By Heydi R. & M’kyiah W.
School food is not the best thing. Some students would rather starve at school than eat the school food. This is why we think our school should rethink school lunches and have better/healthier food. We want to talk about this because some students at school would rather starve than want to eat the school lunch. School food has a very big impact on students every single day. If students don’t eat, their performance at school won’t be as good as if they were already well fed and not starving.
Whoever is in charge of picking out school food should focus on the nutrition and taste of the food more because so far the school is barely edible and not as good. It’s practically jail food. According to Nourish California https://nourishca.org/ “When asked to choose just one main reason they do not usually eat school meals, one-third of students say they do not like the school meals (34%) and about one-fifth say the line for school meals is too long (22%).” This tells us like what we said before most/some students don’t eat school lunch and would choose not to eat for the day. This sometimes relates to Latitude Highschool because during lunch a lot of people crowd the lunch area. Which makes it hard for the people who eat school lunch not be able to get their lunch. And most kids here don’t like school lunch.
We made a survey for Latitude students to talk about school food. The first question asked was, “If you could change something about the school food, what would you change?” Most people said they would change everything. So this comes to show how students at Latitude High also think school lunch isn’t the best, and they would like it to be changed. This is telling us that people that have tried the school lunch think that the school food is “horrible” and that the “quality” might not be the best. This just shows us how people really dislike the school food and do not enjoy it at all.
Another question asked was, “What do you do when you choose not to eat school lunch?” 15 out of 20 people said they don’t eat. Basically starve themself until they get home. This is the main reason why I think school lunch should be changed. Due to how bad the quality of the school lunches are some kids just choose to get through the day hungry.
In conclusion, school food badly affects students. We came to this conclusion by asking students from latitude to take a survey stating their opinion on the school food which were mostly negative opinions. The people who handle the school lunch might simply just not care enough to change the school lunch or they might just have not enough money in the budget to get higher quality school food which we can start a fundraiser to help that out. School lunch may not ever change but all this evidence. We provided why it should/needs to be changed.
