Local+Viewpoints

**__Local Viewpoints__  •Food Restrictions ** In our Cafeteria, we have a very limited selection. All of our food and drink must meet certain standards in order to be stocked on the cafeteria’s shelves. We then have to choose from this limited selection and are expected to be happy. We are not little kids. We should be able to make decisions for ourselves. If we can’t decide what foods are right for us, we are being set up to fail later in life, unable to make good decisions for ourselves.

**•Open Campus **  Open campus has been a very controversial subject. As of now, only seniors are allowed to leave for study hall, break, and lunch. We are striving to extend these privileges to juniors. In addition, we would like to allow those students with second period study halls to not be required to come to advisor and sleep in. They would then be able to come in for their third period class as their first class of the day.    **•School Consolidation **  School consolidation limits the opportunities of students. It furthers the gap for student-teacher relationships. By allowing school consolidation our taxes would increase because of transportations, cost of food, and an increased staff. Now even though students may enroll to Yarmouth, their is a tuition fee that covers all perviously mentioned costs. With this in mind, we opt to keep things the way they are. After all this is "the way life should be."    <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: normal;">**<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: left;">•Academic Probation ** <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: left;"> In Maine we, Yarmouth High School, are part of select schools that have academic probation in place. Yarmouth High School should not be oppressed by this rule, because it restricts students from doing well in athletics, when athletics could be the only way for the student to go on for further schooling. Do we really want an oppressive school? The school is prohibiting some students from further learning. <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: left;"> <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: left;"> <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">**<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: left;">•Reduce Police Force ** <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: left;"> The police force at Yarmouth is currently 22 including communications, animal control, and administrative assistants. This could be reduced thus reducing taxes and saving the town a lot of money. Yarmouth crime rates are much lower than the surrounding areas of Gray, Portland, and Old Orchard. The number of police needed is much less than the amount we have now. Yarmouth has some select highly talented officers who would easily be able to watch over us and keep peace. <span style="font-family: Helvetica,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: normal;"> <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0px;"> Home