Assignment 1: Assignment: Focus on Commentary:

Reply to this with commentary that connects the evidence to the claim:

Claim: Another function of education is to promote the welfare of all children in the US.

Evidence: For example, public schools are provided with federal money to give impoverished children free meals.

Commentary: (complete this sentence) By ensuring students are fed...

Fill it out and turn it in: that’s the message thousands of school districts send parents each year when they offer applications for the federal government’s National School Lunch Program (NSLP). And each year, millions of parents comply. But new data suggest that the process for verifying eligibility for the program is fundamentally broken and that taxpayers may be picking up the tab for participation by ineligible families. The NSLP, which is administered by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) at an annual cost of $8 billion, serves 31 million American children each day. The program’s goal is to help low-income students succeed in public and private school classrooms by ensuring they have adequate nutrition, a mission that is compromised if substantial funds are being spent on ineligible families or the program fails to reach the neediest students.

Explanation:

your eyes are the first things that you open