NRHS Lunch Schedules

Written By: Talk of the Sound News

Lunch continues to be a very important topic for our readers.

Submitted by purplepride on Thu, 10/09/2008 – 15:46 about Second Graders at Trinity Have a Long Wait Until Lunch

About three years ago NRHS implemented a schedule in which students were given 25 minutes to eat lunch. With four lunch periods (the earliest at 11 and the latest at 2) and 3,500 students that’s about 800 students per lunch period waiting on long lines to get their food and find a table in the largely overcrowded cafeterias.

On nice days, students enjoyed eating lunch outside, however purchased food was not allowed to be brought out – only bagged lunches. Which seems completely arbitrary and illogical.

After graffitti was found outside the building where students eat lunch, there was a new rule implemented in which student were no longer allowed to eat outside at all, therefore stuffing the cafeterias even more.

In the High School, a lot of students use their lunch period to talk to teachers, make up quizzes, or print papers when they don’t have the time to do so after school, so more often than not students are forced to skip lunch altogether.

If they try to eat at a time that is not their scheduled lunch, they will be turned away from the cafeteria by a security guard even if they have a free period. This causes some students to borrow friend’s IDs in order to get into the cafeteria. My question is since when did getting into the cafeteria to eat get as difficult as getting into a bar underage?

I understand that the 4th grade lunch situation is a bit more extreme given their age, however school lunch schedules is obviously a district-wide problem not limited to Trinity Elementary School and it needs to be addressed.