High schools in Taiwan should have an open campus lunch break
The problem is most of the high school in Taiwan do not allow students to have lunch out of the campus since the negative side said food that rich students and poor students eat might be different and it might cause competitions even will come across the accident while going to the restaurant out side the school campus.
The meaning of open campus lunch is when the school allows students to be able to leave the campus to have lunch by themselves. When considering this issue, we should think about what Taiwanese teachers are teaching our adolescents. Schools are not just places to learn academic knowledge, but also places to learn the personal skills one needs to be a successful adult: things like freedom and responsibility. Freedom is a privilege essential within the growth of teenagers as they slowly become adults, but this form of benefit should be introduced in a controlled environment and linked with corresponding responsibility. To make sure this is passed on thoroughly, we would like to propose the following contentions and educate student those concept.
- The first contention is that an open lunch policy is a good way to promote values such as responsibility, supervised in a controlled setting.
- The second contention is that an open lunch policy could be an effective way to help the nearby businesses, specifically the local dining establishments within proximity of schools.
First, an open campus lunch break allows teenagers to make choices on their own. If schools continue to treat young adults as children, they won’t know how to be responsible for their behaviors. Some may say letting students out of campus will result in accidents, and that they are not mature enough to handle an open campus lunch break. In other words, they haven’t learned to handle such responsibility. But this is precisely what education and school is for, just like what we have said above. School is there to teach, not to hold back more opportunities for students to mature and be prepared for the world.
Secondly, which is that implementing open lunch policies across Taiwan will help the local businesses around.
Logically thinking, if schools allow an open campus lunch, students may become potential customers of nearby restaurants, and this could theoretically lead to a significant increase in revenue.
Once the students consume, the revenue of the shops will increase. Therefore, implementing this policy is not only beneficial but also harmless. Since the number of consumers has increased, the demand of the ingredients and the manufacturer profit will also increase, it benefits not only the shops around the store but also supports the local businesses.
If school afraid that students might get hurt or run into accidents, the schools can buy insurance for students and it works whether students hurt in school or out off.If students got injured during open campus lunch break, insurance company will pay for it.
According to evidence I found,by having an open campus lunch break and letting students out, can increase the local dining establishments within proximity of schools up to 20% of the performance. In 2018, there are approximately 248,000 high school students in Taiwan, and according to evidence we mentioned above, if we let all 248,000 students out of campus to have lunch,the local dining performance will definitely increase.
Due to the contentions above, I as the affirmative strongly believe that high schools in Taiwan should have open campus lunch break.
According to an article in 2017 citing a high school in Washington, D.C. which has open campus lunch break, students have said that it is a “little mental break” and that they do not like to be cooped up inside. We can see from this example that an open campus lunch break is something that can relieve their stress.
