Open campus lunches allow students to leave school during their lunch period and buy food from restaurants or go home to eat. According a study performed by The Pew Charitable Trusts and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, nearly 1 in 3 high school campuses across the country allow students to leave campuses during lunch. Some countries have allowed open campus to be widely accepted. According to mlive.com, French students have a two-hour lunch break from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. This implements responsibility to the student on making choices that they will soon have to face in the world anyways. Open campus lunches are effective and ideal because they allow students to take responsibility, give students a wider variety of options, and boost morale of students. For starters, leaving the school campus and getting back on time requires a great deal of maturity. A student who is given the opportunity of open campus lunch would most likely be tempted to leave school and not come back. Giving students the responsibility to find their own way to get back to the school before their next
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The repetitive cuisine of the school cafeterias can quickly lack excitement after a long day of constant study and just not be appealing to students. This would cause the pupil to not even engage in eating lunch at all and starve themselves. The lack of food can cause juveniles to become irritable and not want to learn. A junior at Roosevelt High School participating in a student protest of the inadequate meals served at lunch said, “It’s not fair for us kids, us teenagers, to go through the day where we’re not satisfied. And if we’re not satisfied, we’re not learning anything and we’re not focused,” per huffingtonpost.com. Open campus lunch periods would ensure that students are eating by allowing them to eat whatever they
The repetitive cuisine of the school cafeterias can quickly lack excitement after a long day of constant study and just not be appealing to students. This would cause the pupil to not even engage in eating lunch at all and starve themselves. The lack of food can cause juveniles to become irritable and not want to learn. A junior at Roosevelt High School participating in a student protest of the inadequate meals served at lunch said, “It’s not fair for us kids, us teenagers, to go through the day where we’re not satisfied. And if we’re not satisfied, we’re not learning anything and we’re not focused,” per huffingtonpost.com. Open campus lunch periods would ensure that students are eating by allowing them to eat whatever they