Lunch Times

Taylor Pederson

Lunch Times

What could make the food rules at school be followed more accurately? What could make students and staff happier and not hungry all day? Having a longer lunch would be the action to take. If there was a longer lunch then students wouldn’t be late to their classes, students and staff wouldn’t be starving all day, and students would have a chance to eat healthier. When examining the behaviors of the students without having enough time to eat, it’s clear that a longer lunch would increase their desire to learn and follow the rules.

If lunch was longer then students would be on time to their third period class. Lunch is only fifty minutes long. That doesn’t give students a lot of time to eat lunch. First they have to find their cars and then wait to get out of the parking lot. Then they have to wait at stop lights and go through traffic to get to the desired place where they want to eat. Then they have to wait in line, wait for their food, or make it. They basically have to inhale their food and then hurry back into their cars to get back to school. It takes even more time to drive back to school, find a parking space, get to their lockers, and then to class. This means that students have to eat their food very fast in order to get to class on time. Lunch should be made longer so that students have a reasonable amount of time to eat, drive, and get to class. Some students have to make up tests or have classes during lunch, which means they get very little if not any time to eat lunch. Having a longer lunch would insure that students and teachers doing work during lunch would have a least a practical amount of time to fill their stomachs.

With lunch being longer, students and teachers wouldn’t be hungry all day. A lot of the teachers work, run errands, or help other students during their lunch hour. This means they’re probably not eating lunch because they don’t have enough time. If they don’t eat lunch then they’re hungry for the rest of the two classes they have to teach. This could interfere with their teaching because their blood sugar drops, their energy level drops, and their attentiveness decreases. Teachers probably have even less time than students to go out to eat because they have to be back before class starts so that they’re ready for the students. Students who miss lunch because of school work, traffic, and other things would also have trouble in the classroom. Their ability to concentrate would diminish slightly without the proper about of energy, or food. Without a longer lunch, most teachers wouldn’t be able to fully educate students on the knowledge that they had planned on them learning for that day. This would make students be behind in their grade, give them low test scores, and lower letter grades.