Summary Of School's Out For Summer By Anna Quindlen

“Schools Out for the Summer.”, a short essay by Anna Quindlen, identifies a growing problem in America. Quindlen has presented the problem that when school is not in session an abundance of families aren’t able to provide their children with adequate meals and she uses plenty of examples and solutions to effectively persuade readers.

Whether it’s not sharing the something meaningful with a friend or taking something that never belonged to us, we have all encountered situations where our actions did not match with our behavior. When we are younger and just learning to differentiate the right from the wrong, little mistakes tend to leave us feeling guilty. In the excerpt from the autobiographical narrative, A Summer Life, Gary Soto recreates the experience of stealing pie at age six which left him feeling guilty and shameful, through the use of concrete imagery, contrast, repetition and alteration in pace. Instantly after spotting the pies in the rack at the German market, Soto’s innocent mind had set to steal a pie for him. The short time pleasure of having stolen and possessing

Boarding School Seasons by Brenda J. Child offers a look into the boarding school experiences of many American Indian students. Child favors unpublished sources such as letters to give an uncensored inside look into boarding school experiences. However, she also includes other sources such as school newspapers, oral history collections, photographs, biographies, United States government publications, and annual reports. Government boarding schools were created to help the American government gain more control over Indians and to push the Natives to adopt the white ways of life such as language, skill, and education. While integration was the ultimate objective, Child sets out “to show that even with the challenges of cultural assimilation and a devastating land policy, American Indian people, even children, placed limits on assimilation and also defined and shaped the boarding school era.” (viii) The boarding schools designed to tear American Indian families apart did not succeed in isolating children from their tribes, but created bonds and

In his autobiographical narrative A Summer Life, Gary Soto shares a reminiscent pictorial image of a story of a six-year old boy, which is of himself. A boy that is guilty after stealing a delicious mouthwatering jam-like apple chunky filled pie. This delightful story engages the reader to experience Soto’s emotions of paranoid guilt and forgiveness of oneself. Soto’s description of stealing the pie allows the reader to understand he knows clearly right from wrong. However, he is excited to have the apple pie him self-gratifying guilt is elevated when he disregards his conscious. Soto emphasizes throughout the story his nervous guilt when he shares, “my sweet tooth gleaming and the juice of guilt wetting my underarms.” (10) The tone reflected

David states, “We're not the only ones. A lot of kids are on reduced lunch, or they get it for free. It’s not a big deal.” This quote shows the problem of food insecurity among the families, just like David’s. The effects of food insecurity on David and his family are crazy.

The one thing that we all need is Food. In the U.S. and all over the world there are many people who lack the funds to buy food and millions of starving children. Anna states in her essay that most kids have trouble getting food when school is out because that is the primary source that provides breakfast and lunch. “Summer is really ground zero in the battle to keep kids fed.” (pg 224)

Is school lunch actually feeding America’s children? (1. Rhetorical Question) Today, many students are reporting that they are unsatisfied with their school’s lunch. Strict guidelines set for America’s schools control what exactly is going through cafeterias in order to maintain healthy and happy students. However, students are disappointed in these guidelines and disagree that they are of any benefit. School lunches still lack nutrition, limit food choices and proportions, and neglect appeal. (2. Parallelism)

For many individuals in our Vietnamese community whom grew up in Vietnam, they know what it is like to go hungry for several days due to being unable to buy food. In order to find a better lifestyle for their families, they immigrated to the United States. However, for many families in America, the feeling of hunger is becoming a common occurrence due to being food-insecure. The definition of food insecurity according to the American Institute of Nutrition is “the state of being unable to get reliable access to a sufficient quantity of affordable, nutritious food”. The holidays are supposed to be a time to celebrate, and to share a meal with others. But for a number of families, they’re met with a familiar feeling of hunger. This may cause them to suffer emotionally from being unable to feast at the holidays. Those that are not living on the edge of poverty will not understand how much financial pressure is put on vulnerable families as they relied on schools to provide free meals to their children. The Food & Nutrition Service (FNS) runs a program that covers a portion of low-income children with meals over their summer; there isn’t a national program that covers the holiday break. This puts additional stress on low-income families, as they have to find ways to provide food, along with getting their children cared for. Food insecurity

In Lynda Barry's essay “The Sanctuary of School” Barry gives her own personal feelings and experiences about the school system. She points out the fact that when times are “lean” the first things the government eliminates from the school systems is the art, music. and other creative programs. In her essay she gives her readers insight on her childhood, explaining how going to school was her get-away from her financially and emotionally unstable home. Barry points out how she and her brother weren’t noticed by their family while at home. For example, at the age of seven Barry sneaks out of the house while it was still dark because she feels a sudden urgency to get to school; when she gets close, she feels a sense of peace come over her. When

to the student that do not eat the food given to them and the times they are able to the receive the food are either to early or to late so the have very little energy for the day ahead of the, also for the schools that can barley afford it in the first place which takes away a lot supplies needed for the school/s up keep and for all the things I might not have mentioned like the troubles that are faced by the students and school/s and even the teachers in this report. Although with this report that been placed before you today a hope that many other people will understand and agree to this point of view this article proved

Jennifer Echols, an Alabama native, has done several things within her career, including: being a YA author, a newspaper editor, and a college teacher. She lives with her husband and son in Birmingham, Alabama. Echols used the familiar-to-her setting of one of Alabama’s lakes for her novel Endless Summer. This novel is actually a combination of two books: The Boys Next Door #1 and #2. This novel is a very quick and easy read for anyone who loves the idea of a summer romance.

Not one parent wants to see their child go hungry. Several students do not eat during their lunch period because they cannot afford it, or unable to bring food from home for many reasons. Most schools offer free and reduced lunch programs. Not every family may be eligible for these programs. In today’s economy, even middle-class families sometimes cannot provide their children with money for school lunches. A child missing a meal, and going hungry is one too many. Funding to provide all students with two meals per day during school is imperative. Free lunch in public school should be available to all students, despite the level of income.

One in four American children live in food-insecure households, meaning that they lack adequate access to food of any type, not just food with significant nutritional value (Ford, 2013, p. 58). As these families are the most likely to have children who both leave for and return home from school to an empty house, they are also the most likely to have children who prepare meals for themselves. Often, children fail to nourish themselves, skipping meals when they are running late or because they find nothing in the pantry they are capable of preparing. These students ready themselves (and sometimes siblings) for school and frequently don’t take their first meal until mid-day, losing precious hours of instructional time to distraction over food, fatigue due to low levels of nourishment, and other physical ailments tied to poor nutrition. If school breakfasts were free and readily available to all public school students, morning meals would be

People live in a complex world where things are never as simple as they seem. Officials agree that in order for students to perform well in school, their basic needs have to be met (in conjunction with the ideas of Maslow’s hierarchy of needs). While schools may not be able to provide a safe place to sleep or warm clothing during the winter, they can provide a healthy, nutritious meal. According to the National Center for Children in Poverty, the number of children under 18 years of age living below the federal poverty level of $23,550 for a family of four represent 21.1% of the population (“Child Poverty,” n.d.). The National Lunch Act and its subsequent revisions have sought to mitigate the effects of hunger. Unfortunately, there are other circumstances that affect the desired outcomes of serving a balanced meal to students in need.

Waking up hungry is something children shouldn 't have to experience. It definitely shouldn’t become a commonplace either for them to scour and scavenge for whatever scraps of food they can find in their household and surrounding areas. Garbage cans shouldn’t be another pantry and parents should look after their children if it does get to that point in which children are forced to do anything for food. Whether that comes into a form of frozen pizza, broken up by a five year old girl on a dirty, roach-infested ground to share with her two younger brothers, equally hungry in measure, or a cake mix box eaten plain by a young boy because someone had left the box behind. When the only meal comes in the form of mandatory lunch breaks for schoolchildren and these hungry children don’t understand why people don’t like ‘school food’. What other food is there? As time progresses forward, days become shorter, and winter draws near, there is a festival of food these children are left out of.