Who put $100 in the trash today?, Geraldine Ramirez

Money is just being thrown away. College Park feeds us, but we're not eating. Our lunches overflow the trash cans in our hallways and restrooms every day. There is enough food being thrown away to feed a small country.

If I were Principal Gordon the mathematical equation I would have nightmares about is: lunch = money. And I would picture those trash cans overflowing with crisp ones, fives, tens, and twenty dollar bills. Imagine all that cash being picked up by Oakland's Waste Management and taken to the dump.

Those lunches, oops I mean money, could be used for more important things, such as books, computers, or school supplies -- things we students really need to succeed academically. Principal Gordon is not to blame, we the students are.

If the students don’t take care of our school who will? Instead of throwing our money, oops I mean lunches, away maybe the student-body should have communicated with Principal Gordon that we do not like the lunches and would like to create an alternative with him and avoid wasting money, but we didn't. We sent the school's cash to the Oakland dump.

Principal Gordon responded by forming a Food Committee to resolve this issue of waste. It sickens me to think that College Park students would so easily fill up the Oakland dump with crisp cash and then have the audacity to complain about being a poor school and having a lack of supplies and resources on this campus.

For more on this topic, please read the article on our school newspaper website.