From beginning of this new semester, KMLA’s disciplinary office had changed its policy on student’s meal time. Traditionally, the 3rd graders who are the oldest among students, had a privilege of eating lunch and dinner first, and then the younger students including the 2nd and the 1st graders could get their meal. This policy had taken its place solidly in KMLA until the last semester, but it is now changed. Since the 3rd graders seem to abuse their privilege in order to get much food regardless of the amount, the head of the student disciplinary office, Mr. Sung, had claimed on reformation.
A new meal time policy is that the order of getting meals will be rotated with an interval. Also, younger students will get their meal prior to older students in the first few days of the 2nd semester. After one interval ends, students who previously ate earliest will be placed last in the order. For example, 1st graders ate lunch and dinner first, then 2nd graders, and then 3rd graders were allowed to come to cafeteria for their meals until September 7th. After September 7th, when one interval ends, 2nd graders can eat first and 1st graders are the last to eat their lunch and dinner.
As expected, the new policy has stimulated a controversy over many students. Seniors, of course, were the ones who fiercely disagreed with this modification. Since they had previously obtained priority on getting meals, they somewhat felt that they have lost one of their privileges which they should naturally receive as the oldest among all students. A senior Kim Bum-Soo has claimed that there is no such reason for changing previous meal time policy. He said “no differences are made by changing the orders of receiving meals, and for showing a respect towards older students, previous meal policy should be reinstalled”.
There are a lot of different opinions among sophomores and freshmen. A sophomore Kim Chan-Jung said, “there seem to be a lot of complains regarding this new rule. If the purpose of this policy is to make every person get proper amount of food, school should rather make every student not take food more than the proper amount”. However, one of the 1st graders Kim Seung-Min insisted “seniors should definitely be respected, but it is not logical that they should be exempt from the rule just because they are busy”.
About two weeks have passed since the installment of new policy regarding meal order of students. Although a large proportion of students show disagreement, Mr. Sung seems to advocate this policy, saying it would be observed unless the 3rd graders change their attitudes and consider other students who may have not gotten proper amount of food because of them. At this point, whether the new policy will remain solidly is quite unsure. Above all, however, it is true that all students need to think of others, and respect cafeteria etiquettes so that everyone can get proper amount of meals.
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This is what I have submitted for applying Harbinger, an English newspaper club which is mainly organized by students of special-purpose high school (it's a kind of high school like KMLA). Since articles in newspaper have to remain objective, I excluded my personal opinions, except saying "Above all, however, it is true that all students need to think of others, and respect cafeteria etiquettes so that everyone can get proper amount of meals". Personally, I like this new policy because it feels like everyone is being equal; but as mentioned above, who knows this policy will be continued or not?
I saw a similar article in the Herald. I agree with you, it does seem like a good idea...but have they kept it? Food is serious business (and every student pays for it) so it should be treated as fairly as possible. Good article.
답글삭제ㄴwell...in fact the policy is still kept but there's some modifications. Most importantly, seniors are privileged to eat first and then sophomores and freshmen take turns. Quite simple...isn't it?
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