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Concerns about the long-term health consequences of being overweight have ignited a debate about school policies that make junk
Concerns about the long-term health consequences of being overweight have ignited a debate about school policies that make junk
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2021-02-24
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Concerns about the long-term health consequences of being overweight have ignited a debate about school policies that make junk food available to students in school. The following are opinions from different sides. Read the excerpts carefully and write your response in about 300 words, in which you should:
1. summarize briefly the different opinions;
2. give your comment.
Marks will be awarded for content relevance, content sufficiency, organization and language quality. Failure to follow the above instructions may result in a loss of marks.
Kushner: With expert groups such as the Obesity Society urging policymakers to take into account the complex nature of the obesity epidemic, especially the interplay of biological and social factors that lead individuals to developing the disease, it is time for governments to urge schools to put their education into practice and give students an environment that allows them to make the healthy choices they learn in class.
Stolberg: Schools should educate about healthy choices, not make them on the students’ behalf. What the schools should be doing is putting more emphasis on getting the message of the importance of a healthy lifestyle across. Our kids should be taught that this lifestyle consists of more than just whether or not we choose to eat a hamburger and fries for lunch. In short, this ban falls short of truly educating the children about how important physical activity, balanced meals and indulging in moderation are.
They should also focus on the importance of choice, since in the case of childhood obesity, making the right nutritional and lifestyle choice is of paramount importance. But they should also focus on the importance of choice for a society and how all should take responsibility for their choices in such a society.
Fitzgerald: The simple reason is that our kids are increasingly looking not to their parents, but schools and the environment they provide, for advice on how to live their lives. There is a growing body of evidence linking a healthy lifestyle, comprising of both adequate nutrition and physical exercise, with improved memory, concentration and general academic performance. A study has shown that when primary school students consume three or more junk food meals a week, their literacy and numeracy scores dropped by up to 16% compared to the average.
This is a clear incentive for governments to push forward for healthier meals in schools for two reasons. The first obvious benefit is to the students, whose better grades award her improved upward mobility—especially important for ethnic groups stuck worst by the obesity epidemic and a lower average socioeconomic status. The second benefit is to the schools, who benefit from standardized testing scores and reduced absenteeism, as well as reduced staff time and attention devoted to students with low academic performance or behavior problems and other hidden costs of low concentration and performance of students.
Harris; Even though schools may be able to coerce and compel their pupils to comply with disciplinary measures, they cannot stop children from buying sweets beyond school hours. When rules at an Orange county school changed, and the cafeteria got rid of its sweets, the demand was still up high, so that the school had to figure out a way to fix the situation. They created a "candy cart"—which now brings them income for sports equipment or other necessities. One of the pupils, Edgar Coker (18-year-old senior) explained that: "If I couldn’t buy it here, I’d bring it from home."
Write your response on ANSWER SHEET FOUR.
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Should Junk Food Be Made Available to Students in Schools? The obesity epidemic is phenomenally prevalent among teenagers who most often than not take a sedentary lifestyle with a diet abound in junk food. Could introducing prohibition to junk food in schools curb the seemingly indulgent lifestyle? It is argued that the weaknesses of the disciplinary measure far outweigh its strengths, as it will not solve the dilemma confronted in the real society, nor have a genuine understanding of the bad need for junk food, instead, only triggering teenagers’ revolting curiosity for consumption. Those who clap their hands for the banning of junk food in schools assert that the school policy would echo with the widespread concerns towards the obesity epidemic, particularly beneficial to students with improved academic achievements as well as the school authority with less budget on the delinquent or poor students. Nonetheless, others state that more emphasis should be put on the education of a healthy lifestyle and the high demand for the junk food in schools. Actually, the prohibitive method employed is not an omnipotent cure to the obesity epidemic and the symptoms involved. In essence, one purpose of education is to enable the students to acquire the ability to tell what is right from wrong, including keeping a healthy diet selecting from nutritious food and the counterpart, in a real dilemma, as school serves as the miniature of society rather than the secluded bubble in the vacuum. Otherwise, the consumption shall be sanctioned as well as the depressed need behind the junk food, which possibly involves the release from the academic pressure, the sense of belonging among peers by sharing snacks like junk food. What is worse, as ample precedence in the form of other "sin" taxes which are used for fees tacked on to popular vices like drinking, gambling and smoking, teenagers label the forbidden as the particular coat of arms for their longing for adulthood. The interdict on junk food subsequently would be distorted as an revolting flag to a short-cut into adolescence, resulting in more disastrous consumption unexpected. To conclude, the brutal prohibition of the consumption of junk food in schools would misrepresent the purpose, the approach, as well as the need of the educated in the pedagogical setting.
解析
本题讨论学校里面是否应该有垃圾食品的问题,属于校园生活类话题。本题要求简要概括所给材料中的两种观点,并发表自己的看法。在具体的写作过程中,考生可以开篇点明社会现象,并提出论点:禁止垃圾食品弊大于利;第二段简要阐述正反两种观点;第三段重点阐述自己对这一问题的看法,并说明理由;最后一段总结全文,重申观点。
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