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Essay / Redefining the School Function: An Essay on Education Reform
Garland proposes that lunch be prepared for students in a healthy manner, that schools sell only healthy and nutritious meals, and that lunch be a learning about nutrition. I think having lunch chosen for you doesn't prepare students for what comes after school, choosing your own lunch and groceries each week. Lunch taught me a lot of things. I once ordered only dessert at my high school because I was craving chocolate, and of course chocolate tastes better than an apple and a salad. Later that day, I came home with a very bad stomach ache from eating too much sugar and chocolate at lunch. This experience taught me how to eat more nutritionally healthy and take a nutrition class. If I hadn't experienced this stomach ache from the unhealthy foods I ate for lunch, I would never have learned to choose my foods for myself. It is my freedom to choose the nutritional foods I want. Garland explains that we shouldn't take a lunch break; we should continue our learning about nutrition, but why not let students rest for an hour between their 5 hours of school. Why not just let students take a nutrition class and then rest for