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Longer School Lunches Research Paper

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Emma Wallington
1-5-16
Persuasive Essay
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Mrs. Goodrich

Public schools should have longer lunches. The school lunches are so short that kids are not able to finish their food. They would spend more time eating the filling foods with the little time they had during lunch. Kids should have longer lunches, they are so short! When kids are growing, they need to eat to grow big, a growing boy or girl must eat, if not, they will not be healthy. Some kids even barely eat because the spent so much of their lunch socializing. Especially when kids have to wait in a lunch line to get their lunch, kids barely eat because the lunch line is so long. Kids need longer lunches! Short lunches caused issues because kids were not getting the right nutrition that they need daily.

The eating time in public schools for lunch breaks is a huge problem. This is a problem because kids don't get to finish their lunch in time and that the kids would be hungry for the rest of the day seeing kids are not able to eat any other time of the day because of rules (Unless they have snack time) even if they have snack time this is still a problem. Kid’s are not only wasting money by not finishing their meals, it it also so unhealthy for the human body, especially for younger bodys. Our body is like a machine, food is like our fuel ( I like to call this food fuel ) If we …show more content…

It is unhealthy for kids to not eat enough food, really unhealthy. Just 10 minutes can do so much! It should even be longer than an extra 10 minutes, the number 10 is just an example of a random number. Some kids don't even eat at all and decide to spend the whole time talking, if lunch periods were longer eventually they would probably run out of things to talk about and actually eat, even if it's a little, they are still eating. That means so much as

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