Should Students Be Allowed to Eat In Class?
February 13, 2017
Have you ever been in a rush to get to school? You didn’t have time to eat breakfast? Well good news, you’re not alone. Many students have this issue, and you end up coming to school with a hungry tummy. So, students should be able to eat a snack during class.
Coming to school hungry has many problems. You can not concentrate during class because your stomach is rumbling, and you keep counting down the minutes until the next class. Closer and closer to lunch, you don’t pay attention because you are hungry and can’t wait to eat. This is an issue because you are paying more attention to how hungry you are, and not about the lesson you are learning during class.
“Some students get hungry in class and can’t help that. They need some food in their system or they won’t be able to function properly in class. The more you get hungry and don’t eat you start starving and can’t do things like normally. Watch what your student is doing or if you trust them just let them eat and make sure they don’t leave a mess if they do just have them to clean it up.” -Debate.org
It is also proven that a student that has not eaten is more likely to not succeed as well as a student who has eaten. Thus, creating my statement that students should be allowed to eat in class.
“It is barely second period and your stomach is dying of hunger. In the morning, to be in school on time, a lot of students skip breakfast and usually starve until they reach their lunch period.” – Jaguar Journal
Having a snack in class can help a student concentrate as long as it is not distracting. Pretzels are a great snack because they are not messy, they are not candy and they don’t make a loud sound, whereas cheetos are messy and loud.
So, letting a student have a snack during class is a good idea, to help them concentrate so they are not hungry or counting down the minutes until lunch.
“Snacking is important for children because they have smaller stomachs than adults and cannot necessarily eat enough to stay full in one meal or sitting. They should be able to snack every three to four hours over the course of the day. Snacking throughout the day not only ensures kids stay full, it also helps them learn healthy eating habits, like eating appropriate amounts and only when they’re hungry. Small, healthy snacks throughout the day prevent patterns of boredom eating, or eating based on emotional factors.” – Healthy Eating
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We should most definitely be able to eat in class teachers can then so can us students.
I think kids should be able to eat in class!
no cause its un helthy
it depends what you are eating
I think students should be allowed to eat in class because it gives them energy for the day (somewhat)
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We should eat
“Snack time” would be nice too lol!
Yeah I’m writing a paper on this in school and that really helped me write this paper
i think we should be able to eat becaise it is more likely to get a migraine when you miss meals, especially when your missing the most important meal of the day.
what is wrong with kids eating in class, i think we should be able to and if we make a mess, they can just have us clean it up
I like food
Students should be able to eat in class. It is very hard to learn on an empty stomach.
yasss i think kids should be allowed to eat in class it can make them have better grades only if its healthy
They shouldn’t be allowed to. You should be responsible to go to the kitchen and make your self breakfast. If you don’t have time in the morning, do it the night before. eating in class can cause many problems such as it becoming distracting to others which can take away from their learning too.
Well not everyone has the time or the power to do that. Maybe they are unable to gett something because they don’t have anything to eat. Ever heard of free lunch?
students should be allowed to eat cause some of us dont eat breakfast in the morning.
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I totally agree, students need a good breakfast to flourish in class.
i like food
i eat in class no matter what
This is very helpful for my writing i have to at class
My teacher at americana Mrs.Murphy said that we shouldn’t have snacks in class because she doesn’t like the smell
this article really help me for my writing structure.
Yes, cause we get hungry too, some of my teachers eat, why can’t us students, because it’s kinda hard to try to eat behind their backs.
i love food we should be able to eat
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we should be alowed bc we just can
I think us students should have snacks during class. Whenever I get hungry I start thinking more about when lunch starts than my actual work. Yes I think we should be able to bring our own snacks and be able to eat them if we (students) don’t make it an problem.
I think every school should have snack during classes
Us students should be allowed to eat like the teachers do in front of us
student’s should eat food in class because i love food and food is so good yay food☕
well on my opinion i positively think that people just skip their lunch is because that think that they are fat and i know this because i have friends that do that and they are losing a lot of their weight so yes students need to eat;in class!
i hate that the kids can not eat in there classes
food should be allowed because we could us the energy
Why should we ban snack time. Teacher or janitors get stuck cleaning up kids mess!
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I definitely think that students should be allowed to eat during class. I’m in 5th grade and always coming late to class sometimes still hungry even though I ate something. I strongly agree with You Bailey.
I think that eating in class does really stimulate your brain, not only that but teachers eat in class all the time so why can’t we?!
The teachers can eat whenever they want why can’t thw kids. We should be allowed to eat in class but if you get distracted you have to put it away.
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Students should eat during class
We should be allowed to eat because some kids get mad when they dont eat
No
Same I’m writing about this I think students should be able 2 eat in class
Why shouldn’t kids have food in class like the teachers?
Yeah, I am not allowed to eat in class and I am DYING OF HUNGER HERE
I’m in year 3 and the teachers eat in front of us students/kids when teaching when we forget to bring our snacks outside the teacher has no problem with us eating in class so why can we eat anything else. When we don’t bring a snack the teacher sais oh well you have to go out and I usually cry I’m only 8 and my teachers name is Miss.Sinfield and her real name is Helen and Miss.Sinfields helper is called Miss.Conroy. I dont know what Miss.Conroys real name is and I dont know what their problem is with eating in the classroom….
I think students should, I’m in high school and I need to get up pretty early already and still don’t have enough time to eat breakfast. I normally have to try and be eat on the bus or sneak it in class, but it’s pretty hard and if you get caught at my school you get a after school detention after a few times. Students should get to snack in class but if they are making a mess or being very detracting then they should have some sort of punishment. Students should not have to be hungry and still have to wait a few hours till their lunch period. Obviously if it becomes a regular thing that students are always eating in class it may be because they are just bored. Teachers should pay attention to it but still allows students to eat. (Srry this is rlly long)
we should not be able to eat because it is messy and a distraction and I am in 4th grade I used to be on your side but now I am not because I am on zoom and one time a bug came in the classroom because we did not pick up our trash… also never eat chips in class because it is noisy and very messy
bro for the people that say we shouldnt eat in class…. You guys are dumb._.
yes be case when dont eat i get weak and i cant work
we like food but food doesn’t like me
Yes
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Students should be able to eat in class because teachers often will eat things in front of students making them more hungry and they have 3 hours till lunch
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If you dis agree with eating in class and it being a distraction, then go get a life and if you wanna act like a karen then go call the cops i guess. I am in 6th grade and eat lunch before 11:30 end school time is 3:55 so my class is very hungry at the end and it being distraction of hunger and waiting for 3:55 is a bigger deal than hearing a crunch of a chip
Snacks should be allowed in school!
What I do, since we don’t do snack time at my school is, during our transition time from one class to the next I eat a snack I have in my pocket; or I ask the teacher to “get some water” when really I’m stuffing my hungry self with snacks I packed for myself
I agree. Even though I eat breakfast everyday, I can’t seem to get enough nutrients to not be hungry until lunchtime.
I think I get to eat in class because I miss breakfast sometimes cuz there is nothing to eat so when I get to school and get breakfast there but I am still hungry.