School’s out, Food’s out
Do you ever wonder or worry about your kids not eating in the summer time? In Anna Quindlen’s essay, “School’s Out for Summer” she discusses not the issue that few people have with their children over the summer but that actually a lot of parents have to worry about. She talks about the need for food in the summer for children. Usually when you read an essay they discuss topics about, somethings like children forgetting about what they learned in school or about how children need to be more active in the summer time. Miss Quindlen makes it her main point in this essay to explain how children don’t get enough or close to nothing when it comes to eating. In these few paragraphs I am about to write, they will show you how Anna Quindlen’s essay makes more sense as far as children not eating over the summer time and the effectiveness that it has upon those children.
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She looks at the point of view nobody bothers to look about because either the parent has, quote from the essay, “Vacationing their children in front of the television, lock the door, and go to work for the best, calling home on the hour.” Or they don’t have the money to provide the food for the children. “A group of big-city mayors released a study showing that in 2000, request for food assistance from families increased almost 20 percent, more than at any time in the last decade.” Some families really have to struggle to get the help that they need for their children to