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What’s on the lunch menu for the students at Cleveland High School today? It’s Power Lunch, and it’s the school’s new trend for the year.
This lunch time specialty is overseen by Assistant Principal Brian Johnson, and it enables students to have an hour for lunch in which they must complete four tutorials per class per nine weeks. After all tutorials have been finished, students have an hour to do with what they please. Along with clubs, students can play intramurals or take part in small group work sessions in the media center or in the courtyard. Lunch is also a time for students to become social in hopes to embark upon becoming a united family here at Cleveland.
Johnson said he only had good things to say about the endorsement of Power Lunch. Johnson worked with this lunch schedule previously at Panther Creek High School – the first high school in Wake County to try this schedule, originally called “SMART Lunch.” CHS Principal Anne Meredith toured a few schools running this schedule, and administration looked into data of how they could structure CHS’ Power Lunch to maximize student efficacy. Unlike other schools that have five to seven lunch periods, Power Lunch will help students thrive and become successful at Cleveland High School. Johnson said, “I hope students utilize Power Lunch for academic, social and athletic empowerment, so that Cleveland High School can become one community.”
A community is just what CHS is becoming. The Chronicle asked a few students how they thought Power Lunch was going and most gave it raving reviews. Most agreed that it got off to a rough start, but that’s nothing a couple of days of practice can’t help. Students are already heading to their class’ tutorials for extra assistance. CHS student Kayla Trevethan said, “Power Lunch is really good, and it lets people catch up with their school work and be with their friends.”
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