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LUNCH TIME
Hurricane High Student Protest Shorten Lunches

Reported by: Send eMail Meredith Wood
Videographer: Jim Reed
Web Producer: Jessica Reed
Story Update: April 18, 2008 7:20pm

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Hurricane High School students are steamed over lunch breaks being cut down to 30 minutes. Students decided to protest the shortened lunches on Wednesday. The came after a bomb threat was made at the school on Wednesday. School official say they cut the lunch period by 30 minutes to gain back some class time. Students says the are still fed up with the school's bomb threat policy. The school has had numerous threats this year alone, with students missing about an hour of class on Wednesday. Karen Novinski with Putnam County Schools says students were not locked in the building. She says it boils down to education and the amount of time students are required to spend in class. The school day resumed as normal after lunch ended.




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