During lunchtime, students generally make their way through the crowded cafeteria to sit with their friends, and enjoy their lunch while being supervised; however, many schools are now authorizing students to have an open campus lunchtime. An open campus allows students to leave school campus unsupervised to have lunch or hang out at a local restaurant or business. Having an open campus is beneficial because it allows students to gain independence, responsibility, trust, the health of students, socialize with friends, and help increase business at local restaurants. Therefore, I believe Arapahoe should continue to have an open campus for the benefit of our students.
Having an open campus allows students to leave the school grounds to have lunch outside and be able to socialize with their peers. In the article 9 Primary Pros and Cons of Open Campus Lunch, the author expresses some of the benefits of having an open campus, “Open campus lunch is observed to have taught students to be able to interact with the world and be more responsible in certain ways that are closer to how adults do it. Well, they have to communicate with other people when they go to the bank and then to the dining establishment, which is really helpful to their learning even if it is just quick” (ConnectUs). An open campus permits several learning opportunities for students. Allowing students to venture off campus to test their responsibility and trustworthiness. Also, it helps develop decision-making
Attending a community college was not always my number one choice for my college life after high school. I had always dreamed of attending a university once I graduated high school. Delta State was always high on my list of schools to attend, especially now that I have matured and experienced the first two years of my college journey. Attending community college was the fiscally responsible move for me after high school graduation. The two years I have spent at Itawamba Community College has given me the experience to take the next step towards my career goals; attending and graduating from a university.
As I walked into the cafeteria, I caught a whiff of the food being prepared in the cafeteria and thought to myself, “Why can’t we go off-campus to get lunch?” While SLA, the lunch program at Catholic High, provides the school lunches, there could be an alternative solution to this. Unfortunately, students are detained at school during lunch hours and are not able to leave campus during lunch forcing them to be served by SLA or bring their own lunch. If Catholic High School were to introduce an open-campus lunch, students and faculty would benefit greatly. While SLA does provide the lunch at CHS, they do not live up to their standard of “high quality, nutritious, and cost efficient”.
In addition to this, students can take care of their own dietary needs. Open campus lunch allows students to take a break from their chaotic or busy school days. Students with the option of open campus lunch can learn life lessons. If you want your students or children to be happier during school hours. Then, open campus lunches can make this happen.
Not everyone wants to stay on campus and they may not be in walking distance of the campus. When they drive to class they want there to be a
Mainly the quality of the food, every student pays a substantial amount of money to eat on campus. It’s not fair to students having to throw away food and spend their money at restaurants, just so they don’t starve. The hours of the dining hall are definitely the easiest thing to fix, closing at 6:30 p.m. on a Friday afternoon is obviously ridiculous. The hours should at least end around 8:00 p.m. Also, building a restaurant on campus would make the school much more appealing to recruits.
3-5 The children were at lunch and they have been given more opportunities to develop their independence skills. Lunch time was a social event and the children and staff were chatting and enjoying their food. The learning environment was tidy and the areas were set up for the children to return to after lunch and planning was evident and relevant to the children’s needs and stages of development.
Having access to a cafeteria would limit the amount of students that leave campus for lunch. Students are known to leave
Lastly, students might "fight" back to get their favorite lunches back. When I say "fighting" I do not mean fisticuffs, I simply mean protesting, writing a
A lot of teenagers complain about how tired they are in the morning. It’s so hard getting out of bed in the morning, especially when you go to sleep late at night. In my opinion, I think that school should start later in the day. We learn way better when we are fully awake. We have the energy to stay awake during school.
Open campus at lunch time is a huge advantage for high school students, and is a great punishment as well. The student's responsibility to come back to school on time will have consequences if students don't follow it. This will help them realize that the word is run by rules and if people don't follow them, there will always have consequences. Students will be gaining responsibility for collage and the real world after that. To succeed in life people need independence, maturity, and responsibility.
Studies show that overweight students tend to have more problems with learning and paying attention (Miura). Many parents also fear that children would have the chance to skip school of get into drugs and alcohol while they are loose for their lunch break. People of the communities have also expressed their fears of increased traffic and increased risk of traffic collisions (?9 Primary Pros and Cons of Open Campus Lunch?). Not only can open lunches cause health problems, but they can lead to other dangers such as a car crash or
These safe zones were great because it would keep the bad people out. Even though it had an invisible barrier that I could not see, the safe zone would somehow always know that I needed to be protected. Another great thing about college was that if something happened in the world and it made me sad, the college faculty would provide us with counseling and therapy dogs so that we would not have to deal with the sorrow, and if things got real bad our professors would cancel midterms and finals because life was just so unfair that we would be in the wrong state of mind and our grades might suffer through no fault of our own. Also professors are so nice and understanding, they realize the importance of a students social life and the necessity to make changes, to due dates on assignments. Because, Millennials are just to busy developing their social skills by hanging out with our friends instead of hitting the books.
All of which are lacked during a school day with a 30 minute lunch block. Some people don’t want students to have longer lunch periods because it will result in them being in school longer. People think this will add more stress. Students won’t get out early, but will still be
At a private college the campus is much more smaller than a state college. Everyone at the college is known for who they are. They are known by their name, not just a number. Most students are in many extra things; therefore, if you do not know someone, chances are you will be attending something with them. Having a small campus can be very beneficial to learning.
In this case, students experience the atmosphere of the work and familiar with the business environment, so that they understand the requirements of the employee, and it is beneficial to find own ability and the gap between the enterprise and the school. Students have a better understanding of the future work environment, in order to determine their learning goals and