a.) Waters, Alice. "A Healthy Constitution." The Nation, 21 Sept. 2009.
Waters believes that schools should not only have school lunch reform but also include food education throughout the curriculum. She claims that having food edu. will teach students "values that are central to democracy" and that organizations such as the Chez Panisse Foundation will help to teach students those values.
b.) Walters claims that food can be used to teach democratic values such as responsibility, sharing, and stewardship. Responsibility through growing and preparing the food and helping to set the table and cleaning up afterwards. Sharing through helping provide for everyone and learning how to work together to provide meals. Through food education, they also learn that "cooperation with one another is necessary to nurture the community." Walters also claims that healthy food leads to better performance in classrooms. She uses Central Alternative High School in Appleton, WI as an example of how, when student are given locally grown and fresh food, they did better in class and had less disciplinary issues. I think if Waters had included some statistics to back up her claim it would have made a stronger argument.
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