‘I enjoy having one lunch’

Students and administrators support Martin’s one lunch plan for next year

Celest Harbrink & Corrina Reyes

Every day all the students at Martin High School gather at the same time for lunch for an hour.

To many students and faculty, it is considered a luxury.

While it’s a benefit for some students, others take advantage.

Although fights have been decreasing during lunch throughout the year, the beginning of the year’s fights caused administrators to consider a multiple lunch solution.

“Most of the fights are typically caused by too many students walking in the hallway,” Officer Jamien Jenkins said.

Martin faculty has tried many ways to stop too many people from walking in the hallways because of the disruption.

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“I think that we should have more supervision over the halls during lunch from teachers instead of just calling security,” Jenkins said.

“I think that we should do the same thing as last year when we made freshman and sophomores wait a few minutes after the juniors and seniors so upperclassmen are able to hurry and go off campus if they would like or get food from the cafeteria to stop the lunch line from being really long,” assistant principal Luann Kennedy said.

While letting upperclassmen go to lunch before underclass did help more students, it did cut into teachers’ lunch times.

“It’s a law that teachers at least get a 30 minute lunch break without students while they are working, but with the lunch being split, it would cut into their lunch time so the school doesn’t know what we would do with that,” Kennedy said. “We’re still trying to come up with ideas that would help us all.”

Students think it’s very congested in the hallways due to no space.

“We could use more benches and open more lunch stations,” sophomore Christina Tran said.

Others have had the idea to open up the courtyard again so students can get a scenery change and we would have more space in the hallways.

“Opening up the courtyard might help so we can stay with one lunch and we would definitely consider doing that next school year,” Kennedy said.

Keeping lunch as one would help keep teachers that have lunch duty right now have their needed 30 minutes of lunch.

Although some teachers still think that we should split the lunch into three different lunches, many people agree that we should keep lunch as one.

“I enjoy having one lunch most of the time,” Jenkins said.

Having multiple lunches would affect everyone from teachers not getting lunch time, students who go off campus or go to teachers during lunch, and security guards having to watch over all of the split up lunches.

“To help with this, I think we should just have more teachers help supervise the hallways after 30 minutes if they aren’t doing anything,” Jenkins said.