Summary Of School's Out For Author By Quindlen

The Purpose In Anna Quindlen’s essay “School’s Out for the Summer”, Anna’s main purpose for writing this essay was to hit points and discuss a huge problem that kids all of this country are facing throughout the summer days. She talks about how children eat at the beginning and middle of a school day but when the summer comes around that’s not always the case and many kids go through the day hungry and feeling as if they’re starving because they were use to being feed at school everyday. “Families are struggling in a way they haven’t done for a long time”.

“The school lunch program, begun in the 1970s as a result of bipartisan federal legislation, has been by most measures an enormous success. For lots of poor families it’s become a way to count on at least getting one decent meal into their children, and when it disappears it’s catastrophic,” (page 224) In the essay “Schools out for the Summer” Quindlen writes about the problem of hunger in the USA.

Summer Time is Starving Time Anna Quindlen’s essay “School’s Out for Summer” touches on a very important topic in America through current and rough times. Her soul purpose for writing the essay is to get the word out about how children are starving from schools letting out for the summer. Many excellent pieces of evidence are used to bring her point across to the reader.

She talks about how the children who don’t eat much at home usually eat Breakfast and lunch at school, to fill them up, but when school is out in the summer hunger becomes a big issue for the children because they don’t have any food to eat,“But that sort of summer has given way to something more difficult”. Some

During the recession years back our family hit rough times where some nights there would be dinner, other nights we would not have dinner. When we did eat, it was not always the healthiest of meals or it was quick and easy take-out food. Food insecurity speaks to almost every family in America at some point in their lifetime and every individual has a different affliction and understanding of

In America, people talk amongst themselves about wealthy and successful people and during the discussion many think of people who have been educated in a traditional schooling system. John Gatto argues in his article “Against School” that this traditional schooling is indeed not necessary to end up educated and successful. Through the use of rhetorical strategies, such as his personal experiences, expert testimony, and anecdotes, Gatto backs up and argues in points. Gatto begins his article by talking about his personal experiences as a teacher and how the education system let him down. Gatto states “The obligations to amuse and instruct myself was entirely my own, and people who didn’t know that were childish people.”

Child hunger in America is not something that you can just sweep under the rug, as well as child hunger in other parts of the world. Many schools have financial aid for lunch for families that live in poverty, meaning that a child may receive lunch free or at a reduced price. This is very beneficial for kids while they are in school but when school is out, those benefits are no longer available to them. “During

In the film documentary “A Place at the Table” it is reminding to us that there is food insecurity in the United States and it is not being looked upon in the right dictation. It does not just talk about having a hard time with food insecurity, but also not being able to get food with enough nutrition. In the film Barbie who told her story in the film said that “Hunger: it’s right here in the United States. It could be right next door and you would never know because people are too afraid to talk about it.”

She also states that, “A food bank in Connecticut gave away four thousand more turkeys than the year before- and still ran out of birds.” She uses this statistic to show that not only is hunger a big problem, it's a growing problem. There's a mentality here in the US, the greatest nation on the earth, that asking for help is something to be frowned upon. Anna Quindlen goes on to say “Some don't want or seek government help because of the perceived stigma. ”She also says “The parents themselves are loath to talk:

According to the Economic research service of the U.S department of Agriculture that the family had at times, “limited or uncertain access to adequate food, caused by either economic or social conditions.” In other words the family didn’t always have enough food to feed everyone. Among households with children, one in five 7.8 million households were food insecure. (Hunger Pg.1) How can so many Americans be hungry in a country whe4re obesity is an

Against School by John Gatto is an essay that attempts to persuade the reader that public education fails to educate its students. The main way Gatto tries to persuade his audience is by presenting anecdotal evidence and by showing the historical narrative to the education system of the Untied States. Gatto attempts also attempts to reach out to his audience by referring to commonalities in the public education system that have been experienced by many people. Overall the essay is persuasive but lacks any practical authority. The first thing the author does is provide background, background on himself and the situation with education in the United States; and, this is what the author primarily does.

In the discussions of food insecurity, one controversial issue has been the prevalent misconception of why people are suffering from obtaining nutritious food on a consistent basis. On one hand, Frank Eltman, a writer for the Business facet of the Huffington post, argues that university students are facing food insecurity due to college expenses exponentially rising within the past decade. On the other hand, Adam Appelhanz, a police officer featured in the documentary “A Place at the Table,” contends that due to budget constraints he has not received a pay raise in the last four years, and is now inevitably utilizing a local food bank in order to ensure that he has something to eat each month. Others even maintain that food insecurity is synonymous

“Anyone can perform good deeds for an audience; the best among us do their greatest work when no one is present to bear witness.” –Ken Poirot Today, 1 in every 6 people in America face hunger. The USDA defines “food insecurity” as the lack of assess, at times, to enough food for all household members. In 2011, households with children reported a significantly higher food insecurity rate than households without children: 20.6% vs 12.2%. In 2013, 17.5 billion households were food insecure and 49 million Americans struggled to put food on the table every day.

Students lunches are being downgraded every year. The United States has one of the cheapest school lunch programs around the world. An Article called The Real Problem with School Lunches talks about how “we criticize schools ' reliance on highly processed, heat- 'n '-eat food, but cooking from scratch requires adequate cold storage and food preparation facilities, as well as trained workers” (Siegel). This shows that we complain so much on how the food is prepared but the government as well as every individual does not want to pay the price. Also “school meals in other countries fascinate us because they reflect a society 's true food culture, as well as its regard for its children” (Siegel).

The quality and nutrition of lunch at Lawton Community Schools, and many other schools, needs to be improved. With recent changes been made to the nutritional standards in school lunches, it seems that schools are increasing nutrition, but decreasing quality. “A recent USA Today investigation found that the nation’s largest fast-food chains have higher quality and safety standards for the meat … than what the U.S. Department of Agriculture has for the meat used for the National School Lunch Program...” (Buffenbarger). The food we serve our kids across the country has regulations, but all in the wrong places.