This year more students at Falls church have been waiting in line either for lunch or breakfast now that it’s free and more students have been walking with there breakfast to class.

Some schools in FCPS  are participating in the Community Eligibility Provision (CEP) which provides all students at a school with free meals every school day with no charge at all. Students at these schools don’t need to submit an application form for them to receive free meals. Instead, any student at Falls Church can get free breakfast and lunch this year.

Since there has been an uprising of students getting lunch and breakfast, all schools should start giving free meals because it helps our students focus and it benefits the students.

“All schools should provide free lunch and breakfast as it’s a major benefit for the students,” Miles Alexander (11) said.

Many people think schools around the U.S. should start giving free lunch and breakfast so that students can focus more on their academics. Students should not have to worry about paying for their lunch. All schools should remember that there are kids that don’t eat anything at all because they don’t have any money to pay for their school lunch and they might not have anything to eat at home.

Many believe schools should use their taxpayers dollars for free lunch and breakfast for students. It would make them focus better but there are more ways to help students focus better. If there isn’t enough money coming in then there should be no free lunch or breakfast.

“More schools around the world should give free lunch and breakfast but should be covered by taxpayer dollars,” Jeevesh Kanhai (12) said.

There are different stations in the school where kids can get their breakfast and there are some students that go to every station to get seconds or they either ask their friend if they got breakfast so that they can get theirs this shows that students are very hungry and that they ask for more. If schools didn’t have free meals all of these students would try to learn while hungry.

It’s important to think about if students have had something to eat throughout the day. When school food wasn’t free there would be kids that would get free food and others would question, which would make them feel uncomfortable. Many students and teachers at FC believe schools giving free food to students is a good idea, because there are also kids that wake up late,  don’t have time,  or they don’t have anything to eat.