Lunch+Periods

__**Longer Lunch Periods**__ **__Proposal:__** Take 1 minute off every class so there is more time to eat and get in the lunch line.

Here at the Project iCitizen Lunch Periods Wiki, we believe we should be provided with a greater sum of time in our Lunch Period. There are many reasons that we support this belief, some of them are as follow:


 * Over 70% of polled HMS 8th Grade students said that they do not have enough time to finish their lunch.
 * Because of this, there is very much perfectly fine food being thrown out each and every day in the cafeteria.
 * Students are being forced to eat so fast that it is unhealthy.
 * It takes 15 minutes for the brain to tell the stomach it is full. Most students don't even have their lunch for this long.
 * Students aren't chewing their food enough before swallowing as they are in a rush. This can lead toward health problems such as Acid Reflux Disease.

All of these things can be changed with adding just a few minutes to the lunch period. Allowing students to finish their meals, not throw out their food, and be healthier eaters is worth much more than the five extra minutes a day in our lunch period.

- A possible soultion is to let the kids take there books to their lockers at the last 5 minuts of flex (Study Hall), then they can get there lunch cards and or lunch bags. This could give you and extra 3 to 5 mins to get to the lunch line and then have more time to finish your food. It would be more or less time depending on how clear the hall way is. - 280 students at lunch and only 4 lunch lines, we could possibly have possibly more scaners for the lunch cards.