To the editor:

I am a junior at Lawrence High School, and I keep reading in the paper the articles about whether they are going to take away our open lunches and now if they are going to take away the “junk food” in our cafeteria.

Well, I would just like to say, in high school we are preparing to go into the adult world, and once we get there, we are expected to make our own choices and decisions. Not only do those decisions we make affect ourselves but they affect other people as well.

Now the school district is wanting to take away what few choices we have as high-schoolers. Some of us who go to high school are old enough to vote, which is old enough to help decide who is the next president, but we are not old enough to pick whether or not we want a cookie or an apple. Half of us pay for our lunches with our own money, and if we want to buy a cookie with the money that we make, from the jobs we have, it should be our choice what we have for lunch, not the choice of the school district.

School already takes about eight hours of our life, not including if you do sports or band or some other activity, and we have no choice about if we go to school.

To take away what little choice we have is not going to make us more prepared for the adult world. It’s going to make us less prepared. So I think people need to think about what they are really taking away.

Jenny McGee,

Baldwin