CTE New Teacher Institute Forum: A long, long, long lunch

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Thursday, April 19, 2007

A long, long, long lunch

Does any of you have a 50 minute lunch period? Our administration has announced that they are contemplating (code for we are going to do it) having one 50 minute period for lunch where all students eat at the same time. They took away the 10 minute break between 1st and 2nd because we were having too many fights. The reasoning was that the students had too much free time. If they cannot handle a 10 minute break how in the world can they handle 50 minutes with nothing to do? One of the reasons for the All Student Lunch Period is that they feel most students will utilize it to make up work and get some extra tutoring. Are you kidding me? Not this student population. The teachers will have "duty" during this time as well as be available to students and somewhere in there eat lunch. I just think it is a bad idea to try and fit the entire student body into a cafeteria that is normally full each of the 3 lunch periods we currently have. Correct me if I am wrong, but I think this is just trouble looking for a place to happen. It's going to be a long, long, long lunch.

1 comment:

Joyce D said...: What are they thinking? No, they aren't thinking! Obviously they aren't the ones who do lunch room duty. That whole idea can be shot full of holes. I hope you have the opportunity to speak up and show them where the holes are.; April 19, 2007 at 9:26:00 PM EDT