The issue Mr. Cornman brought up about the messes in the cafeteria at our school can be seen serious at this moment, but I definitely believe there can be a change done to improve the situation. Assuming this issue has reached the highest peak to Mr. Cornman's eyes that he now began voicing it out loud even during classes, students are now very aware of how teachers feel and will have time to think on fixing the issue.
On Tuesday during his class after lunch, he could not stand how the cafeteria looked and was distracted by the trashes he saw step after step. Potato chip wrappers, candy wrappers, three banana peels, two partially eaten bananas, one on floor that had been stepped, and grade papers with sticky parts from spilled drink. Only impression he could give on such messes was, 'disgusting.'
The mess could not be compared to anything he saw at the schools Mr. Cornman has been at school for 25 years, that he either attended or taught. The mess in SPPA cafeteria was the 'worst' he has ever seen. With no intention to hurt the students at SPPA, he can only choose to say that the students have too little responsibilities over what they do. Maybe the students believe someone other than them would clean the messes caused by them, but they should know that they are no more little children that there is not always going to be someone looking after their back. They need to learn how to take care of themselves and to have a pride over their surroundings.
To end, he strongly believes the school has to step up and put in action to bring a change to the cafeteria. Journalism students brought up some questions and solutions to fix the problem, but I think the sole solution to this issue will only be done by us, the students of SPPA. No matter how many better solutions are there that students could think of, to hire a cleaning lady, buy big trash bins, or to ban bending machines, the best solution is that each student take responsibility and always make sure he or she clean up the messes made by them.
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