Hunter Kingsley

2/8/19

Period 5

Should Schools Serve Breakfast

To be as safe as possible, schools should feed kids breakfast but it should be in the cafeteria.
Advocates for schools serving morning meals believe “it is the most effective way to make sure all
children are ready to learn and fed” (Teachers, parents serve mixed reactions to breakfast in classrooms
2). Evidence that schools should do this can be seen in other parts of America, such as Kansas City.
There, a study showed “that one in four kids in Kansas City did not have enough food at home” which is
why schools serving the kids would be a massive help (For these police in Kansas City, child hunger is
Public Enemy Number 1 2).

On the contrary, other families believe that schools should not feed the kids in the classrooms.
Parties who denote schools doing this claim “the program took away instructional time from low-income
and English-learner students” (Teachers, parents serve mixed reactions to breakfast in classrooms 2).
The group is “also worried about unsanitary classrooms” (Teachers, parents serve mixed reactions to
breakfast in classrooms 3). Through it all, schools should feed students in the morning if the student
chooses to go to the cafeteria and eat. Pastor Abraham Sesay, who is a principle at Disapora community
school in Montserrado County in Liberia, states that students who have been fed a meal “return to class
with eager minds” (Nadene Ghouri 3). The students should get to choose at the beginning of the day to
either purchase a meal and eat it, or return to the classroom to work in a dedicated study hall.