Keeping Sophomores On Campus Is A Waste Of Time

A new school year is around the corner and a new rule is in effect for L.I.S.D.  Sophomores are no longer allowed to leave campus for lunch.  Read more after the break.

Sophomores will join Freshmen in 'lunching in' on Lubbock campuses this year.  This measure is supposedly being done to eliminate ditching and increase safety...two reasons that make no sense.  Now keep in mind that L.I.S.D. wants a COMPLETELY closed camps but didn't think it had the cafeteria resources in place to take care of everyone.

Okay Lubbock, exactly WHEN are you going to let your kids grow up?  16? 17? What about 18?  A lot of high school seniors hit 18 when they're in school.  Are you seriously going to tell someone who is 18 years old they HAVE to eat in a school cafeteria?  An 18 year old can legally go across seas and kill or be killed for his country but you are going to deny that person some off campus food?

And let me ask you this, what's going to happen the first time one of these cafeterias fails a health inspection?  How are you going to keep kids on campus when the health inspector has problems with the kitchen feeding them?

Most of all, teens are teens.  You aren't going to tell them what to do.  You're just going to find more ways to lay more and more rules on them until they just plain break.

I went to two open campuses (one in California, one in small town Texas).  I ate in when there was something I liked in the cafeteria and I ditched school no matter what time of day it was and no matter how many counselors were around.  All you can do as a parent is try to teach your kids to do the right thing, you can't just fence them in and hope for the best.