Dear Principal,
Are you really worried about what kind of vending machines are in the school? I seriously doubt it. Why don’t you just let kids choose for themselves on what they would rather eat? If they want to eat junk food, let them. They’re doing it to themselves, so let them make their own choices. Although a healthy vending machine would look better on the school, many students don’t like fruit or other kinds of healthy things. It’ll all just depend on what y’all choose to put in it.
Personally, I don’t care what kind of vending machine is in the school building because I don’t use them anyway, but since I have to choose one or the other, I feel like students would be more apt to get themselves something to eat or drink if they had something that they actually like. The vending machines that you are considering “junk food” aren’t really that bad. No student is going to want to eat just fruit and something healthy for lunch. They will want something that will actually fill them up so they aren’t hungry all throughout the day. A lot of students don’t like school lunches so they’d rather have something else to eat but when they go to the vending machine and there is nothing for them to eat for lunch, they just don’t eat at all and that’s worse for the body than what is in the “junk food” vending machine. Students would rather be able to grab a bag of chips or something along those lines because that’s more filling than healthy food. It shouldn’t matter to you what a student prefers to eat, it’s their life, their body. They should be aloud to eat whatever they want to.
Students in high school are typically responsible enough to know what they can and can’t have or should and shouldn’t have. There’s no need in making them feel like the only thing they can eat is fruit and things that are good for them. What teenager wants to eat only healthy food? None of them. Don’t limit the choices for someone on what they can eat. Their health shouldn’t concern you; they should eat whatever they feel is good at the time. The healthy vending machine that you think is just so great, doesn’t give students a variety of choices like they should be given. I don’t know why you all of the sudden seem to care about what students are eating because no one has ever cared in the past. Whether or not you put a “healthy” vending machine or a “junk food” vending machine, the students eating habits at home aren’t going to change. You may think that a healthy vending machine is just such a great idea but all it’s doing is causing students to not eat at all.
The idea behind a healthy vending machine isn’t all that good. The only benefit the school gains is that it looks better on the school in general, but the benefits for the students are none. You think you know what is good for us but you don’t.
Thanks, Jeri