Changing the School Lunch Menu for the Better

By The Northwest Press Editorial Staff       Published February 3, 2020

Northwest Career and Technical Academy is known for their great programs and good school for educational purposes. Yet, there is one thing that needs to change and that is the lunch menu. Not only is the school lunch not good, but it can affect our abilities of learning and focusing in school. 

Every adult, teacher or guardian tells you to eat a healthy meal to be able to stay focused and perform better in school. The lunch that the school serves the hawk students is not a healthy meal that would benefit them. The school should reconsider changing the menu and giving the students something way better.

Bringing lunch from home is a limited choice for some students for reasons like not having the time to make a meal or not having enough food for a complete meal. Making a meal at home to bring to school every day starts getting expensive. “The reason I don’t bring lunch is, my mom and dad can’t really afford to buy home lunch”, says Carlos Cota Diaz, one of the students who eat school lunch. 

Diaz says eating lunch gets him through the day and helps him focus even more. Still, he thinks the school can do better in serving the students.

There are some changes he would like the school to make. “Maybe instead of pizza as an everyday item, they should have something to replace it once in a while,'' says Diaz. Having pizza everyday is not healthy and gets boring and most of the time the second choice on the menu is not favorable. 

A numerous freshman including Diaz, can agree that the school offers the same food options as their middle school.”The school lunch is good, but not the greatest, honestly I’ve tried better in elementary school where they would give you a variety of desserts then now,” says Diaz. Some freshman students expected Northwest to have better food.

Countless of the students at Northwest don’t eat lunch because they think the food is not good. “Emerging research suggests that there are certain foods that when consumed on a regular basis will deliver the proper nutrients needed to help you maintain your ability to concentrate.” says Psychology Compass. Changing the school menu to something better can benefit the students and the teachers.