“No Food” signs are posted everywhere and anywhere a student can look. In past years, students have been able to bring foods and drinks of any sort into classes and the hallways. This privilege has been lost.

Before this school year, students were able to bring snacks or pick up food from the office whenever they wanted and eat it anywhere on campus. But because of the classroom disruptions and the spills that damaged school equipment and property, food is only to be eaten in the cafeteria. Students are only to have clear liquids, like bottled water, in the classroom.

This new rule is unreasonable – considering the seven hours students spend in school and the quick 30-minute forced in, snacks throughout the day and coffee in the morning are well-deserved and much-needed treats.

This rule only applies to students though. Often, administrators and teachers have coffee in the hallways. Teachers also have been seen eating lunch or snacks and drinking soda in their classrooms in front of the students that have to wait half of the day. This selective leniency is unfair and unjust to the 2,100 students who come to school and get through the day with a brief lunch stuffed unmercifully into their already tight schedules.

This “no food” rule can simply be solved by altering the conditions. For instance, let the teachers decide if they are going to allow their students to eat and drink in their class, making students and teachers responsible for their own cleanup. Secondly, allow food and drinks in the halls during passing periods and at the end of the day. There are simple alterations that can be made to this rule that can successfully make things fair and maintainable.