Should Eating In Class Be Allowed?

Crunch nibble chomp gulp… these are all sounds that you would hear in a class where students are allowed to eat in. Some teachers allow students to eat during class while others don’t allow it at all. Many students often think that they should be allowed to eat during class for many reasons.

There have been many debates over whether students should eat during class.

According to the article, Education Week, it states, “Eating is allowed as long as it’s not overly messy, noisy, or disruptive, and students clean up!” The article is telling us that eating is okay to do during class as long as it doesn’t get too out of hand and students manage to clean up after themselves. In addition, hunger can’t get controlled and people feel anxiety over it.

The website, Rampage, states, “...hunger is something that cannot be controlled, and therefore eating should be permitted anywhere and everywhere…”

This quote explains to us that some students may have issues with the noises that come from eating in class. Additionally, eating noises are not the only thing that can be a problem for eating in class.

The website, Patriot Press, says that eating in class and spilling crumbs could attract bugs and infest your classroom with bugs.

Math teacher Alvin Vo states his opinion on why he doesn’t let kids eat during class, “It can distract other students and make it harder for them to focus. After lunch, kids eating in class could make it unfair for other kids who didn’t have lunch or kids who didn’t get to go off campus for lunch. And also there could be ants because they usually don’t clean up after themselves.”

Vo explains how kids eating in class could be a bad thing because it can be a distraction, it could be unfair, or it could bring ants into the classroom.