Why school meal is important for your child?

Imagine a mother whose child is in school. How do you think what her thoughts are about: is my child hungry/thirsty and isn’t he ill or something happened with him etc. undoubtedly the first question is very popular to all parents. The reason is we know that a child who is hungry can’t concentrate on the learning process. But do you know why exactly school meal crucial for child?

Undoubtedly, eating is the key factor of a happy and healthy life for every inhabitant of the Earth. Children are the life for their parents. Children eating healthy food regularly are the irreplaceable image for parents. School meal has the potential to play a pivotal role in the diet and healthy eating of children and in their academic achievement.

In the US, there are two programs (National School Lunch Program and School Breakfast Program) that provide a quality, nutritionally balanced and almost free price meal in schools (Hanger Action Network, 2015). It is a pivotal guarantee both for children and parents: parents that their children are not hungry and eat healthy food, for children that they are not sitting alone and eating yesterday’s pasta, but they are socialize and take a very interesting lunch with their friends. By the above mentioned organization, every day there are 27 million children who have healthy food in 96,000 schools. They also follow the dietary programs that count with the special proposals of children. There are many organizations like these, that against starvation in the World.

The most of the studies show that children need proper nutrition for the better development and academic achievements. Also the statistics show that over thousand of million children in the world are starving. That is why there are the following benefits of school meal:

1.      Properly organized family budget do to the low cost of school meal

2.      Healthy meals form breakfast to lunch

3.      Proven to influence on the achievements of children according to the web site of Sheridan High School

There are an enormous number of advantages of school meal. All the developed countries understood the pivotal factors of the mealing of young generation. However, in Kazakhstan, this type of system is not yet developed. Mealing system works just in few private schools and in general public schools in secondary education level.  However I do believe that in the near future the situation will change and the government will provide a good meal for our children. Children are the flowers of a bright future. They will flourish depending on how we will shower our flower.

References

Federal Nutrition Programs - Hunger Action Network of New ... (n.d.). Retrieved April 26, 2015, from http://www.hungeractionnys.org/federal.htm

SHS Importance of School Meals | SCSD#2. (n.d.). Retrieved April 26, 2015, from http://www.scsd2.com/sheridan-high-school/services/school-meals/importance-of-school-meals/