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New lunch period gives students more time
Now with a forty five minute lunch period, students have a much longer lunch period. As apposed to last year the entire student body now has the same lunch period.
Dean of students Jeff Panek supervises the lunch period to make sure freshmen and sophomores don’t go off campus and to make sure fights are broken up.
“I have supervision duties,” Panek said.
Panek likes the change because it gives the upperclassmen a chance to go off campus and everyone else the chance to eat and talk. Panek also said that when students don’t get a chance to go outside and let out their frustration during the cold seasons they end up in trouble.
Principal Doug Wheeler said it was more difficult to supervise, and now it’s long enough that they are able to serve everyone with ten to fifteen minutes left so that students can eat their lunches.
“The reason we made this is because it helps students,” Wheeler said.
Wheeler said it was more difficult to supervise, and now it’s long enough that they are able to serve everyone with ten to fifteen minutes left so that students can eat their lunches.
“I wouldn’t change it,” Wheeler said
Wheeler said he is impressed with the lunch period and that there is no excuse for students to be late to third block because of how much time they get, and it makes teachers available during lunch so if students need help they can go to a teacher during lunch and get help.
Wheeler says that the tardy rate for third block has gone down but is still a problem but it’s mostly the same kids that are late. At lunch Wheeler says he goes out with officer Chiodo and they look for underclassmen and if they find any they will stop them and give them a detention.
Wheeler says that this year they have caught 60 or 70 people, and two years ago they couldn’t catch any because they didn’t have as long to drive and look for kids.
Senior Maggie Quernemoen says that she likes the 45 minute lunch period because it gives her time to go out and eat. Quernemoen says she goes to a friend’s house or Jimmie Johns, Subway, Quiznos or McDonalds.
“I normally go out to eat,” Quernemoen said.
“I like it a lot better because we have way more time to eat,” Quernemoen said.
Quernemoen says that she is usually not late but when she is she gets a pass to get to class.
“A lot of students like it, and others say it’s too short,” Quernemoen said.