Why Is Off Campus Lunch Wrong

When students are allowed off-campus for lunch, it can promote both positive, and sometimes rather negative behavior. There are some schools that would like to have this privilege revoked. However; this may not necessarily be the best solution to some bouts of bad behavior showing off-campus. In actuality, this would more than likely end up promoting even worse behavior, because the students would then feel the need to rebel against the system. Also, anger would result within both the negatively behaving students, and likely the students that were behaving well in the first place. There are several reasons why off-campus lunch privileges should not be revoked, including negative responses towards a punishment policy, a more crowded environment, and a more localized negative response (rebellion). First of all, yes, there are students who take advantage of off-campus privileges, but in usual cases, the majority of students respect the privilege. It would be unfair to punish the majority for the actions of a mere few. As stated in the paragraph previous to this one, punishment inflicted on the well behaved students can promote negative behavior. Students who never did anything wrong in the first place will be trying to understand why they are being punished for something they didn’t even do.
There are schools where the number of students is ridiculously high, causing overcrowding already. Lunch rooms are typically small, meaning that there would be people without anywhere to sit, and there would be people who couldn’t get their lunches before the end of the lunch period. Allowing kids to go off-campus for lunch will give more room to the students who decide to stay at school to eat. Also, it will help ensure that everyone is given a fair chance at getting something to eat for lunch, instead of having to spend the entire time waiting futilely in a seemingly endless