Many feel rushed at Taylorsville High School during lunch. “I often go without eating at lunch due to the long lines and the crowded cafeteria” Taylorsville senior Charlotte Ogden.
To compare other school schedules like Hillcrest High School and Taylorsville Senior High School. Hillcrest lunches range from 11:06-11:36 and 12:28- 12:58 on a normal day and Taylorsville’s lunches range from 10:33-11:08 12:04-12:39. So, in theory, there is a way to fit in a third lunch in all high school schedules. A good way to also split into a third lunch is to separate the lunches similar to how teachers split theirs.
Many students at THS say they like to go somewhere outside the school because the lunchroom gets crowded.
A suggestion that Nicholas Crosland, an automotive teacher at THS, made was that if we were to have a third lunch, we could organize it so that upstairs is the first, downstairs is the second, and the relos and villa have the third.
Some of the teachers here disagree with having a third lunch like Mr. Shawn Mcniven, who thinks that a third lunch would cause more havoc. He said it would cause more havoc with lunch servers and custodians. As well as the administration has to ensure all the students are still in the right place and not where they’re not supposed to be, which may be hard.
Another high school that would have room for another lunch is Highland School. Their first lunch starts at 11:45 and ends at 12:15, and their second lunch starts at 1:15 to 1:45. If they were to add another lunch, they could put it before the first lunch.
However, having another lunch would also mean that high schools would have to move their schedules around which might mean less class time. Or we would have a longer class day because state law states that schools must have curtain hours and a certain amount of days every year
The benefits of having a third lunch would give students more time to eat and have more downtime which may help students focus better in class.
Some students get mentally stressed and are not able to focus because of the anxiety and stress, “Students should be able to focus on their mental health and clear their mind so they can focus on their education better than before,” said senior Giselle Castro-Mendoza.
In theory, every high school could have a third lunch because some lunch times have room to put a third lunch in. Another big reason students should have a third lunch is to bring down the crowds and help students focus on clearing their minds so they can focus better in class.
Over all this will help custodians have more time to clean and it’ll take stress off of the lunch servers to move fast. As well as it will give teachers more time to class prep and give them more time to also clear their minds and have their own time.