I think we should no longer require healthy lunches in schools across the nation.You’re going through the lunch line, you grab an apple, a celery, a chicken sandwich with whole wheat buns and milk. You just spent 3 dollars on that lunch. You sit down and eat your chicken sandwich, but never touch your apple and celery. You end up throwing it away. Now, in class you are hungry and not paying attention to your teacher. This is happening to millions of kids across the nation right now. In this essay, I will explain why we should not continue the healthy lunches in the US. The history of healthy lunches doesn’t go back very far at all. In 2010, the Healthy Hunger-Free Kids Act, an act that adds more grains, fresh fruits and vegetables to lunches,
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According to Sandra Ford, director of food and nutrition services for Manatee County School District, her district would lose around $975,000 a year if they took away all items that don’t meet the new health and nutrition regulations. This shows that serving healthy food to students cost way too much. It puts the district in a bad financial situation, unless they have loads of money, which most don’t. In the article, Why Some Schools Are Saying ‘No Thanks’ to the School-Lunch Program, it states that “Some schools are dropping out of the healthier school-lunch program because they can’t afford to participate. If schools are dropping out, this shows that the new regulations are not worth it. What if schools could no longer have after school programs, clubs or athletics? Some people might say that after school athletics and clubs aren’t important. My response would be that a lot of kids depend on those extra-curricular activities to pay for a way into college. It is not worth not being able to buy textbooks, computers or construct new facilities, just to eat healthy food. Schools across the nation cannot afford to pay for food that meets the new nutrition regulations. I wish we would stop the nutrition regulations because of
According to Sandra Ford, director of food and nutrition services for Manatee County School District, her district would lose around $975,000 a year if they took away all items that don’t meet the new health and nutrition regulations. This shows that serving healthy food to students cost way too much. It puts the district in a bad financial situation, unless they have loads of money, which most don’t. In the article, Why Some Schools Are Saying ‘No Thanks’ to the School-Lunch Program, it states that “Some schools are dropping out of the healthier school-lunch program because they can’t afford to participate. If schools are dropping out, this shows that the new regulations are not worth it. What if schools could no longer have after school programs, clubs or athletics? Some people might say that after school athletics and clubs aren’t important. My response would be that a lot of kids depend on those extra-curricular activities to pay for a way into college. It is not worth not being able to buy textbooks, computers or construct new facilities, just to eat healthy food. Schools across the nation cannot afford to pay for food that meets the new nutrition regulations. I wish we would stop the nutrition regulations because of