How can we invite community partners to sell stuff in the building without hurting our own programs and fund-raising efforts?
2. How do we provide students with a space that is truly theirs while making sure everyone is safe and respectful?
3. Other ideas?
Yea we need our own space. Walk around at lunch and see al the kids sitting in the hallways, that's crap. Even Parkland has a proper lunch area where students are able to hang out.
ReplyDeleteFor the cafeitera, I strongly recomened enough spaces for every student to sit down in.
ReplyDeleteI think that we could somehow employ the foods classes to make a lunch for one day every week, and then ask local buinesses to supply us with lunches that we as students can purchase, AND afford.
I agree with TimW
ReplyDeleteI think a new school should include a cafeteria with enough room for everyone to eat lunch. The situation at Mount Baker with kid eating sitting down against their lockers etc. is ridiculous.
ReplyDeletethe cafeteria right now is WAY too small
ReplyDeletei personally hate sitting in cafeterias due to lots of people, but even i know that the size of it right now is ridiculus
Definitely a way bigger cafeteria. No one should be sitting on the dirty floor by their lockers.
ReplyDeleteWe so need a really an accutual cafeteria. I'm so tired of sitting on the floor, thats pretty much covered in dirt.
ReplyDeleteNot so fond of a giant cafeteria as a few different areas to sit so conversations can be fairly private.
ReplyDeleteWe need to have a bigger cafeteria/lunch room and I think it should be more open to the rest of the school rather than closed in in a room. There should also be more room to sit and a better concession
ReplyDeleteI agree with another comment saying that a few different areas around the school could have sitting areas for lunch time. not everyone wants to be in the same room as everyone else. It can get pretty loud pretty quick. That happens in our lunch room now. Scattered eating areas around the school along with a main bistro-style lunch area with adequate seating would be great.
ReplyDeleteWe need alot more places to sit! So we dont eat on the floor!
ReplyDeleteSitting in the halls eating lunch is depressing. we need a cafeteria
ReplyDeleteSitting in the halls on the floor is disgusting and there is definately not enough room in the lunch room we have now, or benches even. I think a much bigger lunch room would be a plus.
ReplyDeleteI think we really need a cafeteria with more than 4 tables and we need chairs for those tables. Having to eat off the floor is rather disgusting and very unhealthy. We need a place where we can go and not crowd the rest of the school.
ReplyDeleteAlso, J-bug1800's idea about having the foods students make food for every day of the week is really great. It would provide healthy, home-made meal for students and it would be much easier than going to Safeway and spending $7 on a sandwich and pop.
i think that there should be a salad bar and healthyer choses for lunch
ReplyDeleteI recently worked at mt Baker High school and could not believe the conditions that the students and staff must put up with, this is Canada!! I have seen better schools in some third world countries!!!
ReplyDeleteDuring lunch break the students were sitting on the floor in the halls! I could not believe it! Our country (government) just spent MILLIONS on the olympics and our Cranbrook high school students are eating lunch on the floor!! HELLO!
The class that I helped with was "Planning 10"
The students were doing a presentation on the different occupations and hazards in these work environments, affects on health and how to prevent these negative affects.
I discovered in the classroom that morning that a lot of buildings constructed pre 70s have asbestos in floor tiles or pipe insulation etc.
Made me wonder about Baker High....it was built in the 50s hmmmmm.
The school is falling apart...it really should be demolished...SHAME ON OUR GOVERNMENT!!!!!
Get a new high school Cranbrook ... and SOON!
Your students are worth it!! They are fantastic people!!
There was asbestos in Baker!!
ReplyDeleteHas anyone considered making the cafeteria connected to the Foods room so that food prep could be part of our Foods program and help in the future transition of student into the food services industry? It also gives students another opportunity get mor training, work experience and volunteer hours, with instructors nearby and peers as their patrons.
ReplyDeletei am not at mount baker yet...but next year i will ..and i know how it is at laurie for grade 9's we eat in the hall and by our lockers its stupid wile 7& 8's eat in a room...CAF IS A MUST !
ReplyDeleteWay back, when I was in high school, we had a proper cafeteria that was run by the foods and nutrition classes. The kids made the food and also worked in the cafeteria at lunch time. I believe they got paid minimum wage for working during their lunch break.
ReplyDeleteOther classes such as the entrepeneurship class or even various groups such as choir or sports teams could take turns working/running the facilities to fund raise for their groups. The possibility even exists for profit sharing with the school.
Why not keep the money as close to home as possible while giving kids a chance to learn and earn while providing a decent place for everyone to relax and eat their meals?
i think the cafitiria should be more of a buffet style as opposed to being just a little concession stand. we also need more room, even if in a seperate area of the school, like having two lunch room (one with a place to just sit and eat, the other with the buffet and till). the buffet doesn't have to be pricey (for the school), it could be cheap things that are bought in bulk like;
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-salad
-fries
-no name drinks
-etc.
-cody
At the apex of my concern is the sight of students sprawled out on the floor eating their lunches. How has this been allowed to take place for so long? Where is the Health Department when you need it? Elementary school students are given classrooms to eat in; when did senior students earn second class citizenship? The practice of eating on the floor in a public setting is purely and simply disgusting! What must first-time visitors to our school think when they arrive during the lunch break? I know how I felt the first time I entered the school at the lunch break. I don't enter the building at that time anymore because I practically gag at the sight. Comments by May 22 cover very good points. I, too, went to a school with a full cafeteria which was basically run by students. Foods students would be the logical choice, although if there were other students requiring vocational training, i.e. special needs students who were not taking a foods course, they could also work the cafeteria. As far as one of the concerns being of too much noise all in one area, my school didn't have that problem and it housed 2400 students from grades 7 to 12. I'm certain they didn't all occupy the cafeteria at once since students like to get out and about. Given adequate space, 900+ students, all of which would also probably not occupy a cafeteria at once, would probably not give major cause for concern. If memory serves me, my school's cafeteria was in the basement, allowing it tons of space. Regarding having more than one space for eating lunches, I would only favour that idea if the people eating the lunches would actually clean up after themselves (has anyone seen the appalling garbage problem at Mt Baker?). If students want a quiet place to go after they eat lunch there could still be benches in hallways or a student lounge area, or the Library. Why on Earth would a school entertain any ideas to have "community partners" selling their "stuff" in the school? By that I'm guessing the "stuff" is food, since the topic is cafeteria, after all. The thought brings to mind schools who converted their existing cafeterias to food courts with vendors selling all the unhealthy foods we, and the government, don't want our children eating. A new school plan should consider adequate cafeteria space a HIGH PRIORITY, without question. Get our future movers and shakers OFF THE FLOOR, PLEASE!
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