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Free Lunches for Students from Low-Decile Schools
Introduction:
Decile schools are known to assist the decile educational establishments to overcome the major barriers of the educational process faced by students pertaining to low socio-economic homes. Thus, free lunches at low-decile schools have caused many debates in regards to the advisability of such funding.
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• One of the arguments for the application of free lunch programs at low-decile schools related to the fact that children pertaining to low-income households obtain the opportunity to have at least one healthy meal a day.
• Free lunches provide low-income families with the guarantee that their child will be taken care of at school as well as permit parents to save money
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Decile schools are known to assist the decile educational establishments to overcome the major barriers of the educational process faced by students pertaining to low socio-economic homes. Thus, free lunches at low-decile schools have caused many debates in regards to the advisability of such funding.
One of the arguments for the application of free lunch programs at low-decile schools relates to the fact that children pertaining to low-income households obtain the opportunity to have at least one healthy meal a day. It is widely known that nutrition play an outstanding role in the child physical development and well being, which consequently has a direct, effect on the child’s cognitive processes (Curtin, 2014). Thus, the failure to supply the growing organism with proper nutrition has a devastating effect on the child’s health as well as he academic performance. It is known that nine percent of children attending low-decile schools come to their schools being hungry and the opportunity to have a free healthy meal is a solution to the financial inability of the family to provide for the child. At the same children coming from low-income homes, obtain a minimal chance to have equal educational conditions as compared to the children that bring their lunch from home
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As sometimes parent do not have time and financial resources to properly feed their children, these programs become the only source for obtaining healthy meals and thus the only way to ensure properly developing both intellectually and physically. Notwithstanding the fact that is may imply additional costs for the taxpayers the future of the nation is priceless in terms of health and academic performance. The stability of the country depends on the individuals that tomorrow will become the working class of adolescents and providing them with free lunches now indeed has the capacity of equaling their chances in becoming efficient citizens in the future.
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Shuttleworth, K. (2012, Aug.28). Free food call for low-decile schools. The New Zealand Herald. Retrieved from http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10829909
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Laden, Greg. "Children from Low-income Families at Educational Disadvantage." Science Blog. N.p., 26 Dec. 2008. Web. 8 Jan. 2014.
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"National School Lunch Act." Poverty and the Government in America: A Historical Encyclopedia. Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 2009. Credo Reference. Web. 21 January 2014.
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