Hard News Article

Eastview has four individual lunch times, A, B, C, and D. Everyone gets a half hour to get their lunch, eat it, and get back to class. However, there is an overlap between the lunches. Each lunch starts ten minutes before the other ends. Because of this overlap, most students rush to eat fast enough so that they do not have the later lunch students hovering hungrily over their tables, waiting to sit.

Five minutes before the lunch ends, the students are allowed back into the halls. Yet, until then, they can't move anywhere. Sentries guard the entrances to the halls like Britain’s castle guards. So why can't students walk around the school for a scant ten minutes of the day?

            For some students, it’s more than just an annoyance.  “I remember freshman year, I always had to run to get to class.” Says Jr. student Krista Johnston, “5 minutes wasn’t enough time.”  Even alumni, three years out of Eastview, remember the 5-minute rule.  Meghan Wright, now in college, remembers, “Five minutes wasn’t nearly enough time.  I had to get out of the commons, run to my locker, and then run to class!  It was pretty stressful to deal with every day.”

            The panic of being late to class impacts a good handful of students at Eastview.  For them, it would be a huge relief for them to have the ten minutes they need to get everything prepared.  They ask why everyone has to wait until the last minute to get out.

            Teachers on the other hand, have a different view on the subject.  “I don’t want to have to take five minutes out of my lunch to supervise my students!”  Says Mrs. Donais, an English teacher at Eastview.  From this side, all the students who don’t have to run around the school will have absolutely nothing to do for a whole ten minutes, resulting in chaos.

            So, the dilemma is, either give some students piece of mind in getting to class, and have a majority of the students left with a dangerous amount of time in which they have nothing to do.  Or keep those kids under control and make their peers late to class.

            The rule is already in place, so unless something changes, some students will just have to deal with having to hurry to class.