The new lunch format at City High has been received with mixed emotions. Students like the idea of a much longer lunch, but also dislike the idea of a more jam-packed lunch with there only being two cycles for the new style. The school could revert back to the old format if people start leaving campus and coming back late.
One pro of the new format is the longer eating time. The new format would have just A and B lunch and each would last 41 minutes, which is much longer than the old format that had about 25 minutes. This would allow students more eating time and also possibly serve as advisory time because students would be able to get work done after eating.
“I think it’s a good idea that we get more time to eat since the lines can take a lot of time,” Nathan Voudhivong, ‘26, said.
On the other hand, one negative to this is that some students might be encouraged to leave campus. This shouldn’t be a problem, but it could become one if it results in tardiness. Also, the issue of how full the lunches would be could result in students waiting so long in the line that most of the extra time is wasted anyway, because C lunch students are now being split up into A and B lunch. This will also make the classes slightly shorter, which will better the feeling of the days feeling longer.
Another positive to this format is that it would help teachers as well. They will have more free time and time to eat, but also time to grade and help students 1 on 1 that need help in their class.
Brett Finger, Math teacher at City, said about this, “It feels like a win-win situation to me, everybody gets a longer lunch, and B lunch goes away, which nobody seemed to really care for anyway, I hope that it works logistically, so we can keep it around.” This will hopefully lead to better grades with students having more time to work alone and with teachers.
Overall, the new lunch format could benefit both students and teachers if it works out correctly, but there are some things that could get out of hand like the fullness of the lunches and possible tardiness.
