Charlie O’Halloran
4W
The central claim of the editorial is the author supporting Bill de Blasio’s idea to require all public schools to serve free breakfast in the classroom, instead of the cafeteria before school. Supporters of this change think it is needed because so few eligible children take advantage of free cafeteria breakfasts and no child should be learning on an empty stomach.
There wasn’t much evidence in this editorial, it was almost all opinion. The best evidence it had was comparing New York (where de Blasio is running for mayor) to other towns who have this breakfast in the classroom program, like Newark and Los Angeles. The author feels New York has no reason to fall behind a city like Newark that is poor but still has a model breakfast program.
I think breakfast in the classrooms is a bad idea because even though I 100% agree that every kid needs to eat, I think the “free meal” program at schools is a better system. I think every school needs to have a free meal program for kids whose families struggle with money, and the school should make an effort to make sure every family who needs this is getting it. If a student wants to eat in class that’s fine but taking time to eat takes away time and there could be so many parent complaints, such as the food being too unhealthy. I also personally don’t like to eat in the morning and I know a lot of people who balance their meals differently, but if a kid doesn’t want to eat in the morning they’ll probably just be judged or forced to eat, which is so unfair. Bill de Blasio argues barely anyone takes advantage of the free breakfast program, (which judging from our school I don’t think is really true) I feel like if a kid knows there’s breakfast at school they need to be the one to take advantage of it. If it’s a hard family situation and they get to school late or really close to the beginning of the day, I feel the cafeteria needs to stay open and the teacher needs to understand and excuse them.
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