No Cheez-It In School

Have you ever taken a bit in your school lunch and just want to spit it all back out? Or how about the little portions you get? These types of school lunches should not be allowed to be given to the students because there are many reasons why school lunches are bad for health reasons. Although the school lunches are supposed to be healthier and better for our well-being, school lunches should change because it’s not very appetizing, there are little portions, and there isn’t any difference in the health level before.

On November 14, 2015, Cheez-Its were banned for the rest of the year in the school cafeteria. A table of 8th graders weren’t paying attention to who was around them, which happened to be the principal. They were throwing a whole box of Cheez-Its across the cafeteria, attempting to start a food fight. It started as a small problem, but after 2 minutes, the whole middle school was throwing food around. It was getting out of control. The principal attempted to bring an end to the chaos, but he had no success. Soon, all of the teachers entered the cafeteria to assist the principal. Nobody could stop the mess, so the students kept throwing Cheez-Its. They weren’t aware of what was coming next. “If this goes on any longer, the whole school will have

It is essential for the government to continue to regulate the food in our school systems. In the article, “The Extraordinary Science of Addictive Junk Food,” Michael Moss shows how the food industry is targeting children in school systems. “A potato chip that tastes great and qualifies for the Clinton-A. H. A. alliance for school...We think we have ways to do all of this on a potato chip, and imagine getting that product into schools, where children can have this product and grow up with it and feel good about eating it” (Moss 488-489). This is a prime example of how the food industry is circumventing regulations already in effect. The children of the United States of America are being zeroed in on by companies finding a loophole, instead of protecting the children, by using

Everyone loves sugar filled snacks, especially children. A kid’s day can be made so much better just by handing them their favorite candy bar. This is something students looked forward to during their school day. Sadly, this was made to change. Schools started banning snacks, and drinks based on their unhealthy effect they have on individuals. According to Beverly Ballaro and Ann Griswold in "Junk Food in Schools: An Overview,” this change occurred when Michelle Obama launched her project for healthy eating in 2010. Let’s Move! Was her way to fix child obesity in America. This directed schools to feed children healthier options, and twice as many vegetables or fruit. This was not a necessity for public schools across the United States. Students should not be limited to what they eat in school. As long as they are being fed their basic lunch, it should not be important what they decide to snack on.

To resolve the disapproval of the ban of junk food, schools should sale junk food are certain days of month. This would allow schools to earn money while allowing students to have their choices to eat junk food. In the meantime, schools should have fruits come with bags of chips or soda drinks to allow students to encourage them to eat healthy. As for the bad quality of food, schools should promote healthy eating by serving “whole fruits and vegetables everyday” instead from frozen and canned (Barr). Schools should also cook lunch meals from scratch instead of serving pre-made industry food.

When the Obama administration 's Hunger-Free Kids Act was put into motion, children across the nation were in uproar. The act requires school lunches to minimize portion sizes, limit calories, and cut back on protein consumption in general for all students. Most students, including myself argue that the government should not have any say in our diets. The government shouldn 't have control over what we are eating for three very obvious reasons. clearly, the act 's "one size fits all" approach does not apply to every individual student affected. Second, The federal government is being hypocritical with the passing of this act, we can inhale harmful smoke and injest chemicals such as alcohol but we can 't even have a good burger for lunch? Third, the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act clearly limits students ' choices and prevents them from making intelligent decisions on their own. Overall, the Hunger-Free Kids Act is not helping children by regulating their diets.

In other words the “Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010”. cost schools to much is more expensive then the other food/s plan that where in place before the “Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010”. was applied to the participating schools across the U.S. Also some of these schools not only can afford it, they also have to make serious cut them selves but even their own school districts have to make cut back to provided school with other necessary supply’s that their school can not afford

In the article about fixing kids lunches and diets is ,Besides the menu changes, the new law makes it easier for low-income and foster kids to have school meals.In the article it’s important to note that the goverment only sets guidelines,local

The reason why Cheez-Its are not allowed in the cafeteria at school is because people were throwing the around everywhere. They were taking them into the cafeteria and start throwing them around and throwing them at the other kids and then started to throw some at the teachers that were in there. The kids would crave them. They would eat them, throw them, and they would stack them to see who’s was taller. Kids would try to make them into the other kids food. They even tried to put them in the cafeteria food while the lunch people weren’t looking.

Research shows that school lunches are highly concentrated in salt, sugar and unsaturated fat. Elementary, middle and high schools are over populated with vending machines, school stores and snack bars. It is not uncommon for a student to grab more than 2 or 3 snacks at once from the lunch line without

It is their money, they should be able to buy whatever type of food that they want to. Yes, they are actually trying to make the students eat healthier and help them stay healthy. The government is also trying to start healthy eating habits with the younger grades and try to start it with the older grades. It used to be that some of the schools would sever foods to the students that contained close to 50% of fat, a little bit under 50% of saturated fats, and over 50% of salt. "The american children are not doing as well in their nutrition and health as we would like to,” says Virginia Stallings, the professor of pediatrics at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine (Zalan 10). Studies have shown, and teachers have also noticed, that the student’s minds can not focus and function properly on a poor diet. A healthy diet show to prove itself in the school work. “Schools have access to children K through 12, almost 2,000 days of their lives, so schools have got to play a big role…. The whole goal of education is to change behavior to [make it] more positive,” says Rhonda Clements, program director of physical education and sport pedagogy at Manhattanville College in Purchase, N.Y. (Khadroo 1). And yes, the student’s weight has been going up throughout the years. A ten year old boy weighs and is bigger now that a ten year old boy

The clock reads 11:39, in a few seconds the most important bell of the day will ring--the lunch bell. This bell sends students rushing to the cafeteria; some students will sit quietly at a table unpacking their lunch from home, others will wait in line to receive a lunch provided by the school. Everyday across America more than 31 million school lunches are served. The majority of these lunches fall under the regulations of the National School Lunch Program. The program, funded and regulated by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), has raised many questions among American citizens. One very important question is whether or not the government should be allowed to regulate/ban certain foods in the nation's school system. The government,

This proves the point that the schools have little to no control of what a kid eats its their choice overall. Third, in a different article Daren Bakst with The Daily Signal an online article, he states the following. Maybe this is crazy, but the number one dietary concern, when it comes to school lunches should be that kids actually eat lunch. This reveals that even the professionals believe that school lunches should at least be edible, because not all people that attend public schools are overweight. All in all, it’s not the schools fault if a kid is a little overweight because it’s not their job to monitor the weight of a

There is no denying that this is true, but a school lunch is just one of 3 meals a child will eat during the day, not to mention any snacks that take place in between. The point is that a school lunch might be healthy, but that doesn’t mean the child will automatically become healthier. With lunch being the only meal that can be controlled by the government, it is being taken advantage of. Making 1 meal healthier won’t solve much. Another argument for healthy school lunches is that it promotes academic achievement. Sara Ipatenco of Livestrong.com says that “Some of the choices in the school cafeteria, including cheeseburgers and chicken nuggets, are high in saturated fat and sodium, which can leave your child feeling tired and uncomfortable after eating. This can lead to distraction and an inability to focus in the classroom” which is also a true statement. Even though these lunches might make children tired and uncomfortable, an argument can be made that leaving children hungry and not feeling good after eating something they don’t enjoy could have a similar effect. Being hungry in the classroom can cause a child to lose attention just as much as being tired would be. In neither option can the student properly focus in a controlled learning environment. Teaching nutrition is also a factor involved in a healthy school lunch. But this point isn’t

This law was a way to force the improvement of the school system, if a school does not meet the ‘adequate yearly progress’ toward getting every student a satisfactory level of learning then the school is put on a warning list. If in three years, the school still has not meet the proper yearly progression then the school will be labeled “In Need of Improvement’ and parents have the option of moving their child to a better school and the school faces some consequences. Obviously schools do not want to be labeled as ineffective at teaching students and most of the responsibility for making the students ready for this assessment falls on the teachers. This is not the best way to assess students or the school but it is the cheapest ways and can be used as a guideline across different states which is why the federal government is not getting rid of it. Now with the implementation of Common Core Standards there is also a new test that students will be assessed on. A part of this transition to a new test especially since it is computer based is allowing a three year waiver to all schools. This waiver is necessary to allow students to learn the skills that the computer programmed test requires of them.