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Persuasive Essay On Lunch In School

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The intercom beeps loudly, marking commencement of a passing period, but for students who have lunch this marks the beginning of a race to see who can get to the lunchroom the fastest in hope of being excluded from the long waiting time in the lunch line. In the 2017-2018 school year, there has been an increase in students at Jones College Prep due to more and more incoming freshman and transfers. Because of this increase, the lunch lines have increased in length and have even, at times during C-lunch in the north building, reached the path leading towards the link in the lunchroom. The lunch lines during lunch at Jones College Prep are extremely long damaging students in a physical and emotional way and they need to be fixed immediately. Lunch lines at Jones take away time for students’ personal activities. From personal experience, I can say that the lunch lines at Jones take an extreme amount of time. I can remember a time in which I got to the lunch line on an A-day at 11:15 and got my lunch until 11:45. I believe that lasting 30 minutes in a lunch line is a ridiculous amount of time when all we are given is 45 minutes worth of lunch time. Not only was it very time wasting but it was also very tiring. I want my lunch period to be a period in which I can have my personal time to enjoy being with friends and being able to not have to think about how stressful the first half of the day was. It is a wonderful time that I can have to myself. Unfortunately, being in a lunch line is very stressful and does not help lower my stress levels. Edwin Guallpa, a junior at Jones College Prep, says he brings his own lunch but enjoys sitting with his friends at lunch because it is a time to relax (Guallpa). Edwin finds it hard to have an enjoyable time with his friends because his friends take up to 20 minutes in the lunch lines waiting to get a lunch. In addition to being in line for a long time, in a school where technology is vital, students who do not have a printer or cannot turn their papers online at home are forced to go to the library during their lunch period to do what they have to do. Students at Jones utilize lunch time to study for upcoming test during 3rd or 4th period, depending on their lunch schedule.

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