Sunday, December 5, 2010
School Nutrition
School meals and how nutrious they are can have a huge effect on our students and their behaviors within our classrooms. I work with a very low-income district. We serve free breakfast to all of our students, about 68% receive free or reduced lunch, and with this percentage we could serve dinner as well, but that is such a huge task to take on that we have not went there yet, but we might possible have to in the future. Therefore, with so many families needing assistance, nutrition is very important at school, eating the right foods to stay healthy because at home they normally not getting much to eat, if anything at all. Furthermore, many of the times the food at home is not all that healthy for them,so in reality it is not helping out the child in the long run. So with congress approving a school nutrition bill for after school meals, will we be feeding our students dinner as well? We shall see...
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That is so sad. I hope that meals the children eat at school are okay. I am on the opposite end of the spectrum. Yesterday our dean emailed a picture of 6 bowls of cereal that had been wasted during one lunch period. Students are careless and spill their cereal when getting it out of the container. We have a slogan, "Love food, hate waste." We post it all over the lunch room. We also have our Service Learning class measure wasted food in the trash throughout the year. Today I took my 7th Graders to do community service at a local food bank. I'm thankful for such places but the food wasn't all that healthy. I want to get more involved this summer and volunteer at a garden that donates to the same food bank. Can you kids take food home on the weekends? I know we dontate to a backpack program.
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