Do New Lunch Tickets Live Up To “Going Green” Expectations?
Original Story by: Tekeisha Adams Written by: Tatiana Cerreta
September 15, 2009
Filed under Opinion/Editorial
*Disclaimer- New Lunch Tickets are being donated and are not costing the school any money.
As Brashier starts out the new school year in its new building, there have been many new changes to go along with it; for example a new set of lunch tickets. But, many students are worried that the new tickets are perhaps a waste of paper and money and think we need to rethink the new cards. Tekeisha Adams, a Junior, wrote the newspaper an opinion article on the subject and others had a lot to say as well.
Te’keisha Adams’ story:
What is up about these new lunch tickets? Aren’t we supposed to be saving the environment? What happened to the saying, “reduce, reuse, recycle?” Yes, you can say that Brashier is following this, let me explain. We are recycling cans and bottles, but we are reducing trees by printing lunch tickets for everyday of the year. What difference does it make on how the lunch tickets look? They were fine just the way they were. You could have left it with the tickets of different colors that were re-used each week. Now you have the glossy new lunch tickets with dates on them. Don’t you know that costs more money and more trees being cut down? You can even reuse these things until, what, next year maybe? But why go through that? You have to make more every single day. You probably make more than you need. Yeah, we may have a new school and all, but everything doesn’t have to become new with it. That’s ridiculous, I’m just saying to save money and trees. Go back to the old tickets.
“Yeah we don’t need everything to be fancy smanshy. Plus, I like the pretty trees outside and the little critters living in them. So, I say we stick with our old awesome cheaper lunch tickets.” – Kali LLams
“It is a waste of money, paper, and ink and it is a needless cost. We need to go back to the other tickets.” –Elise Roper
“I think the whole new lunch ticket is ridiculous and just a waste of time and paper.” – Andres
“I think the lunch cards are a big waste of paper and they shouldn’t waste so much because they want the tickets to look nice. I think the old tickets were more efficient.” –Erin Slater
“Honestly, I think that our new lunch tickets are a total waste of money. Yes, the students are reusing the old tickets but we can stop this. I think we should go back to the paper ones, but put Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday. This would stop students from reusing them and taking other students lunch.” –Bittany Douglas
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I think the lunch tickets are great. There is no way for people to hold on to them for another day or week now that we have a new one each day. When people save the lunch tickets for another day, they deprive someone who did sign up for lunch that day a ticket. That’s what is not right – not the tickets. Thanks to whoever donated them – they are great!
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tcerreta Reply:
September 17th, 2009 at 11:21 am
Thanks for your comment it’s cool like how you brought up the issue of the old ones and how lunch used to get taken by others. Thanks for commenting! Peace
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I think the lunch tickets are gay. and who cares if people save them???
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