Students should be allowed to eat lunches during classes.

No problem.Con states that as i mentioned school almost equaling to 8 hours is not the same as 7.5. Like i said i mentioned ALMOST. It was always less than 8. I never said it was FULLY 8 hours. ' She says that this early start and long day take away from the older students' ability to sleep and eat, but this is incredibly off the mark as high-school classes typically start 1.5 hours later than elementary school classes'Con has failed back up the average sleep time for teens. But what he doesnt realize is, according to NFS Studies, the average teen neds 8 - 9 hours of sleep on school nights. But only 15% of students admitted they had this much sleep on weekdays. Doesnt matter if in most schools, highschool classes start 1.5 hours later.Con has ALSO failed to realize that in his source, it states -'School days start early in the morning. According to the National Household Education Survey (NCES 2001), roughly half of middle schools start at or before 8:00 a.m., and fewer than 25 percent start at 8:30 a.m. or later. High schools start even earlier. Wolfson and Carskadon (2005), surveying a random sample of public high schools, found that more than half of the schools reported start times earlier than 8:00 a.m. In 2005, two thirds of high schools in Kansas started at 8:00 a.m. or earlier, and more than 99 percent started at 8:30 a.m. or earlier. In the school year 2010–2011, roughly 10 percent of high schools in New York City started at 7:30 a.m. or earlier and more than 80 percent started at 8:30 a.m. or earlier.'And as he states, ' but this is incredibly off the mark as high-school classes typically start 1.5 hours later than elementary school classes;'Notice how later is boldy underlined ;)'Finally, the argument pro is putting forth here seems to suggest that we need to push back the start time for school. That's fine and all, but that has nothing to do with letting kids eat during class. This argument is moot.'I do realize that this debate is about allowing kids to eat during class. But have you realized that i am sourcing that kids dont have enough time to eat breakfast, and you actually got really into the schedule's not me ;x. And so i later started to disprove your false information and sources.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Lunch Time.'Pro also asks the question of if those schools have low obesity rates. I don't see the relevance of this question and Pro moves on from this question without developing whatever point this was supposed to make further, but since you've brought it up -- roughly 33% of youths ages 2-19 are considered overweight [3]. This clearly proves that "not eating enough" is not a problem by any means for our students. In fact, just the opposite is true. Students are eating too much.'As youv'e said, 33% of youths ages 2-19 are obese, right? And wanna know something? 20 - 30 percent of children skip breakfast, which goes back to obese kids. Obese children cannot stop eating food. Especially going through, like i said 4 hours of eating nothing.'Pro then goes on to assert that there is a 4-4.5 hour stretch between the beginning of school and lunch time, not 2.5-3.5 as I've shown. Note that she has reduced her original argument of 5 hours down to 4/4.5. Pro can assert her position all she wants. I've sourced my claim and she hasn't. That's all there is to it.'Again i was talking about average. It is much different from my nephew's school. If you need more information on it and think im not telling the truth go ahead and ask. Patricia A. DiChiaro School. Located in ny :)'Pro criticizes my first source by pointing out that its data is 8-12 years old. My response to that is that a decade old source is better than the no-source offered by pro in that same round. Besides, I've posted an updated source in this round.'Having very little source does not compare to 8 years of left source. Atleast i had the correct and con had very false information.My arguement has not been defeated on all levels. I have pointed out on your mistakes and have corrected them. Very interesting debate. I look forward on debating more with ConVote Pro.Sources -http://health.usnews.com...http://dichiaro.ypschools.org...http://pewresearch.org...http://www.healthychildren.org...