SWA 12

1)   Healthy eating improves the lives of students.

-       Better food choices makes the children happier and less sick.

-       Enhances their appreciation for farmers, the community and the land.

2)   Edible education helps students embrace responsibility by teaching them how to develop their own food.

-       Helps students learn about sharing

-       Enhances connection with themselves and their peers.

-       Helps them to believe in themselves

-       Connection to community is key

-       Helps us embrace our status as an American

-       Through edible education we develop the values of society.

Question 1) Walter’s says that food can be used to teach these values by helping kids learn that “farmers depend on the land; we depend on farmers; and our nation depends on all of us.”

Question 2) She makes this link by giving the example of the Central Alternative High School in Appleton, Wisconsin. Yes more evidence would help her argument because it was only one school.

Question 3) I’m not sure about the whole state, but in my county we had terrible food and they wouldn’t consider edible education.