For quite some time, PVHS’s lunch has been a closed campus: meaning students are not able to leave to go get lunch at a restaurant. While students have been able to cope with this rule, the inability to order food through a restaurant’s delivery system or UberEats seems to be unfair to some students.
Senior Noah Humphries has tried to order Jimmy Johns to school. He did it during his 5th period study hall, so he would not take away from his attention in classes. When he went to pick his food up from the office, he was told he could not order food and it was taken away from him. Even though he was able to pick up his food later that day, Humphries felt as though he should have been able to get his food that day.
Perhaps the most infuriating part of the situation to students is the fact that teachers and staff are able to order food. Even though they are adults, some students feel like this is an injustice to them. “Both [students and staff] should have the same options available to them,” Humphries said.
However, associate principal Adam Pagett stated that the school would be swamped with cars if students were allowed to order food. “Even if only a fourth of our students ordered delivery food, we would still have over 250 cars waiting outside our school,” Pagett said.
Humphries argues that, eventually, ordering food wouldn’t be overwhelmingly popular. “Maybe the first month or two would be crazy, but after it is considered a normal option for students I think it wouldn’t be too busy,” Humphries said. After all, there are some students who bring lunch and others who enjoy the school provided lunches.
Another part of the rule that is considered contradicting for some is that parents are able to deliver food to their kid. If food can be delivered by parents, some students question why it can’t be delivered by UberEats as well.
With the technology to order food from any nearby restaurant, students, like Humphries, believe they should be permitted to do so.
