This year Cypress High School reconstructed their lunch line, increasing the number of barriers to improve organization and efficiency. In the past two years, Cypress High School has experienced various issues with its previous system, with students sometimes pushing and shoving one another aggressively. Principal Jennifer Brown, addressed this issue and made alternate adjustments to encourage a safe environment. 

What was bothering administrators was how groups of students would cut into lines, causing a clump to form, when the lunch lines are supposed to be a single file line. There had been multiple instances of fighting due to anger and frustration. Patrick Cheung, a senior said, “There were many occasions where I would witness fights between students almost breaking out because they were cutting one another in line.” 

Brown stated that last year she had requested the district for more dividers but it was denied. When the issue with the lunch lines was brought to her attention, she focused on distributing the students to different lines and increasing the barriers between them. 

Now that the new system has been implemented, there is noticeable improvement on how the lunch lines run. The lunch lines are now able to run much more smoothly, and there aren’t as many students cutting into the lunch lines, because the new barriers dont give students the opportunity to cut. “Now that people can actually line up for lunch, I don’t have to wait in line for an hour,” Lu Emara, a senior at Cypress High School said.

The main priority of the school is to ensure the safety of students. Blanca Legrue, a lunch distributor at Cypress High School, says, “Students, please behave in school because you are all becoming young adults and you must be aware of other student’s safety.”