Canteens Should Be Allowed In Schools Essay

A school canteen can be a large part to a student’s day in school. The canteen provide the nutritional needs that a student needs to survive with full energy, endurance, strength and fortitude to last the whole day in school. But there are instances that the school canteen doesn’t provide enough nutrition to students, there are cases that students are left with expensive choices of canteen delicacies to eat. This part of the campus or university can sometimes have the largest amount of students daily, every lunch time, the students need to go through minutes of waiting to buy their lunches, with the crowded place and not enough spaces for the students to eat their lunch to.

An article by Peterson (2012), an ACT School Meeting was held and led by ACT P&C President Vivienne Pearce; stated that the said issue had been building up for years that most students are faced with expensive choices of meals or just left with no choice at all. Pearce also said that part of the problems lie in the piecemeal approach to providing food at schools. Each ACT school decides

This having been said, its clear that the Germans do care about the nutrition that students gain from their school canteens and that they focus on how much nutrition a meal has before serving it to students that influences their pupil to have more nutrition that their body needs. A balanced and age-based diet is not only a basis prerequisite for healthy physiological development and performance according to Heindl (2003), in addition to this context, students or more likely younger pupils are most attracted to unhealthy food like junk foods, candies and soda drinks, provided by school canteens that leads to unnecessary purchasing of unhealthy