Lunch in Highschools

Argument Assignment

In highschool lunch is seen as being a time of socializing with piers, eating, and

completing work. Lunches are usually scheduled in periods to maintain an order for the students

and staff during lunch. Patuxent highschool has created a program called "one lunch". Which

provides an hour of lunch for every student and staff. This has many disadvantages for the

students and staff in various ways . I disagree with the one lunch program because it has many

faults that I feel that the school should take in concern. These faults are overwhelming of staff,

safety percautions, and unorganized manner of the school environment.

Nancy Highsmith could not fully attribute one thing to the moods of teachers but said the

Atmosphere around the school was much less chaotic than before, causing fewer headaches. The

one lunch program will unquestionably be overwhelming on staff because of the stress it will

cause. Having nearly 1,000 students out for an hour of lunch can cause a calamity. Having an

orderly lunch will be hard to maintain because of the great number of students. According to

Highsmith, the first half hour of the lunch period produces the longest lines. She said while there

are long lines, everyone is processed in a timely manner. The second half hour has shorter lines

and many students choose this time to purchase lunch. I dis agree with that comment, the lunch

food staff will definitely be overwhelmed by having to feed a large number of students. Lunch

lines will be extremely long causing students to refuse to eat.

Another factor I feel that this program fails to view is safety percautions in the school.

Having the entire student body roaming around schooldoes not ensure the students safety.

Students could be anywhere on school grounds or even off school grounds without the

knowledge of the staff. Jordan Sizemore, likes One Lunch much better than having three

individual lunch periods like years prior. ''Everyone has lunch at the same time so no matter

what, you get to be with friends." Just as well as