Key West High School Lunch Research Paper

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How would you like to have your freedom stripped away? How would you like to wait over 30 minutes to get your lunch? How would you like to pay a full price for a meal, only having one item on your lunch plate because the cafeteria ran out of food? Do you like to be force fed highly processed GMO foods? Currently in Key West High School, these dilemmas are occurring to the students during lunch every day. A great way to solve this problem is to let students of all grades off campus. Because our school has too many people to serve in two lines and one window, it is way too inefficient of a way to provide the students’ lunches. I have been to many schools in the past, never having to experience horrible lunch serving methods like this in my life. For example, my last school had double the students, but they had over ten lines along with food stands around the campus. Obviously, Key West High School is unavailable to provide the money and space to expand and create additional lunch lines. The only way to shorten the lines is to allow all grades go off campus, reducing the number of people needing to be served. …show more content…
Many times, half the menu is already consumed by other people, if you could not get in line early enough. The school runs out of food, still charging full price for what is left to serve: one side item and a milk. The food served is also disgusting, processed, and chemical-filled, even my dog would refuse to eat; not to mention the ground beef served here was once green. The school ends up shoving these appalling substances down our throats, leaving us no other options for food. Even some teachers are on my side saying the food served to us is nothing but a mockery. Preventing the students to leave campus prevents many people to actually eat enough and

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