The Scoop on Triton’s Vending Machines

Why the vending machines are no longer available

Paige Zukowski, Staff Writer

This year, Triton no longer has the vending machines available to the students. They have been turned around and faced backwards, but why?

 

After talking to the students at Triton High School, The Triton Voice has discovered that students not too happy about the change with the vending machines.

 

Junior Kelly Kozlowski explains, “I think the vending machines should be put back in because we can only buy snacks third period, but now they won’t even let us do that, and it’s not fair because most kids are hungry and don’t have time to pack snacks in the morning so they have no other way to get food.

 

Some students think it makes it harder to pay attention, having no food available to them to eat, as senior Sarah Norton says. “I think we lose more concentration by trying to learn on an empty stomach than being two or three minutes late for class.”

 

Junior Meri Fullford says, “I feel like taking the vending machines out are making the students mad because we barely have time to eat before school and during lunch, and this takes away a lot of our chances to eat, so now we feel like we are going to faint during our long school day.”

 

The students are clearly upset about the removal of the vending machines in our school, and have strong opinions on it, but the school principal, Mr. Ruggere gives an explanation for it.

 

“About three of four years ago the state changed the dietary standards for schools. They’re only allowed to have certain types of foods and we’re actually behind the times on getting rid of the vending machines.”