Lunch Passes on the go

Posted on October 20, 2013 by Kevin Flores in News

Kevin Flores

Chronicle Reporter

Lunch passes for seniors will return soon, according to Principal Alejandra Sanchez.

Lunch passes were suspended due to liability issues that could have brought problems to the school if any students happened to be injured while taking lunch outside outside school grounds. “Last year, we decided to suspend them while we tried to find a safer way to do them,” Sanchez said.

Seniors who meet the requirements will be allowed to leave the school during lunch every Friday, with the exception of certain dates the school decides to exclude.

The requirements to be eligible for a lunch pass will be a 2.0 GPA or higher, one proficient score on either the math or English CSTs, no scores lower than a basic in any parts of the CSTs, a good attendance with a maximum of five absences that will be increased as the school year progresses, no D’s, F’s, or U’s on their most recent report card, and no suspension in the past school year.

“The students will have to complete a field trip form, we will write the dates, and then Ms. Payne and Ms. Ross will be there outside watching the students as they go out to buy their food,” Sanchez said.

Seniors are happy to learn that the lunch passes will be able to return this year as a privilege for all their hard work, but some think it should have been released sooner such as the beginning of the school year. “It sounds great that they are bringing back lunch passes for seniors, but I wish they brought it back sooner, like when the school year began,” SAS senior Jorge Callela said.

Sanchez said the delay in distributing the passes is compiling the list. “We need to come up with the names of the kids who are eligible.”

For any seniors wanting to know more information regarding lunch passes, they are encouraged to go and see Ms. Payne in the counselor’s office.