St. Labre: Changing School Days

If an hour and half of school were added every day, students would miss after school activities. Students will miss the fun extracurricular activities. and students won’t get the exercise they need.

Wandering kids. Bumper to bumper traffic. Drug dealing. Is this the picture drawn when local students have fifty minutes of freedom during lunch to do whatever they please? Students should not be allowed to leave their school campus during lunch. An open campus would lead to truancy, disturb local businesses and neighborhoods, and cause crime.

Here at Hebron we have more than 2000 students on the main campus and our campus is far too small to accommodate that many students at once for lunch. We have very few lunch lines and all the lines are always packed full of people. And a solution to this would be to simply allow students to go off campus for lunch, with restrictions however of course. I believe that only Juniors and Seniors with a car should be allowed to go off campus for lunch. As most sophomores are fairly new drivers and including them would be too much traffic to handle in the parking lots. With the the addition of off campus lunch you would solve a multitude of problems at once and make things easier for you and the school staff.

School lunches have been getting shorter since 2009 in many places in the US. Students academics have been decreasing also since the school lunch times have been getting shorter. School lunches should be at least 1 hour long to give students enough time to eat an healthy meal and to get enough time to burn off energy.

Imagine a school year that gave the students one week off after every quarter and every Friday off. Does this sound exciting and rich with possibilities? Then ask the superintendent of the school district to consider year round school with only four days per week.First, students would not forget what they learned over the long summer. Next, parents would not have to get day care except on Fridays instead of the whole summer. Finally, teachers and students would have better relationships as they spend more time together instead of being rushed. Let’s take a look at some proof.

HELP! I'm dying!... because school lunches are cringing! Students should be allowed to leave class during lunch hours, and be trusted to leave and return back in time for their next class. If high schools gave students this right it would teach them how to manage their time wisely and it would help them become responsible. Students who leave campus during lunch are most likely end up going to a local business to get their lunch which is both good for the students and the local businesses. Students with special food allergies could leave campus during lunch and go to their homes and get food they could actually eat and not be worried that their food could have been cross contaminated to something they're allergic to. Students who leave campus during lunch would come back energized and ready for their next classes.

When I say time, I mean students getting to school on time, classes starting on time and transition time between classes. For some classes there is about a 10 minute gap between when class actually starts and when class is supposed to start according to the schedule. This leaves a lot of “free time” in between certain classes or inside of a classroom without nothing going on because the teacher has not started instructional time. As a student I love it, but as a principle I would feel as though the school is losing productivity with a teacher just sitting in another room or not even being there at all while the students loiter or just aimlessly wonder through the hallways or sit in front of the door. Another thing I find to be interesting is how some students leave during lunch to make sure they get to class on time while the teacher is still down the hill in the main building, I don’t take that class but what do the students do while they are up there and their teacher is down here? Do they go into the class room and just sit up there by themselves? Or do they do the same thing some of the students in the RVEC building do and just sit outside door. As a student I don’t know what goes on like that, but as a principle I would think that is another way lunch time transitions can be better managed so that the students and teachers are where they need to be when class needs to

Many public school students on average only get about 20 minutes or less to eat there lunch. Because of that about 1/4 of students lunches will not get eaten and it will get thrown away. School lunches should be longer for many reasons, but the main reasons that school lunches should be longer is because students would be able to have healthier meals, students who have a longer lunch do better in school and because students would have more time to  socialize with each other. Longer lunches in school would have many benefits for students.

If we had a six to twelve minute longer lunch at P.D.C.M.S., students would be outside more. Since lunch is one of the two sections of the regular school day that students are outside, having a one to two minute longer lunch would make the people whose parents or guardians say they don't get outside enough be outside when they might not get any exercise at home and just play video games.

The current situation of changing the lunch schedule has resulted in many student being separated from their friends, when this is their only time to see and socialize with them. Some students have even had to go as far as changing their schedules to make their assigned lunch fit in with their classes. The previous lunch schedule had the lunches organized by grade level.

Year-Round School Year-round school is having school all year round instead of having a summer break. If we had year-round school, people wouldn’t lose what they learned over summer break. The teachers wouldn’t have to re-teach the things they did before. Then the students could graduate faster if we didn’t have summer vacation (Morin). Some bad parts about year-round school is some parents are not going to leave their child home alone if they go on vacation during the summer, so the child could miss school.

It would benefit students because first of all, there will be shorter lunch lines so students will get their food faster. There will also be more lunch options

Schools should change how they serve lunches. I have a couple of reasons for this. The first thing that the school should do is change how we serve food by placing everything out like a salad bar. The second reason why I think they should change is the lunch ladies wouldn't have to worry about students complaining about the food as much.

Is your school lunchroom a total drag? Would you like to see changes made to make lunch time more exciting and palatable? If the answer is yes, then keep reading and I will explain some changes I would like to make.

school days were too long and so the next year they decided to shorten the school day and extend