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I chose Government Regulating Public School Lunches for my topic. The price of school lunches have gone up several time within the past few years. The school lunch price is now up to $2.70. I think that government should not regulate the food that schools feed the students at lunch. I think that the schools should pay and get to choose the type and amount of food that they feed the students. I do understand that students are bigger than they were 50 years ago, but the times have changed. Maybe the human body is adapting to the type of food that we were eating. But the government is also paying the school to give free or reduced lunches to some of the students. I think that is the only good part of the government sticking their nose in the school …show more content…

It helped to pay for school lunches for the students and it helped the schools pay for the food that they bought. Then it the early 1900’s, congress passed a law to establish a federal school lunch program. The law gave schools millions of dollars to pay for the food that they bought. Then a few years later, the bill for the first type of financial aid was signed. This helped the parents and the students, with low income, pay for their lunches at school. This bill was also put in place to reduce the agricultural surplus from The Great Depression. It gave farmers a place to send their extra food and the farmers got paid for it. This also helped the schools through The Great Depression because they were able to get the food very cheap or for no …show more content…

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

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