Practicality

When things make no sense, they can be quite annoying. Something off about Stuyvesant? We’re here to end all things unfair and confusing. Stuyvesant should be a school of just, comfortable policies. We have no time for frustration or miscommunication. Time for some practicality!

Policies that involve PRACTICALITY:

1. Going out during frees

⛅️Many students, especially during lunch, swipe their IDs to go outside during their free periods. It is well known that students are not allowed back into the school building until five minutes before the warning bell rings. This may be because the staff want to easily keep track of all the students by having them enter simultaneously, but especially due to COVID-19, it would be safer to have students spread out rather than keep them in one crowd. Also, students swipe their IDs when they re-enter anyway, so attendance would not be a problem. The issue that arises with not allowing students to re-enter in the middle of a period is that many students go outside to buy lunch since they don’t pack it, and as the weather becomes increasingly colder, students prefer to eat inside. However, students are only given two options: to stay inside in the warm building and not eat lunch or to go outside in the freezing cold and eat lunch. Neither of these options seem particularly appealing or healthy, and the clear solution would be to allow students back into the building whenever they wish.

2. Cafeteria Crowds

🍱As the weather gets colder, more and more students transfer from outside to eating in the cafeteria. The only problem is that this means the cafeteria becomes overwhelmingly crowded. Eating lunch is an extremely important part of a student’s day. We need the sustenance to continue using our brains for our work. Due to COVID-19, many students may decide to skip out on lunch for fear of taking their mask off in such a heavily populated and enclosed space. Seeing as student health is something we wish to protect and improve, this is simply not okay. We propose opening up more space for students to eat lunch, to perhaps relieve the cafeteria from the entire mass. Examples: open spaces such as the benches on the first floor, the 3rd floor junior atrium, or the half floor. In order to ensure that these spaces stay sanitary, we can apply the cafeteria code of conduct to them as well.