The administration finally caved and the doors are officially opening for lunch. We forced them to treat us like adults and Owasso High School had no choice but to listen. Enjoy the freedom but keep your heads on straight so they have no excuse to take it back.
December 3, 2017
Final supporters
To whomever this may concern,
We, the student body would like to petition for an open campus lunch. We believe that sitting here in a facilitated building learning should give us more privileges as students of Owasso High School. An open campus lunch is a privilege that many students wish to have. We as students sit here for seven hours in a day, minus the seven minute passing period provided for students to get to and from their assigned classes. For seven hours we must sit and learn how to better our futures and learn responsibility for when we get to the “real world.” We are learning to be responsible and mature young adults.
We believe that an open campus lunch would teach our students how to manage time and be responsible with the time provided for lunch. It will also teach us money management skills, and also gives us a time to relax to be to ourselves if we wish. Closed campus forces us to be in this building for an extra half hour with people we may or may not like. The student body isn't asking to lengthen the lunches, what we are asking for is the simple privilege of going to any restaurant within a two mile radius of the high school.
The two mile radius is just for starters. In the future we would like to be able to go home and retrieve forgotten homework or be able to make our own lunches in the comfort of our own home if we wish to. Or go to starbucks and enjoy some coffee and work on school work. The student body is just wanting more options other than the food provided in the cafeteria(which is very limited and not very nutritious or flavorful), or the delivery services that cost almost $10.00 per time you place an order.
One of the restrictions the open campus lunch policy is that it should only be provided to the students that are in the junior and senior classes. This is because the upperclassmen have had a long enough understanding of what it's like to “be a ram” and show the desirable characteristics that the school as well as the city of Owasso has taught us. We are taught to be honest, reliable, diligent people that show others compassion, as well as respect. If we show these to fellow students then we can show these desirable traits to the workers of the community.
There will be restrictions according to grade level and of course if you are a licensed driver or not. We understand that there is a safety issue as to us leaving the school but if our parents, as well as the student, sign papers at the beginning of the year permitting us to leave, why don't we? Then the school should provide a detailed permission slip to each and every junior and senior student stating that the school is not liable for any injury between the times of when the student leaves until the student is to return back on campus for class. I bet you are wondering how are we going to be able to differentiate the grades? Well we pay $20.00 for a parking pass at the beginning of the year so we should make different colored parking passes for the Junior and senior class.
This petition is stating a request that has been the topic of conversation among the student body for many years now. Open campus lunches would benefit the city of owasso economically, characteristically and educationally. We will learn the basic skills of time management, learn money management, and learn what it's like to have the privilege to know that our school administration trust its student body to be able to handle this privilege.
Thank you for your time, Student body of OHS.
Updates
Reached 1,000 supporters
September 26, 2017
September 24, 2017
One hundred students have signed this because we are sick of being treated like prisoners in this building. The administration thinks we lack responsibility but they are the ones refusing to give us a shred of freedom.
September 22, 2017
The administration at Owasso High School continues to treat us like prisoners instead of young adults who can handle a simple lunch break. We have gathered massive momentum that proves they cannot ignore us forever. Keep the pressure on these officials until they actually listen to what we need.
Reached 100 supporters
September 22, 2017
203 Comments
High school is nothing like college. My first semester of college comes with so much more freedom and i feel like highschoolers should start learning how to be responsible without being bound by rules. Even if you do not make open lunch for all highschoolers, you should at least consider it as a senior privilege.
I would love to have this. But my dads graduation class was the last to have this. They lost a life driving to open lunches. I hope if this does happen it doesn't repeat itself
Open campus should be a thing for juniors and seniors, Owasso is one of the only highschools with a closed campus, if we cannot have an open campus, at least allow food trucks to come park on campus
I think that open campus should be limited to certain students because if it was open to all grades everyone would take advantage of it and being roughly around 2800 students, by the time you get out of the parking lot lunch will be over.
This is a no-brainer. Students shouldn't have to be pulled over and ticketed for going out to get actual food instead of eating what they're trying to serve at the school cafeteria. Give us an open campus to #MakeLunchGreatAgain
i dont go to owasso i just think these students should have open campus
We need open campus.
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The administration finally caved and the doors are officially opening for lunch. We forced them to treat us like adults and Owasso High School had no choice but to listen. Enjoy the freedom but keep your heads on straight so they have no excuse to take it back.
December 3, 2017
Final supporters
To whomever this may concern,
We, the student body would like to petition for an open campus lunch. We believe that sitting here in a facilitated building learning should give us more privileges as students of Owasso High School. An open campus lunch is a privilege that many students wish to have. We as students sit here for seven hours in a day, minus the seven minute passing period provided for students to get to and from their assigned classes. For seven hours we must sit and learn how to better our futures and learn responsibility for when we get to the “real world.” We are learning to be responsible and mature young adults.
We believe that an open campus lunch would teach our students how to manage time and be responsible with the time provided for lunch. It will also teach us money management skills, and also gives us a time to relax to be to ourselves if we wish. Closed campus forces us to be in this building for an extra half hour with people we may or may not like. The student body isn't asking to lengthen the lunches, what we are asking for is the simple privilege of going to any restaurant within a two mile radius of the high school.
The two mile radius is just for starters. In the future we would like to be able to go home and retrieve forgotten homework or be able to make our own lunches in the comfort of our own home if we wish to. Or go to starbucks and enjoy some coffee and work on school work. The student body is just wanting more options other than the food provided in the cafeteria(which is very limited and not very nutritious or flavorful), or the delivery services that cost almost $10.00 per time you place an order.
One of the restrictions the open campus lunch policy is that it should only be provided to the students that are in the junior and senior classes. This is because the upperclassmen have had a long enough understanding of what it's like to “be a ram” and show the desirable characteristics that the school as well as the city of Owasso has taught us. We are taught to be honest, reliable, diligent people that show others compassion, as well as respect. If we show these to fellow students then we can show these desirable traits to the workers of the community.
There will be restrictions according to grade level and of course if you are a licensed driver or not. We understand that there is a safety issue as to us leaving the school but if our parents, as well as the student, sign papers at the beginning of the year permitting us to leave, why don't we? Then the school should provide a detailed permission slip to each and every junior and senior student stating that the school is not liable for any injury between the times of when the student leaves until the student is to return back on campus for class. I bet you are wondering how are we going to be able to differentiate the grades? Well we pay $20.00 for a parking pass at the beginning of the year so we should make different colored parking passes for the Junior and senior class.
This petition is stating a request that has been the topic of conversation among the student body for many years now. Open campus lunches would benefit the city of owasso economically, characteristically and educationally. We will learn the basic skills of time management, learn money management, and learn what it's like to have the privilege to know that our school administration trust its student body to be able to handle this privilege.
Thank you for your time, Student body of OHS.
Updates
Reached 1,000 supporters
September 26, 2017
September 24, 2017
One hundred students have signed this because we are sick of being treated like prisoners in this building. The administration thinks we lack responsibility but they are the ones refusing to give us a shred of freedom.
September 22, 2017
The administration at Owasso High School continues to treat us like prisoners instead of young adults who can handle a simple lunch break. We have gathered massive momentum that proves they cannot ignore us forever. Keep the pressure on these officials until they actually listen to what we need.
Reached 100 supporters
September 22, 2017
203 Comments
Without an open campus kids will sneak and leave anyways. If something is to happen to somebody's part of the blame may be put on the school for not monitoring enough. Owasso should have an open campus.
High school is nothing like college. My first semester of college comes with so much more freedom and i feel like highschoolers should start learning how to be responsible without being bound by rules. Even if you do not make open lunch for all highschoolers, you should at least consider it as a senior privilege.
I would love to have this. But my dads graduation class was the last to have this. They lost a life driving to open lunches. I hope if this does happen it doesn't repeat itself
Open campus should be a thing for juniors and seniors, Owasso is one of the only highschools with a closed campus, if we cannot have an open campus, at least allow food trucks to come park on campus
I think that open campus should be limited to certain students because if it was open to all grades everyone would take advantage of it and being roughly around 2800 students, by the time you get out of the parking lot lunch will be over.
This is a no-brainer. Students shouldn't have to be pulled over and ticketed for going out to get actual food instead of eating what they're trying to serve at the school cafeteria. Give us an open campus to #MakeLunchGreatAgain
i dont go to owasso i just think these students should have open campus
We need open campus.
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Without an open campus kids will sneak and leave anyways. If something is to happen to somebody's part of the blame may be put on the school for not monitoring enough. Owasso should have an open campus.