Picture this: You’re walking down the hall with your stomach grumbling like an intense thunderstorm. You have no food in your bag at all that you can chow down on. You can’t take it anymore; you have to have a little snack or something to hold you over. You look all around the school just to find nothing. There’s not a single thing that you can get to hold you over whatsoever! It’s been far too long since any of the North Atlanta students have been able to replenish themselves with quick eats, and I’ve had enough!
There should be no excuse for having no snack vending machines in the first place. I mean, we already see a plethora of drink vending machines across the first few floors of the building. Even though we should also have more of those across the school, an easier alternative would be to just add snack vending machines on the higher floors where classes are. Through the addition of snacks to the vending machine arsenal alongside the drinks, the school could earn a lot more money because of the number of students that are going to be all over the snacks department. On that same topic, snack vending machines would eradicate the annoyance of eating in the classroom. The ruining of the floors, the bickering between student and teacher, the constant chewing and smacking while it’s completely silent; Finally gone once students start to eat a snack outside the class. Students also can finally feel relieved of their hunger in the classroom, something that will, in hand, lead to better productivity while working at school as well as more attention to their studies rather than their “hanger”.
So what are we even waiting for? These vending machines made a brief cameo in the 2021-22 school year, but their feature was incredibly short-lived and only lasted two months at the very maximum, and every student has been craving their return ever since. If we are so worried about the cost of their implementation, let’s start slow. We should first install the vending machines on the 4th and 5th floors, or the “freshmen floors” as they are normally dubbed. These vending machines, just like the drink ones, would be on lower floors that are accessible to all students (or teachers if they are feeling a little hungry), but also not conflicting and jam-packed with the drink vending machines. In addition, the slow start could also include only a couple of vending machines rather than a bunch so that we can maintain them efficiently to start. Since it’s a known fact that they will be a hit from the get-go, the school can gradually put more and more snack vending machines as the year goes on and the next school year rolls around.
So Dubs, what do we say? Let’s lock in and install these snack vending machines. Not only for the kids and their cravings but also for the teachers and their annoyances (and equal cravings).
