Dear Manuel J. Rivera, Superintendent of Schools

I understand that the current lunch protocol does not allow high school students to leave school for lunch, but as the time changes so should the laws and restrictions. In order to let students distress in their only free time of 45 minutes for lunch, they should be able to leave school to be in a comfortable, stress free environment.

In order to ensure the well being of our students, we should be allowed to leave school for the 45 minutes out of the 7 hours we spend in school. Leaving could simply mean going home to eat our own food and relax, or go to a food restaurant to eat and study. The 45 minutes we have for a lunch period should be a free time for us to relax, unwind and maybe even get ahead on some homework, in a comfortable environment like Starbucks or Panera, or maybe even just our own home. We clear our minds and take a break so that by the time we have to be back at school, our minds are recharged and ready to take on the rest of the day. Many students do not like the lunches the school serves; in fact some even find it unsanitary and not very edible. Why should we deprive our students of having an edible meal of their choosing?

Should you be thinking about how to make our schools a better place, think of this; letting our students leave for 45 minutes would allow the school to be a happy environment, everyone would come back from their lunch break refreshed and ready to take on the rest of the day.

Best regards,

Savannah Kayal

Stress Relieving Lunch Time

            High school is the most stressful place there is for the normal teen, and if you ask adults today they would never want to be a high school student now with all the work, deadlines and restrictions we have today. Open lunch or off campus lunch is a very common thing that many high schools have, unfortunately mine does not. The open lunch idea is a stress reliever. What high-schooler doesn’t want to leave their school for the 45 minutes (or so) that they have free, to go get coffee, or food that is actually edible? The 45 minutes we have for a lunch period should be a free time for us to relax, unwind and maybe even get ahead on some homework, in a comfortable environment like Starbucks or Panera, or maybe even just our own home. We clear our minds and take a break so that by the time we have to be back at school, our minds are recharged and ready to take on the rest of the day.       

            19.3 percent of high school students have seriously considered killing themselves, and 14.5 percent of high school students made actual plans for committing suicide, from being so stressed from school and from depression in many cases. If we could be granted the permission to leave just for our lunch break to de-stress and relax, maybe even just to go home and eat lunch, this high school student suicide rate could decrease.

A free lunch break is the normal life of a businessman or woman who works on Wall Street. They leave their office for their 30-60 minute lunch break to free their mind of all the stressful work they have. So by the time they do go back to their job they return with a clear mind and in turn the employer get a refreshed employee who can work at 100% capability. They are allowed to leave and go do whatever their hearts desire; as long as by the time this lunch break is over they are back sitting at their desks as if they never left.

          In the real world if you’re allowed to leave for your lunch break then why can’t high-schoolers, preferably upperclassmen leave too? Highschools expect us to be able to make decisions about our future. How can we be able to predict or plan our future when we can’t even leave the school for 45 minutes just to distress?

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