Aliso Niguel High School has recently made a new rule that if a student gets a breakfast food after 11 a.m it counts as their free lunch and they will not be able to get food from the cafeteria during lunch.
This new rule is a controversial topic as to whether it is limiting the students right to get free breakfast and lunch at school. When Aliso Niguel High School students who get both breakfast and lunch at school were asked their opinion they replied with similar responses.
James Garcia (10) says, “Honestly I think this new rule is kind of annoying because I would always get breakfast after Wolverine Plus since the line would be too long after the first or second period, and now I can’t because I want both breakfast and pizza for lunch”.
Jana Gonswa (10) comments, “It is a bit random to suddenly enforce this rule because last year they didn’t have this and 11 a.m is a very random cut off time since people can get hungry after the fourth or fifth period. They can’t get lunch and just starve from the time they get breakfast to the end of the school day”.
If a student gets breakfast at 11 a.m., they are denied free cafeteria food almost two hours later at lunch at 12:50 p.m. This may not seem like a long duration of time, but once a student ends lunch and heads to their next class they will not have food until 3:15 p.m., totalling up to four hours without food if they cannot bring their own or buy a stack at the vending machines.
After Wolverine Plus the cafeteria ladies still hand out breakfast, but as they are handing the food to you, they say, “This counts as your lunch, do you know that?” They say this announcement every time a student gets breakfast after a tutorial, a subtle reminder and enforcement of this nuisance of a rule.
Students can deny the breakfast to save their free meal for lunch, but not everyone is aware of this rule since there was no school announcement about the new policy.
Students will resort to asking others to get them food at lunch when they miss the cut off and have to get breakfast after 11 a.m.
Alyia Jabroni (9) states, “A lot of my friends will ask me to get them lunch since I don’t buy lunch and they want food, but they already spent their free meal on breakfast.”
Students will find a way to get their food and this completely defeats the purpose of making the rule since students who get breakfast and lunch can ask those who don’t to get it for them.
The school should put up signs or papers near the cafeteria to let students know about the new rule, instead of the cafeteria staff having to remind students everyday. If students are aware of this rule then they will not have to resort to asking others to get food for them.
Students of Aliso are not happy with this confusing and unreasonable timing that dictates when they can get breakfast and lunch.
