By Haylie Kouri –
The View –
Students may have noticed two key changes from last year: The cafeteria no longer offers Chick-fil-A and Student Option Wednesday is gone.
Views about the changes are as varied as the more than 1,900 students who walk the halls.
Student Option Wednesday — which moved the school starting time to 30 minutes later on Wednesdays — was established last year so that teachers could work on assessments. Those days, students had no advisement. The change was controversial because many students missed the time they could meet with teachers for extra work or to make up assignments and tests.
Some students, though, liked being able to sleep in and having free time before school.
“I came to school and would play basketball with some friends,” Josh Wilson, a senior, said.
Principal James Calhoun, however, noted, “From the beginning, it was a one-year event.”
Teachers are glad to have advisements back on Wednesday.
“I would much rather have travel advisement,” Humanities teacher Emily Cave said. “It was wasting time because students could have spent more time with teachers.”
Many students were sad to lose the popular Chick-fil-A.
“I loved Chick-fil-A,” Wilson said “I went there all the time.”
Principal Jim Calhoun said the district decided to eliminate Chick-fil-A because the sandwiches were too expensive and were costing the school money.
Brent Craig, the district’s director of nutrition services, confirmed this and further clarified that each sandwich was losing 4 cents, and when students also took a sauce, it added 10 cents to the cost.
Since most students like their sandwiches with sauce, the school was losing more money than it could afford, Craig said.