New Lunch Rules Upset Students
Ellie Blake
Staff Writer
Thanks to an unpopular administrative mandate, Waverly High School students can no longer purchase water, drinks or sides until the entire room has purchased a hot lunch.
The new protocol came as a result of students stealing food from the lunch room instead of paying for it before sitting down to eat.
Theft has been a recurring event in WHS lately. Pinching a bag of chips and a Vitamin Water and sneaking to a lunch table seems to be too easy of a crime for students to carry out.
On Nov. 1, white sheets of paper saying everyone must wait to purchase extras were posted on the drink coolers. The chips and muffins were not put out, causing an uproar throughout the student body.
Once the new rule went into effect, complaints could be heard throughout the hallways and at the tables during students lunch times.
“I’m not very fond of the new rules,” sophomore Ben Warner said. “I don’t like waiting for extras because it makes for an extra trip to the front.”
Many students disagree with the new lunch rules and having to wait to get an extra item of their choice.
“I think it's stupid because sometimes I don't feel like getting their nasty lunches,” senior Chloe Brinson said about the new rules.
Some students don’t purchase the hot lunch that the school provides. They either bring their own lunch from home or they purchase a drink and something to eat from the extras provided.
Waiting for extras will cause issues and make many students impatient.
“I think some people just eat extras instead of the lunch, so they have to wait,” Warner said.
When students go to buy their lunch, usually most of them purchase chips to go along with their hot lunch. With the new rules, the chips aren’t put out anymore.
“I don’t like the new rule about extras. I understand the idea, but they should at least leave chips out,” sophomore Carson Hoover said.
Students have been pushing administration to change back to the old lunch, hoping to not have to wait.
“I need cooperation from the student body to not have so much commotion up at the line,” vice-principal Brian Daniell said. “If we could monitor that, we could think about going back.”
