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Reading Summary/Discussion Questions #9 This week we were to read three chapters out of Poppendieck’s Free for All. These chapters focused mainly on what is wrong with school food and some alternatives to it. Coming from a small school, I related to some of the examples Poppendieck gave of school food. From greasy food to junk food in vending machines, my school had it. Most of what she talked about in these chapters is not new to me because it relates to my high school. However, with being a small school, we did not have the option to leave and go get fast food. Basically, you ate the school’s food, got something from the vending machine, or brought your own lunch. Surprisingly, many children chose to ate the school lunch, but I was …show more content…

Chapter six goes on to talk about hunger and how we see it in schools. Finally, chapter eight focuses on changing the school food system and introducing healthier options. The first section to be reviewed is chapter five. This chapter talks about the factors of why children may choose to stay away from school food. The main factors include quality and variety of food, time available for eating, cafeteria environment, price, alternatives, and the stigma attached to free and reduced lunch. Pertaining to quality and variety, there was the complaint that school food was full of grease and junk. Looking back at my school, I agree with this. I remember every time I got pizza, I would take a napkin and blot the grease off of it. Some days, the food was so greasy that I could not eat it. Also, they took away salt shakers, instead adding a ton of salt to whatever they fixed. I personally do not like salt, or a lot of it, so there would be days that the mashed potatoes were so salty and I threw them away. Along with somewhat edible food was the amount of time I had to eat it. Poppendieck mentions that some students would have to wait in line for a while to get their food and they would not have much time to eat

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Yet, not looking at the bigger picture, the “BENEFIT” of these children. Poppendieck goes on to explain how since way back when the war began and how that set-in motion a “war on food” using surpluses as well as cutting the budget for lunches in order to make ends meet with these programs, yet that still didn’t get the job done. The significance that the government has held over these food programs are heavily weighed in her book. She gives us an overview with USDA reports, sit ins on courses with other educators, food personnel, and parents. The result is multiple views about the problems facing school lunch, and how we could find ways to improve them.

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Think of the Children in America Summer is the time when most kids enjoy their free time out of school, and for some kids, summer is the time where they’re not so lucky food-wise. Anna Quindlen, the author of the essay “School’s Out for Summer,” stated that children often were not able to receive the appropriate nutrition during summer because sometimes families do not have enough money to provide nutritious meals as they are served in school. The essay proves, with factual evidence, that, although most people tend to deny the problem, starvation occurs as well in the mighty country of America. Quindlen explained that “During the rest of the [school] year fifteen million students get free or cut-rate lunches at school... but only three million children are getting lunches though the federal summer lunch program.”

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“The school lunch program, begun in the 1970s as a result of bipartisan federal legislation, has been by most measures an enormous success. For lots of poor families it’s become a way to count on at least getting one decent meal into their children, and when it disappears it’s catastrophic,” (page 224) In the essay “Schools out for the Summer” Quindlen writes about the problem of hunger in the USA.

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In Anna Quindlen’s essay, School’s Out for Summer, she discusses what a huge problem child hunger has become and how it affects thousands of families across the nation. Anna’s essay informed the reader of how the problem still exists, and how people are taking steps to prevent and end child hunger. Anna provides the reader with evidence from food banks and summer programs that hunger is still a major problem in the United States. “During the rest of the year fifteen million students get free or cut-rate lunches at school, and many of them get breakfast too.” Ultimately, this shows that many families across the nation cannot afford to feed their children adequate meals three times a day.

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For these reasons school lunches need to be changed so that children are getting healthier, more local, and organic foods into their diet and so that the students besides getting healthier foods are getting the necessary amount of food for their individual needs so that they can do better in school and on tests. Organic and locally grown food is healthier and better for the students developing bodies and although schools gain a big portion of their funds from selling junk food it is better for the kids overall. These foods also help kids be more full through the day which can help them focus in class and improve test scores. Schools and parents need to take action and play a bigger role in what children are eating during lunch, whether it is

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Many schools in America are considering a change to their lunch menus. Due to an increase of teenage obesity in America, schools would like to provide their students with healthier food to eat. Although changing to a healthier meal plan would promote a healthy life style, the current lunch menu has food that the students enjoy and gives students access to more food options; therefore, schools should not change their current meal plan to a healthier kind. The lunch menu currently in place provides students with food that they enjoy.

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Their grades may decrease on tests or they may not participate in class as much. This is why student lunches should contain less fruits and vegetables and more foods of variety containing carbohydrates and

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This is because the food is not to their standards, so students are not going to eat it. ProQuest said “The most nutritious meals are the ones students actually eat.” To add on to this, they say that the schools don't have the food up to the standards they need to have. For example, 1 out of 5 students are going to be obese. This is stated because the school's food is not healthy for students.

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In the year 2010, President Barack Obama and the First Lady Michelle Obama created the “Hunger-Free Kids Act” of 2010, which has created problems among students. In the year 2012, Michelle Obama also created the “Let’s Move Campaign” in order to reduce childhood obesity, and to give students access to healthy food in their school lunches. The “Hunger-Free Kids Act” means that no student should go hungry, and the “Let’s Move Campaign” makes the lunches healthier. Unfortunately, due to the quality and quantity of the meals that the students now receive, more kids are refusing to eat school lunches, and remain hungry during school hours. Not only does this outrage students, it also infuriates parents, teachers and staff as well.

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(Paragraph 1 of “School’s Out For Summer”) But does that seem to be the case? Anna Quindlen discusses the problem of child hunger in America and her argument, while using her own evidence to persuade readers that this problem actually exists. According to her article, “15 million students get free lunches at school, and many get breakfast, too.

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By the 1990s, private food companies had made it easy for schools to purchase bulk "airplane meal packs" by providing schools with the freezers and ovens to accommodate them. No skilled on-site labor necessary, and no need to dip into the school's budget to finance and maintain real kitchen equipment (Ken). School Cafeterias have become big business for large companies and they only care about profit and not the health of the children. Many kids are receiving two meals a day from their school cafeteria, and in some case these are the only meals a kid will receive in the entire day. These types of food choice are driving unhealthy expectation about food.

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To begin with, the taste alone of school lunches is beyond unsatisfactory. The meals provided by public schools are not appetizing. There exists a tangible disconnect between the enticing, nutritious meals advertised on the school board’s menus and what the students actually receive—pathetic portions and lukewarm meals slapped onto a tray. Children’s complaints about school lunches are often seen as trite. However, while common, they are not any less accurate.

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I believe school food sucks. School food is the most undesirable, hated, and fowl food to ever breach your pallet. You have to get in a long prison line just to obtain a Styrofoam tray. You wait thirty minutes of your life just to get a scoop of leftovers that disappear in a minute. Schools claim to serve their children top notch heathy grub.

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In some schools some principals superintendents have made a decision to opt out of the Healthy choice foods and make there own semi-healthy foods that kids like. To reduce waste and bring back students who have opted to pack a lunch or go off campus for fast food, his districts cafeterias have installed stir-fry stations with abundant vegetables so students can have meals made to order. and he’s added spice bars so kids can even the bland. In schools some principals and administrators are starting to take action.

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