UBSCT Essay Practice

Prompt: The school is considering turning off the vending machines during class breaks. Write a letter to Dan on whether or not this is a good idea. List three reasons and give examples to support your opinion.


Monica's Letter:

Dear Dan,

It has come to my attention that you would like to turn off the vending machines during school breaks. I disagree to turn the vending machines off during school breaks because, some students do not eat breakfast, it will disrupt class, and we are growing kids. The vending machines being on during break has not raised any noticeable havoc, so it is also senseless to turn them off.

Summit students come from every where around Orem. Some students have to catch the bus around 6 o’clock in the morning. It is difficult to get breakfast started at that early in the morning and still have enough time to get enough sleep and ready. When it is that early in the morning and there are other people in your house. It is hard to go get a decent breakfast without waking a silent sleeping house.

The teachers on there prep period or there brake go to the vending machines, us students know that. As soon as class starts we will be sure that the vending machines will go on to accommodate the teachers who may be on prep. So the students in class will be disrupted, they will want to go into the hall so buy from the vending machines. Usually if you do not let a student go they will find a way, it will make more trouble in the hallways and students will have lower scores to match there attitudes.

We are growing kids, we are not in kindergarten we do not get a snack, nor a nap anymore. So, us students as maturing as we are, we need to have food or we will be very cranky most of the day. It is far much easier to work with a full stomach then to have to bare with the craving hunger pains. Lunch is not enough for students or any kids our age, the vending machines get us by. We get through our day with caffeine.

Some teachers would say it is a distraction to have food in class and it is making the school messier, I do not agree with that. Some students make that personal choice to do so. You can only look out for yourself, but if you see trash pick it up and through it away. We can all work together to keep the school clean. If we keep the vending machines on during school breaks we will have less disruption and more satisfied students and teachers.