Persuasive Speech About School Lunches

Decent Essays
As students here at Harmony Science Academy (HSA) we like having delicious lunches that will fill us up. We have many suggestions for you and we would like you to fulfill them to make lunch better.

First of all, lunch is too expensive at this school. A majority of the people cannot afford the lunch or are in debt. Many of the people are poor and they would like the price to be reduced. The money could be used for a better cause. It could be used for helping in education instead.

The lunch at this school is low quality, as well. The food isn’t that good and it tastes and smells bad. It is falsely advertised as healthy. It doesn’t look or taste healthy. It is less healthy than home cooked meals. The brands sold here are also cheap. It is a bad brand and they sell it for three times the price at school.
…show more content…
It is not enough to fill up the students and they will stay hungry all day long. When they are hungry, they won’t concentrate as well as they should. The students won’t be at the highest potential they could be.

While some people say it is healthier than past lunches, this lunch tastes worse and won’t energize you. For example, if we had the people of past generations to try the food they would most likely say that it is bad and won’t get you through the day. They will also say that it is way more in price, but less the quality and quantity.

In conclusion, the lunch is too expensive, low quality, and low quantity. Better lunch will help the students focus and make the teachers be in a joyful mood. Many people say that it is fine, but higher quality lunches will help the school big

Related Documents

  • Superior Essays

    Schools are very good at buying whole foods in boxes, bags, and cans. But they are not so good at making things from scratch. “The majority of school kitchens in New York and elsewhere don't cook from scratch; they reheat prepared foods. “When I came every piece of chicken and fish was breaded, or fried, or has some coating on it,” he says. ”(Spake, 4).…

    • 2069 Words
    • 9 Pages
    Superior Essays
  • Improved Essays

    When looking at the money being given towards school lunches it is near $9 billion per year which would seem to be just enough to create a healthy meal plan for students. Since the new schedule was created at Fullerton students feel they have less time to get lunch so do not bother going off campus, therefore not eating lunch at all. Brody says that the obesity epidemic is present in America, and while that is true it most likely has very little to do with school lunches.…

    • 490 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Open Campus Lunch Essay

    • 920 Words
    • 4 Pages

    Choosing a healthy lunch is your choice. You should not have to be forced to eat food that is not necessarily good for you, or cooked completely. Some schools…

    • 920 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    For students who go to college whether they live on campus or they travel from home to school, most of the time they are in a tight budget where they cannot afford to be buying meals every day. They only can eat what is there in their school. Some campuses do not have lunches and only have vending machines. So what good does that food do to them? Others have only one meal a day which involves eating from the vending machines.…

    • 449 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Superior Essays

    School Lunches In America

    • 1560 Words
    • 7 Pages

    While the school lunch program is very convenient and helpful for children who need it, but it can definitely be improved. Contemporary Situation Today, the lunches provided at schools are mediocre and unhealthy. Ever since the Healthy, Hunger Free Kids Act was passed, schools have made efforts to make the school lunches healthier for the children. Students, however, are not responding well to these healthier lunches. This is causing schools to lose money because students are bringing their lunches from home more and more.…

    • 1560 Words
    • 7 Pages
    Superior Essays
  • Superior Essays

    School lunches will definitely not fill up a hungry student. What is the perfect solution? Allow open campus. This will allow students to run to the local quickshop, or their homes to grab a more desirable lunch. I intend to take my proposals to the school board and discuss possible outcomes for this situation.…

    • 1120 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Superior Essays
  • Improved Essays

    School Lunch In America

    • 901 Words
    • 4 Pages

    School lunch programs claim to have their focus on student health, when really, they are more concerned with cost and convince. To ensure that kids grow up healthy and reduce America’s obesity rate school lunch programs need to provide nutrition education and healthy foods to students. The Article posted on Time “An Abbreviated History of School Lunch in America” by Emelyn Rude this past September shows the way school lunches have been in America since they first became a part of the student’s life. This is interesting because it shows how school lunches started up and how they were originally planned to be, the article says, “These programs were shown to be not only providing growing bodies with nutritious foods, but they were also teaching…

    • 901 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Having fresh food to eat will make the students look forward to eating lunch every day. I remember being in middle school and refereeing to lunch as school food and not good food. If kids can look forward to eating lunch at school that would make the whole middle school experience that much better.…

    • 672 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    The first point is why there is unhealthy food in school lunches. a) The main reason for this is because unhealthy foods are a huge source of revenue to schools. b) The amount of money a school makes from federal reimbursements and fundraising isn’t enough to suffice their financial costs. Therefore they must rely on competitive foods, which are foods that are sold outside of school lunches.…

    • 1262 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    School lunches are an issue that the federal government has taken note of. Last year Michelle Obama implemented a program called “Let’s Move” mandate for healthier foods in schools. In 2014, there is a mandate that all unhealthy non-nutrient meals be taking out of school as well as vending machines with sugary snacks and sugary beverages have been removed. The occasional fundraiser such as bake sales are allowed but when schools don’t comply like in the example of Houston, Texas High Schools they are fined, Huffington Post advised, ”TDA got serious and imposed fines totaling $73,000 on eight Houston high schools for illegal competitive food sales.” After many fines and reports the schools are fined even bigger.…

    • 1031 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Longer School Lunches

    • 330 Words
    • 2 Pages

    Longer lunches. A longer lunch would be great right? More time to eat, hangout, and take a break, but there also health benefits that make me believe that we should have an extended lunch in our schools. Therefore students should get longer lunches There are many health benefits to having a longer lunch including, but not excluded to, the amount of time allows you to look for a healthier alternative to school lunch. Firstly, according to the Livestrongs article Pros and Cons of Longer Lunches, "Tossing some pizza in the oven and tater tots in the deep fryer doesn't…

    • 330 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    A lot of students do not like school lunches. Nothing against the lunch ladies ' ability to cook, but the options that come with school food are limited. It is a fact that at least one time a student has looked down at their tray and saw a slab of meat that looked like it came from a can of dog food. School lunch is unappetizing. It is super unfortunate if the food being served is something a student does not like.…

    • 836 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    The term “school lunch,” has had a negative connotation ever since I can remember. There’s much more to school lunch than gourmet salads or mystery meat. All over the United States schools serve lunch to a variety of different students, with different backgrounds, age groups and income. Just in one school the systematic arrangement of the lunch ladies and the policies set in place are just tiny specs of a much larger picture. The fact of the matter is, as children are developing they are being programmed and prepped for the rest of their lives.…

    • 1268 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    It’s not only that, though, but the cost of the lunches are not worth the quality of lunch that is being bought. Almost every argument for healthy school lunches aren’t good because they only think about what the student eats at school, not what they eat anywhere else. Essentially, healthy school lunches aren’t desirable in a student’s life which makes the student…

    • 1095 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    The current lunches that are often being offered at Western High School are unhealthy. The main diet at the school consists of fatty and sugary foods that supply little more than empty calories to the students. This implementation plan looks into the prospect of the Western High School implementing a new policy that will serve the students with healthier options during their lunch. The plan is informed by the theory that, intake of healthier foods results to the realization of better academic outcomes for students.…

    • 1108 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays