Of the eight hours for five days of 36 weeks that high school students dedicate to education only 30 minutes are given to them as free/ lunch time. At Bellevue East high school those thirty minutes is confined to the inside of the school cafeteria for most students throughout the school year even though they have the ability to leave. And students who do not abide by the rules leave without permission anyway. We as the Tom Tom staff believe that students with the ability to access lunch outside of the school should be able to do so. Currently there is a screening process that students in their senior year go through to have the ability to leave the campus during their designated lunch period starting their second semester. The problem with that is that students receive the ability to leave campus before the second semester of their senior year and a lot of students prefer the foods that outside sources offer as opposed to the meals that the schools offer. …show more content…
At the beginning of the year students would receive a form to get signed by the parents of the student giving the student permission to leave the school during lunch time.The forms would be verified and the student would be added to the list of students with permission to leave. Each student would then receive a stamp on their student I.D, much like the activity card, verifying that they are in fact able to leave the school. The pass would be shown to the teacher checking at the beginning of each lunch period and then they would be able to leave. The accountability would be the attendance check of the student’s next class late. When a student shows that they can not handle going off for campus lunch and get back to the school when needed will receive lunch detention. After three violations of the rule the student will lose the privilege and will not be reconsidered for it again until the next school