Picture this: A cold winter morning. You get on the bus bright and early at 6:30 am. You didn’t have time to eat breakfast. You wait and wait because you realize that once you get to school, you can get a nice, fulfilling breakfast before you run off to class. You keep checking your phone, watching the time get closer to 8:30 as you begin to realize you might not have time to get breakfast. As you hit those bus circle doors right at 8:25, you come to a stop. Two choices: you go get breakfast and be late to class, or be hungry until lunch. What if you didn’t have to make that choice? What if you could scurry off to class on time and get breakfast?
There was once a time when you didn’t have to worry about being hungry. The Second Chance breakfast was a program run by the high school and middle school for kids who missed the initial breakfast. They would run a bunch of lunch carts around to the hallways and give kids a chance to eat breakfast if they had missed it earlier. I remember Second Chance breakfast being my rock in middle school. I would always show up late and not have the time to get breakfast, so a second chance was my saving grace, especially since I had the later lunch times in middle school.
But don’t just take my word for it. Ty Henry, a senior varsity athlete here at Woodford, has this to say about second chance breakfast: “Second Chance breakfast used to be my favorite part of the day.” “The last time I had a second-chance breakfast was probably around freshman year. I think they removed it because of COVID. They might have lost the free food grant.” “Second Chance breakfast being abolished is dumb because, even with their loss of free food grants, they would get more profit. Enough people would pay for a second-chance breakfast to make up for the loss of the food being given out.” Second chance breakfast stopped serving around 2023 and has still not been discussed as to why it was shut down.
A restriction of the Second Chance breakfast might be that it’s hard to organize where the carts go. The problem with this argument is that the new school is perfectly built to be able to support Second Chance breakfast. What I mean by that is, with the new “E-shaped” design of the school, the hallways would be easier to organize. Have one cart per hallway and just run them down the hall, going one way, and on the way back, have them get the other side of the hall.
To wrap up, Second Chance breakfast was unjustifiably abolished and should return. Despite a second chance seeming hard to organize it, can be easier and it would have a positive effect on the student body.
