Verdugo Hills High School: A Case Study

Obesity can often be the consequence of living in a household that instill unhealthy eating habits. Schools can be a positive influence on teens early in life so that obese teens can lead into their adult lives with healthier habits. With these healthier habits, they may likely have more energy to become positive influences in others lives to be healthy and be able to do more. If schools can make such an impact on students’ lives, they should try, even if they needed to sacrifice extra money or instructional time. In 2007, there was a study that only one fifth of high school students had eaten fruits and vegetables at least five times a day in a week (Wexler, 2010). While it is unreasonable to force someone to eat these foods, if they are regularly offered as part of school lunches, students may eat them if they have finished the rest of their lunch and are hungry. Schools should be encouraged to even add fruits and vegetables to vending machines for healthier options.

School lunches are often unsung heroes of many modern American households. Frequently overlooked and disregarded because of their stigma, school lunches are a key ingredient that may help make the world a better place. Unknowingly, great numbers of individuals in our communities deal with food insecurities every day of their lives. It baffles me that in an advanced society many people do not have the resources to provide food for themselves or their families. Until it affected me personally, I was unaware nor passionate about the struggles of food insecurity. My passion for solving food insecurity in my local community has led me to gain both experience and leadership through understanding and advocating for those around me.

High School is an incredibly important period of life. It influences your social, academic, and personal life for four years, and prepares you for college and a career. This is the reason County Prep High School is my school of choice. County Prep's thriving social environment, challenging academic curriculum, and wide variety of electives will help me successfully carry out my plans for the future.

For many previous years, Anaheim High school has had a couple lunch system changes finally settling on two lunches, both being half an hour long. With both lunches only being half an hour long, for certain, more than one thousand students being in each, imagine the lunch lines! Making line to get your lunch takes already about fifteen minutes, half of a person’s time already, which leaves little time for a student to enjoy their so called meal and free time with friends.Based on other student’s experiences dealing with school lunch, one can rightfully assume that high schoolers would much rather hold in their hunger until after school rather than have the food being provided. There is not a single day that goes by in which a high schooler does not complain about the “worst than jail” food being served to them. This proposal will go into detail about why having an hour off-campus lunch can increase healthier eating habits between the undergraduates of Anahiem High School. In this layout, you will read about the issue of why we believe off- campus lunch would be a healthier choice for Anaheim High school students, you will also encounter our plan of how we intend to carry out this idea, what exactly needs to be done, with the help of who, and so on.

Childhood obesity is a major cause for concern within the United States. This is mainly due to children not getting the require nutrition that they need. Although study show that there is a decrease in obesity in children, it still remains at an all-time high. Children are failing to eat as healthy as they should, and it has become an even bigger problem now that they aren’t getting the require amount of food in their diets. The USDA made a decision a couple of years ago to reduce the amount of food given to children while they are at school. This hurts them tremendously, because the majority of the food they eat comes from being at school all day. The other half lies on the parents when they go home and eat dinner. It is very important for children to eat healthy and eat the required amount of food according to various dietary guidelines. First Lady Michelle Obama has started a new campaign to help kids and parents combat obesity in children. One thing that the campaign has placed emphases on is getting healthier food within school. Although they are getting healthier foods in school they are beginning to change the proportion they are giving students. Through the First Lady’s Let’s Move campaign students should be giving healthier foods and also be allowed to have the correct proportion to help them maintain a healthy diet.

Many state public high schools in Michigan are progressing towards possibly allowing an open campus lunch policy for its students. The trend would allow students to depart from school to a distinct location of considerable distance by the school. Recent studies have shown that providing high school students the choice to a better quality of healthy food during lunch could lead to higher test scores. (Michael, Justin, & Elizabeth. “How the quality of school lunch affects students’ academic performance.” www. brookings.edu). Changing school meals to accommodate healthier options is a cost effective way to fix other issues like students who struggle with obesity. Revising eating habits could help fight high health risks in students to improve

The United States have been facing a problem of obesity for quite some time now. And no matter how far we dig into this problem, we will find many reasons for the cause. In today’s society, politicians are inclined to take this issue serious because it is now affecting our children on a large scale. According to the United States Department of Health and Human Services, 1 in 3 adolescents between the ages of 6 and 19 are overweight. Many believe this to be a problem of poor eating habits and in some cases the lack of healthy eating options. In the documentary Food Inc. it mentions schools choosing healthy lunch options provided by local farming. In this paper I will evaluate how Wisconsin public schools have adopted programs that will

In the hypothetical case, the Rockshire High School official had reasonable cause to search Britney Sullivan’s cell phone for evidence that she and other students cheated on their AP History exam. The administrator suspects Britney because (1) the students scored extremely high on the AP History test (2) Britney has been in trouble in the past and is in the AP History class and (3) a teacher received a reliable tip from another student describing how the students cheated using social media. According to the Supreme Court case (New Jersey v. TLO, 469 U.S. 325 (1985).) the school administrator had the right to search the contents of the student's cell phone, since the administrator had reasonable cause to suspect the student of school policy infractions. The court’s decision in this case is that the student officials do not hold the same accountability of the police under search and seizure. Police are held to the strict accountability of probable cause while school officials according to the Supreme Court have only to prove reasonable cause. In this hypothetical case the supreme court would support the decision of the Rockshire High School administration to search a student's cell phone as evidence for cheating based on the fact that the administrator had evidence to support reasonable cause. The Supreme Court states, “reasonable grounds

Seniors! This is it! This is your last year as a Husky here at CHHS. The counselors have made this very clear that now is the time to start figuring out the next step after high school.

Nevertheless, the National School Lunch Program provides unique ideas for improving the program in the future. By improving the guidelines into modern needs it helps to think about what can be changed to make it better in the future. Talk From Earth wrote in "Cafeteria Food - Improving School Lunches - How to Make Cafeteria Food Better for Kids and the Environment," that by banning sugary food and food from school lunches, it causes the administrators and many parents to want to have healthy lunches and be more green. This got me thinking how urban schools can achieve this same success in developing a more nutritious lunch in different ways. By schools teaching better eating habits it can affect the future for students. As Elisabeth Leamy

Of all of the problems that dishearten children today, the one that bothers them the most is being unhealthy. Five out of six students from the Manalapan Englishtown Middle School agree that there should be a change in the schools' cafeteria foods; they came up with a solution to help kids be healthy. Unhealthy foods should be eliminated in schools for many reasons. First of all, kids concentrate better when they are healthy. Being healthy helps children to concentrate better because if they are healthy in the inside and the outside, they will not have to worry about their health or how they look. Secondly, having only healthy foods in school help parents to take good care of their kids. For instance, imagine a mom that is a seventh

Valley Middle School serves students in fifth through eighth grades. There are 309 students that attend Valley Middle School. There are 163 males (53%) and 146 females (47%) at Valley Middle School. There are forty-four males and thirty-three females in the fifth grade. Forty males and thirty-two females are in the sixth grade. There are thirty-nine males and thirty-seven females in the seventh grade. Forty males and forty-four females are in the eighth grade. 174 (56%) of those students receive free or reduced lunch. Valley Middle School is located in rural southern Ohio and does not have much diversity. There are 156 (50%) white males and 142 (46%) white females that attend and make up the majority of Valley

The depression is a big factor, which affects negatively performance academic. The fact that all rates of test scores in Dominguez high school as English, Math, and Science are below the state average. The main issue is the pressure from school and family that builds up stressfulness in student’s minds every day. The stressfulness not only affects emotion and physical conditions, also affects habit and spirit. Therefore, the goal is detecting spore of disease before it develops, and we need a program designed to help to evaluate the health status and potential of a victim. It also diagnoses students who lie outside of the typical high-risk population; we thus are planning create a health center to measure currency student’s status. Students

This alternative program is used by schools in Berkeley and the difference is that all the products used to prepare school lunches are fresh and come from the local farmers. As a result, students received a healthy lunch and local farmers have the opportunity to sell their products. Experts had calculated that a wholesome meal for a student will cost $5, or about $ 27 billion a year. Also, it is necessary to make a one-time investment in the school kitchen, so there will be possible to cook food from fresh ingredients. Even though this project looks expensive, we will have a healthy lunch for every child. To realize this project, the Agriculture Department has to implement a new program that will allow local farmers to deliver food, especially fruits and vegetables from local farms to schools. Also, the Department of Education has to come with initiatives such as teaching children to eat well. Every child deserves a healthy lunch prepared with fresh ingredients which will lead to decrease the number of diet-related problems among

The products will be sold for the same price as the products sold at fast food restaurants. This solution would provide adequate nutrition to the families, and eventually decrease the amount of money spent on the obesity epidemic in the United States. The farmers market will also provide job opportunities for those who need to make some money. It will keep a stable source of nutritious foods each week and demonstrate a healthy way of life that children and adolescents will carry with them for the rest of their lives. It is very important that the bad habits of poor nutrition are stopped at an early age to limit one’s health problems.