Last week’s lunch schedule is here to stay.
Lunch A is now called L1 in PowerSchool; Lunch B is L2; Lunch C is L3. Students can view their lunch on the “My Schedule” page of their PowerSchool account. For example, students whose schedules state 5L1 have 5A Lunch.
L1, L2 and L3 lunches will remain for the rest of the year, and there will be no L4 lunch as initially planned. Problems such as overlapping classes scheduled by PowerSchool made achieving a four-lunch schedule difficult. Principal Eric Juli announced the changes in an email to staff last Friday afternoon.
History teacher Roy Isaacs recognized the district’s original vision for a schedule with four lunches. “More lunches equals smaller groups, therefore less conflicts,” he said.
History teacher Joseph Konopinski said that previous problems may recur. “I presume this means the lunches will be congested,” he said. “It’s no different from last year.”
The original four-lunch schedule had a 17-minute window between each lunch period to prevent students from crowding the hallway while waiting to enter the cafeteria. Last year in a March 1 email to staff, Juli stated that four lunch periods would “significantly reduce the number of students in the cafeteria.”
Sophomore Aden Sowell said he thinks that the schedule is fine, but the process of making it was problematic. Said Sowell, “Shouldn’t they have already done this at the beginning of the year? The way they went about it was sloppy and incoherent. It’s all over the place.”
Liam MacGilvray contributed reporting.
