Daily Archives: October 8, 2015

School Life

School lunch review

The lunches at school have always been dreadful but now they are just plain unappetizing. The food that they are serving us students is hard to even understand what it is. The food is undercooked or it’s overcooked.

It seems like even the lunch staff is not okay with serving students this so call “food” as there are standards even for the lunch staff.

Most students complain to the school for serving this on a daily basis. There are many ways we can improve, but sadly nobody does anything to change the school food. According to students, this lunch food is just inedible, and since most students are starving at this time, they have to eat this so-called food. There is also a portion of students that don’t eat lunch due to the food.

There are many students who always try to ask for better food but nothing has ever been done to improve the food. Students such as Iveth Martinez have claimed she rather not eat school food because it is just not appetizing.

Eating something is very crucial for many students. After speaking  o some of the lunch staff, very briefly, since they are very busy, they said that the food is not the best but it is what they have to work with to feed such a big portion of kids.

I think what they are saying is true if they had better quality food to feed students, then I believe the food would be better. Some improvements that I would suggest, include: asking students what they would like to eat in school, as that way more students would want to eat school lunches. We also could improve the quality of the food, thus making the food have a better taste.

Overall, school food isn’t the most appealing but it is still OUR school food and we should improve it where possible.

Editorials/Student Voice

Editorial: Pep fest behavior

This letter was submitted to us from a HPSH student. They wanted to share their thoughts on the recent homecoming pepfest. If you’re interested in submitting an editorial to us on any topic, please send an email to: hpshplaidline@gmail.com

Dear Highland Park,

I am writing this to express how deeply I am ashamed of the caustic behavior of the majority of the school at the pep fest. Freshmen are students just like the rest of us and we should respect them as such. Almost all of us have freshman friends or siblings, so think about how it would feel to say to their face that they are not worth the school’s time.

Sophomores: You were freshmen only three months ago. The beginning of a new school year does not automatically give you greater respect. You must earn respect, including the freshmen’s, and you can not be respected through bullying someone because of their age. Next year, they will be the sophomores, so set a good example.

Juniors and seniors: It is even worse that the older kids in the school, and supposedly the more mature, would degrade another student based on his or her age. You are almost adults and treating kids two or three years younger than you as was done at the pep fest is petty, bullying, and hurtful to self-esteem. You are also setting an example and what you do is often regarded more highly by the freshmen than what the sophomores do.

Freshmen: I sincerely apologize for the caustic words said by most of your school. Though I myself am not a freshman, the chant hurt me, too. It hurt, because I can not believe that a school, my school, that celebrates it’s respectful and supportive environment could allow this. All of us were freshmen at some point, and just because we were told to “go home” by older students does not mean we have to make it a tradition. An eye for an eye does not create a stable world. Chanting such a thing tells our freshmen that their classmates do not respect them at all.

This letter was not supposed to condemn, but to make you think. I recognize that many students did not chant at the pep fest, and I greatly appreciate that. Please consider my words, and hopefully all Highland Park students will treat their peers, younger or older, with the respect they deserve.

Sincerely,

A Concerned Student at Highland Park