Food Fight at Columbine High School…..the only reason this is making news is because it happened at Columbine. At any other school, this would not have even been reported.
I remember when we had a food fight at my high school. I only saw the after effects of it. Basically everyone knew a food fight was being planned. I had a late lunch time. By the time I got in there, the 30 second food fight had ended. Apparently the teachers stopped it before it even had a chance to really get started. The cafeteria was a bit messier than usual. I was somewhat of a prude then and was pretty worried about not being able to finish my meal before the food fight started. I was also worried about my clothes being messed up.
I have a few other memories of the cafeteria. The high school cheerleaders were able to get a coin operated jukebox in the cafeteria to raise funds so they could go to their cheer competitions. Anyways, at the time Prince’s “Diamonds and Pearls” song was pretty popular. Someone would always put this in the jukebox, sometimes several times during the lunch period. At one point a school coach got so sick of the song, he unplugged the jukebox when it came up again. I’ll always associate “Diamond’s and Pearls” with that incident.
Lunchtime during elementary school was an interesting experience. Apparently the loudness of the cafeteria was getting to the teachers. (The teachers were forced to sit in the cafeteria to watch the students). I don’t recall it being really loud, but who am I to say? In order to combat the noise polution, the teachers set up a mircophone which Mrs. Duncan would go to and say “Five Minutes of No Talking.” Later on they got a stoplight – if it was green you could talk; yellow meant whisper; and red meant no talking. The “bad kids” never payed attention to the light. Just some of the stupid things we had to endure because of school mismanagement. The easy solution would be to get parents to volunteer to watch the cafeteria during the lunch hour while the teachers ate in the smoke filled teachers’ lounge.
One of the few times I got in trouble was in the elementary school cafeteria. It was during my kindergarten year. I had a nice metal Aladdin “Dukes of Hazzard” lunchbox. At the far end of a cafeteria table a kid in my class told me to slide my lunchbox to him so that he could catch it. I did and he just let it fall (on purpose). The metal lunchbox made a loud noise which caused everyone to stop talking for a second. For punishment my teacher made me hold her hand on the way back to the classroom. How embarrassing for a Kindergartener!