Charger Opinion

Lunch crunch!

Tiffany Jolly, Charger Staff

In first lunch, 661 students, in second, 680, in third, 705. Does it seem like to many students in one lunch?Every year the students in the freshmen class increases. The consequence: overcrowded lunches. If I do not run immediately to lunch, I am stuck waiting in line for twenty minutes, leaving me only ten minutes to eat. As a result, generally I go back to third block hungry and cannot concentrate fully on my work. I have heard similar complaints from many other people.

How can we fix this? We could rearrange which classes go to each lunch, and try to make it more evenly distributed. We could add another lunch, taking ten minutes off each class would give enough time for one more lunch. Mr Scott Maddox, assistant principal says, “There have been things discussed, the only option would be to increase the number of lunches.The problem is that would cut back on class time and put everyone back in the cafeteria. We believe that would cut back on social time, and social time is a very important thing to highschool students.“ We could go back to scanning IDs instead of punching our social security numbers in. It does not really matter how this problem is fixed, but it is a problem that should definitely be considered by school officials.