letter revised

Dear Mrs. Corry,
My name is Euan McGarvie (5c3) and am writing to you on behalf of those who use the drama studio as a common room during lunch times. We are writing with regards to the letter that was given to us during lunch time today giving us information on the changed rules on the use of common rooms and would like to express some concern over some of the new rules..

We have read over the new revised common room rules and many of us have some issues with the some of the new rules , namely the rules concerning not being allowed to bring food into the common room.

We are aware that there are some pupils of the school who abuse rights and do not follow the current rules regarding common rooms. However, we feel that restricting every student, including those who don’t abuse the rights given to them, only makes things worse.

We can understand that food is not allowed in many parts of the school to avoid litter and cutlery etc. not being returned to the canteen. However, our common room is situated particularly close to the Atrium and has several bins inside the room itself and have had no complaints from the teachers about our use of the room to date. We simply feel that with the new rule of being unable to eat inside our common room, the point of having the common room is defeated as our principle activity inside the common room is socializing while eating lunch without needing to sit in the crowded atrium.

We think that a better way of tackling this problem would be to fully implement the anti-litter rules inside the common rooms, putting more focus onto getting the pupils to take responsibility for cleaning the rooms themselves, which we are more than willing to do. A possible compromise we have come up with would be to disallow food being brought in from the school cafeteria, but to allow packet lunches to be eaten in the common room. This would make the issue of cutlery and dishes not being returned to the cafeteria no longer a problem and would allow food to be consumed inside the common room as before.

Just to be clear, we are in no way opposed to cleaning the common room ourselves before the end of lunch. We are only asking for permission to eat food during lunch inside the common room as opposed to having to find spaces in the atrium which makes the common room pointless as explained above.

It would be greatly appreciated by the users of the drama studio if you could get in touch as soon as possible so that we could talk over the issues raised above. I can be contacted in Mr. Greens classroom every morning during registration if you want to get in touch. Alternatively you can contact Ben Howell (5L2) in C13 who would also be able to discuss the problem with you.


Yours sincerely

Euan McGarvie