Will an Extended Lunch Period Help the Minds and Productivity of Palmer Students?

Have you ever sat in class and been distracted by students coming in late to class and disrupting the teacher’s lesson? What about being late to class and not completely knowing the lesson and the work you have to do? This seems to be Palmer High School’s biggest problem, especially after lunch. Palmer high school students are upset about having too short of a lunch period, having too little time to eat, and not enough time to make it back to class on time. What is the solution? This is the biggest question being asked. The solution to this problem of having too short of a lunch is simply to just take three minutes from each class period in the eight period scheduled day, and add it to the thirty minute lunch period. Making it about a fifty-five minute lunch period, instead of a thirty minute period. This way teachers are not rushed to finish any kind of lesson in a hurry because they only need to cut the period down by three minutes, and also might give student time to work on homework and classwork in class so that not as much assignments are being assigned, giving students more time for after school sports, practices, clubs, ex. Palmer student J’twane Mike states that, “Yes I do believe a longer lunch period would help the absent and tardy rate because some people go to further spots for lunch and need more time to walk or drive back to the school.” Then, when asked if the longer lunch period would help teachers in the long run, J’twane Mike also claims that, “It could definitely help teachers because it potentially gives them more time to prepare a plan for class if they don’t already have one set.” If this change is made, and Palmer High School students get an extended lunch period by twenty-five minutes, then there will be a decline in students being tardy to class, or even just absent as well. There will also be an uprise in submitted work and quality of work as well, because this gives students the opportunity to replenish their bodies and get the brain break they need to finish out the rest of their day at the best that they can be.