Home Lunch Vs. School Lunch

Choice and Nutrition
Although school lunch can offer children to several choice, some children may make a wrong choice. Their food choices usually have no nutrition and it is no conducive to growth of children. Even some children do not like school lunch, they throw away food and starve because the food has become bland.This is severe consequences. Home lunch has better choice, parents can ask their children what they like eating and talk to their children about healthy choice to their lunch. A home lunch can give parents a better chance to giving their children a nutrition lunch. They can put more fruits and vegetables in home lunch. It is more nutrition than school lunch.Rose Alexande said "The obvious arguments include the one that bad food served in schools teaches kids the wrong way to plan and eat meals. Schools should be role models, not stoop to conventional or convenient policies."The writer wanted to show us that school aren't looking out for the children they only care for what benifits them best. Although, some argue that school lunch is convenient because parents are busy and have no time to make lunch.
http://www.lifescript.com/life/family/kids/is_school_food_bad_for_students.aspx

Schools Money Management on Kids Lunches

Have you ever wonder why as a child did we get junk foods like cupcakes for breakfast and pizza for lunch? At least, that's what I personally got everyday for school lunch. It was rare for kids to see healthy foods like salads, since the options for healthy foods was limited. Why was it limited? As you can see on the picture to my left side, instead of eating nutritious sandwich like the picture above. Some schools decided to spend their money on equipment like sprinklers. As sad as that is it gets worse, lately on the April 9, 2013 in a Massachusetts middle school some kids got turned away from school lunches because their parents didn't pay a dollar fee for their lunch. Personally, what the school is doing to these kids it's abuse just cause they feel the need to have the children's lunch money to cover unnecessary expenses like equipment's.    

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mC3RD_BEFYA 

 

 

"In most cases, the cash-strapped districts used the misappropriated funds to pay for other expenses, such as salaries and equipment"

"The cafeteria fund diversions have led to cost-cutting measures, such as shorter lunch periods, inadequate staffing and serving processed foods instead of fresh fruits and vegetables"

"The cases mentioned in the report may only represent a fraction of misappropriated meal money in California because the state doesn't have the resources to monitor how its nearly 3,000 school districts spend their cafeteria funds"

Chea, a reporter from the San Francisco newspaper, stated the quotes above how school use their money ineffectively affecting the children in the schools. In other words, kids don't eat healthy foods, and get shorter lunches because schools are trying to save money to pay their staff members or buy materialize items instead of caring for the children's well-being. 

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/02/06/california-misspect-lunch-money_n_2635578.html?utm_hp_ref=email_share

A Short Introduction/Backgroud About School Lunches

   

A friend of mine being on her last year of high school, told me that she was tired of the same food the school was providing for her. She believed it didn't contain the proteins she needed to give her enough energy to study through out the day. As we all know, most school lunches provide fast food because its financially beneficial for the school to supply cheap foods.

Also, parents don't have time to make lunch because they are working most of the time, so kids are always depending on school to provide nutritious food for them. Besides, it's convenient for some parents to let their kids eat at school because a school program provides their child free lunch.

"School lunch was at the forefront of news and media in 2012, as students complained about being served new foods they say lack flavor. The attempt to serve healthier meals in U.S. schools is aimed at combating obesity, with more fruits and vegetables served and a daily cap on calories. It has also meant smaller servings, prompting students in Wisconsin to boycott school lunches, and leading kids in Kansas to make a music video suggesting that they aren’t getting enough food at school." Kids are so use to fast foods that when schools tries to improve their diets, they refuse to eat it because they say it lacks of flavor. This indicates that schools have provided them unhealthy foods from the start for so long that their bodies got use to unhealthy foods, so when school tries to replace junk foods with healthy ones it tastes bad for them.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/07/healthy-school-lunch-amer_n_2426397.html

About Us

-Hey I'm Jacqui(for short) and I recently got my license. My major is Civil Engineer, but I'm aiming to get a Master's on Structural Engineering. I'm more of an active person, so I usually like to play any type of sports on my free time. One funny thing about me is that when I first came to U.S. and heard about wiener dogs, I thought American people where actually eating dogs. My first impression was how can they eat cute little dogs. After a while, I realize that they were referring to hotdogs instead of dogs. Doing this project was interesting for me because for the first time I know what's the reason most schools buy junk foods and also hearing from my teammates research I can see that school food values are different in other countries. Anyways, I just wanted to inform people that they should be more careful about what kids eat at schools, since they don't know the harms that it could do to their health. Mostly everyone can according that school lunches was funded by the government to provided the nutritional values that we have at home, but what some families don't realize is that schools buy foods that are cheap. That means unhealthy foods like chips, pizza, hamburger, chicken nuggets, etc. "As you can see, school lunches are made of mostly fast foods that take up to 51% of daily diets making kids become unhealthy". In other words, if you are a concern parent take action and demand that school lunches start to provide better nutrition's for your children like Obama Michelle. She is the white house lady and as she saw all this unhealthy eating habits that schools were having, she decided to take it upon herself to help children through out the country to start eating healthier. I hope that this blog brings knowledge of what is going on at some Americans school, the reasons behind it, and child's health.
http://www.sacbee.com/2012/07/08/4616281/california-school-lunches-missing.html

-My name is Yuk Cheung Lau and you can also call me Jack. I come from Hong Kong and I am 22 years old. My major is Finance and I am a freshmen. This is not my first year to study in America, I came to study in America when I was a sophomore in high school. I like the college life in America, students and teachers are really friendly and helpful here. I think I am going to be a businessman after I graduate. I enjoy the English 113A and 113B for my first year at CSUN. I've learnt a lot about writing skills and how to do well on the presentation. I think the blog and presentation we did this time is interesting and important for our daily life. It helped us to understand more about how to eat healthy during our daily life. My part was the questions and answers. I found out some information from the internet and got a couple of videos on YouTube. I found out there's a lot of school provide unhealthy school lunches to the students. It is really bad for the students because unhealthy food can cause them diseases, obesity and make them lack of energy. Healthy diet is important for all of us, I hope the government can find a way to solve the problem of school provide students unhealthy food.

-Hi I'm Yilin, a nice girl from China. This is my first year to study abroad. I'm glad that my spoken English is much better than yesterday. My major is Business Management. What I expect is to get a Bachelor's, and make many foreign friends during my college life. When the first time I came here, I was not used to American diet. Most of food in America is fast food, like hamburgers, French fries, chicken nuggets, coke and so on. It is totally different from Asian food. Like me, people in china always eat rice, meats, fishes, vegetables and soups as daily diet. I think that’s the reason why many people in America is fatter than those in other countries. Anyway, I’m interested to talk about this topic. It is a issue that kids can not get enough nutrition from school lunches. Indeed, I found many pictures show that school always provide kids fast food as their lunch. Because most of school lunches are funded by government, it is financially beneficial for the school to supply cheap food. Besides, parents are so busy in working that they don’t have enough time to prepare lunches for their kids. So people have to choose school lunches. However, I hope readers to realize that although it is convenient for kids to have lunch at school, it is bad for their health. Kids can’t get enough nutrition at lunch time and they will have no energy to spend the rest of the day. What’s more, I think it is important for government to change the food provided to kids. Kids can get more proteins and vitamins if there are more eggs, vegetables, fruits added in their school lunches. In addition, I suggest people in America can eat more grain food instead of junk food. Like rice, cereal, and bread. All in all, I hope this blog brings some suggestions to you to have a healthier diet than before.

-My name is Junxiao Shao. I am from China. I am a California State University student now. My major is finance. I want to be businessman in the future and make a lot of money. This is my first year in the Unite States. Before I came to the America, I already knew McDonald's, burger king and others American fast food. I thought I could be used to fast food in the US. But when I came here, I found I was not used to burger, pizza and steak everyday. I wanted to eat some rice, ripe vegetables, sauted meat and fish. I was very interested in what American people always eat at home or at school. So I choice “school lunch nutrition” this topic. I think international students and American students also were interested in it. After searched information, I found a lot of schools’ lunch is fast food. They were burger, pizza, chips and other no nutrition food. I think this is the reason why some people are fatter than other countries. I hope the government needs attention school lunch problems. It must be improvement. And I also hope more people can read our blog. We can attention school’s lunch problems together. We should be more concerned about the growth of the next generation. Because the country’s development requires youth. I hope every readers can like this blog and pay close attention to school lunch problems.