Get your own Free Home PageTen years from now, what will Ben L. Smith be like? You and I will not be here. Well, at least we should all hope so. But how will lunch be? Will there be better food, more room in the cafeteria, or will there be a new policy that will allow all students with signed permission slips, to go off campus for lunch.
Currently, lunch at Smith is just like every other campus in Guilford County. At Smith only seniors are allowed to go off campus for lunch, their gold parking tags distinguishing them from the rest of the student body. Our cafeteria is pretty small and there are not enough chairs for everyone to be seated inside, leaving more than a handful of students to sit on the floors outside in the commons area. The lunch menu is pretty mundane, the cafeteria is not watering mouths here. Every day chicken sandwiches, French fries, hamburgers, cheeseburgers and salads are served.
Of the students I interviewed most of them believe that the off-campus policy will be done away with in ten years. But ones that believe that if our school does keep the off-campus policy, only the seniors will be able to go off, just as it is now. Yet those I interviewed, all believe that the size of the cafeteria will be augmented. They also believe that the food will be the same old cafeteria food. No imagination exhibited here at all.
If it were all up to me, the policy of off-campus lunch would be changed. Everyone will get to go off campus as long as their parents sign a permission slip saying they are allowed to leave school. This new policy would satisfy everyone. As you are walking outside the main building you will see about ten or fifteen benches able to seat everyone on a nice sunny day. But if it’s cold out, you could decide to sit inside in our spacious cafeteria. Replacing our traditional cafeteria ladies who have been serving us, will be a huge food court similar to the one in our mall. There will be four different fast food restaurants: a Chinese restaurant, Taco Bell, Domino’s Pizza, and Wendy’s. The food prices will be affordable and the food will be delicious. The free lunch program will also be determined by the students’ family income similar to now. Even though the new off-campus policy will allow kids to go off campus, most of the students will choose to stay on campus because of the larger variety of food tochoose from in the on-campus food court. The lines would also go faster so they wouldn’t be as long as they are now. Students will order food at the restaurant of their choice and press a button on the keypad and, voila, a ready-made meal in just two seconds. The new cafeteria will be filled with bigger tables and more comfortable chairs. Furthermore, every student will have a place to sit.
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