’s life easier.

The number 1 problem at pilot grove school district is not having longer lunch periods.This is a big problem because the lunch shifts now are too short and kids can’t eat enough to not go hungry throughout the day.Also, we students don't get the time to talk to our friends in class so lunch is the only time to talk to each other and it's very difficult to talk if your stuffing food in your mouth at the same time and watching the clock and get ready to go to our next class. I also hear about other schools around the country are having 45 minute lunch shifts or longer.Therefore, since those schools get to have that long to eat a talk, we should to we could

When I say time, I mean students getting to school on time, classes starting on time and transition time between classes. For some classes there is about a 10 minute gap between when class actually starts and when class is supposed to start according to the schedule. This leaves a lot of “free time” in between certain classes or inside of a classroom without nothing going on because the teacher has not started instructional time. As a student I love it, but as a principle I would feel as though the school is losing productivity with a teacher just sitting in another room or not even being there at all while the students loiter or just aimlessly wonder through the hallways or sit in front of the door. Another thing I find to be interesting is how some students leave during lunch to make sure they get to class on time while the teacher is still down the hill in the main building, I don’t take that class but what do the students do while they are up there and their teacher is down here? Do they go into the class room and just sit up there by themselves? Or do they do the same thing some of the students in the RVEC building do and just sit outside door. As a student I don’t know what goes on like that, but as a principle I would think that is another way lunch time transitions can be better managed so that the students and teachers are where they need to be when class needs to

Have you ever had a child stay up all night just trying to finish assignments? Should students lunch and recess be longer? I think so. The kids would have more time to take a break from class and calm down so their not so stressed during class. They wouldn’t have to take in so much information at one time and would be able to remember more of what the teacher is trying to teach them.

On a warm sunny day at Palm Desert Middle School, I was having fun playing tag with my fellow students and friends during lunch, when suddenly we were called in to sit back in the cafeteria. Time had seemed to have just flown by. I had barely any time to finish my lunch. Because of all this, I feel that we should have a six to twelve minute longer lunch.

In numerous incidences around the country schools have reportedly denied their students school lunches because their lunch accounts are overdrawn in some cases by only a couple dollars (Green). Also, traditional packed lunches are under fire, in part, because some administrators who feel that the lunches are not nutritious enough for students have banned them (Eng, Hood). Because some school children are going hungry and have no other means of obtaining a meal during the school day, the school lunch program needs to take additional measures to ensure that the needs of all US students are being met.

Many public school students on average only get about 20 minutes or less to eat there lunch. Because of that about 1/4 of students lunches will not get eaten and it will get thrown away. School lunches should be longer for many reasons, but the main reasons that school lunches should be longer is because students would be able to have healthier meals, students who have a longer lunch do better in school and because students would have more time to  socialize with each other. Longer lunches in school would have many benefits for students.

In the fast paced world in which we live one can see the trickle down effect of that pace seaping into our school systems. With the mandates No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) brought to the table in 2002 school districts are finding themselves using every spare minute of the day to prepare students for rigorous standardized tests used to not only determine success of the students but also the school and staff. Schools are trying to squeeze more information in an already busy day. When looking at schedules it is a given that children need to eat, forcing schools to not take lunch away, so the only logical solution is to

Argument Draft Essay I believe that the lunch break should be extended. Firstly, the students will have a good amount of time to rest for class. Secondly, the students can finish their missing assignments. Thirdly, students that don’t make it to lunch should have time to eat.