By Abraham Musselman

Staff Writer

The Rocket Press

SLA is not your typical school. We are tied to the Franklin Institute. We have ILPs. Everyone has a laptop. Even our bells are different. However, many students at other schools would agree that our biggest difference shows up in our favorite, or least favorite, part of the day: lunch.
    Some students at SLA seem to be taking good advantage of the one-hour lunch. Here’s what they have to say: “An hour-long lunch is awesome!” William Marsh. Digging deeper, Kabbour Rizq feels that the long lunch is “really good because it gives us time to make up homework and work for classes.” Others feel that lunch should be spent with friends: “Nothing. I usually sit and talk or play cards.” Kyara Broady.
    While a one-hour lunch can be a blessing or a curse, other schools don’t have close to one hour for lunch. Take Masterman for example, where students have a 45-minute lunch. Xavier Zambrana, an 8th Grader at Masterman uses his lunch in a way that isn’t exactly possible at SLA. “I usually eat, then play football.” In response to hearing about our school lunch and “weird schedule”, Xavier said, “In my school, lunch is 6th period every day. Eating lunch at one o’clock is really long. Your schedule sounds better because it changes but the lunches seem too long.” Given an hour for lunch, Xavier would “play recess longer and hang out with friends.”
    We can all agree that an hour-long lunch is unusual. Uses for such a lunch could really be pushed either way. Other schools have a great amount of activities to do at lunch, but less time than SLA in which to do them. SLA has an hour for lunch and a laptop. Whichever is better is a matter of opinion and interest.