Compare & Contrast Essay : The Free School Meals

       The Free school Meals

By Jun

       In our parents and grandparents generation, they went to school and took a lunch box when they were students. Because of poverty in this generation, their side dish was almost always Kimchi, boiled rice and cereal. Later on in time, in mid 90s, students received lunch from school. Nowadays, school meals are free for students. However free school meals have several problems.

  

       One of the problems is that school meals' quality is decreasing. For example, because of pork or beef's high price and shortages in payment estimates, some companies which offer food for schools don't make nutritious food and don't make a variety of types of Korean side dishes. Therefore, the news often broadcasts stories about meal quality. School lunch is connected with students' health and nutrition so, It is an important problem.

  

       Second, budget which are spent in school are limited. These budgets are used for educational expenses, labor costs and maintenance of institution costs like heating&cooling systems or electricity costs. However, because of free school meals, educational expenses and the maintenance of institution costs have been decreasing. Because of this, students have complaints about the heating&cooling systems in classes. And in addition to this, Teachers in class have problems with shortages of educational materials.

  

       The last, related to the method of how to use a tax usefully. Before the government started free school meals, under privileged students already got free meals from the government. And the rich and the middle class have enough to live their lives and also eat school charged meals. There are many people who need the money or who should get welfare benefits, but it is used on people who don't need it. It's a waste of money.

 

       It's a everyone's hope who raises a students that children get a high quality education and nutritive meals. But now Free school meals is not effective for their class. Not only the school surroundings are going to bad but also the lunch in school is going to have low quality. Therefore, Free school meals must be abolished now. Because free school meals have several problems.