Editorial Final draft

Have you ever felt like someone has been lying to your face for years and you didn’t even know about it? It seems that the teachers and administration of Eastview high school have been working for a healthier student body for the past few years, which is obviously quite the opposite. They have been making major changes in the lunch room and down grading the snack quality in the vending machine for years. I remember back to my freshman year grabbing a bag of chips and a bottle of cola, those were the good days. Now every other bag of chips is baked instead of fried in some good ol’ grease, and non-diet sodas are nowhere to be found. This troubles me greatly, it’s even affecting me in the classroom. I can’t pay attention during notes, slide-shows, or even teacher’s lectures due to lack of caffeine and sugar in my daily life. How can they expect students to get through class without their mental power-ups they purchase 2 minutes before the class bell, I mean they know we’re quite capable of throwing our garbage away ourselves. None of this adds up so I decided to look into the matter to find out some real answers. As I was pondering the matter at my study hall table in the East commons chatting with some buddies, I witnessed who appeared to be a teacher walk out of the teacher conference room holding a bottle of mountain dews finest refreshment. Completely blinded by jealousy, I did not even begin to start putting pieces together in my mind, I just simply figured they smuggled their own beverage in from home, smart. It wasn’t until the next day when I saw the same teacher walk into the very same room holding nothing, and exit the room with a full bottle of Mountain Dew. With my mind completely and utterly blown away my spidy-like senses began to ring like the bell in a fire house during a code-red emergency. Being as brave as a fireman, I lurked my way into the room and what I discovered made my jaw drop down to the floor. I stood there petrified, I felt like I was starring into the eyes of Medusa herself. As I glazed upon the 7 foot, brightly colored and well advertized soda machine I tried to find one soda I wouldn’t drink on a warm summer day. I was amazed that this machine wasn’t stocked with a single diet bottle of soda. My heart began to tear into two pieces as I realized what has been going on all these years. The teachers have been hording all of the good non-diet soda in the teacher’s conference room, saving all the refreshing caffeine and sugar for themselves. I felt like a professional boxer wound up and punched me right in the gut, I was devastated to say the least. I felt totally betrayed by the same people I trusted with my education, and not to mention my safety as a student of Eastview high school. I’m writing this story today as a fellow student who is being wrongfully stripped of his/her privileges of a good refreshing and energizing beverage in hopes to bring down the wall of lies that the school has been feeding us the past 3 years. Someday I hope to come back to this school and see happy students throughout the commons, halls and classrooms sipping on a beverage of their choice.