Dr. David Holley, principal, and Mike Gavin, sophomore principal, delivered a shocking announcement on Wednesday: lunches will be shortened if students do not start using the entire time allotted.

“It was a joke,” Holley said. “A hyperbole to make a point. There’s almost no chance of changing it this year.”

The reason the threat was made was due to students walking the halls and disrupting academic classes.

“Chaos is roaming the halls,” Mike Wade, freshman principal, said.

If lunch is shortened, up to six minutes of academic time could be added to the day and will happen next year if at all. As it is, administrators are worried that there is not enough supervision for students to be all over the campus during lunches. Teachers and staff are also guaranteed at least 30 minutes for lunch, as stated by their contracts.

“If you don’t need the time, go outside,” Holley said.

The area Holley is speaking of is south of the flagpole, or from the Essex parking lot to the main office, where no classes will be disturbed.