Before I go into the facts and specifics, In my opinion, yes. It seems pointless to close the vending machines. Yes, we shouldn’t be buying and reselling the products we get out of the vending machines, that’s completely understandable, that’s against the school rules. But I believe you can buy as much as you want out of the vending machines if I’m not mistaken, and who’s to say what you do with it until ur caught misusing it? They removed the privileges as a whole and that’s ruined it for everybody else. Again, they’re just snacks. Why should anybody care what we do with them as long as we eat them and recycle the trash?
Imagine getting to school in the morning, your mouth is still dry from waking up, and you forgot your water bottle. You need to get something to drink, you go to the cafeteria for breakfast but the bell has already rung. You see the vending machines on the other side of the room, you push through the crowd of people to get to the other side. And then, the vending machines aren’t on. Neither of them. No snacks, no drinks, and the buttons aren’t even glowing.
It’s happened to me before and it’s probably happened to half of the other students in the school. There aren’t too many opportunities to get something to drink during school hours. Besides lunch and breakfast, unless you want to drink the school water, (which I’m not sure if I can slander publicly) you have nothing to drink. The school can get hot at times, and with everybody sweating and the occasional gym class, somebody is going to want something to drink.
The school isn’t losing money anyway. If anything, they’re gaining profit from the vending machines, and a tremendous amount too. Schools can earn over 200$ a day in vending machines alone, and that’s far too large of an amount to miss out on that could be going to more important things. In energy, It costs the school a whopping 14 cents a day! That’s almost 4 dollars a year! These devastating numbers are made obsolete by the 200$+ made from the vending machines if operational, every day.
We’re thirsty. We need water. Give us something to drink more often, please. Lunch and breakfast are too far apart and if we don’t come prepared before school you’re just dooming us to parchedness. I know I’m not the only person in the school with high thirst, and I need to constantly drink water and I’m always thirsty. What school could refuse extra income? This money could go into restocking the vending machines, powering them, or just overall improvements to the school. The vending machines are a large, unused asset in the school. Everybody misses the vending machines, the students and faculty enjoyed the snacks and drinks, and the school board enjoyed the surplus income from the machines. Everyone benefits from school vending machines and it caused more harm than good when they were turned off.
