Food flew all over the place, teachers yelled, girls cried, boys laughed, people sidestepped spaghetti while others had been swinging their lunch. That’s what happened last year at JND, when students of secondary 5 started throwing food which had a snowball effect.
Why did it all begin? Nobody really knows. However, we do know that it had been planed, but we don't know why. So the only thing we can do is to speculate on it.
What's interesting is not the first food fight in JND’s history, but mostly the side effects of it. Some of the side effects are obvious. A good example of them would be the mess that had been created in the cafeteria and all the stained clothes.
To find out the long terms effects, I've interviewed someone who’s always in the cafeteria and was there when it all began: Liliane. She was struck dead by surprise. First she tried to stop it. However, she knew that it was impossible. Than, she took cover by hiding behind the trash can. She was saddened by the student’s behavior. As she said in her interview:” I was really disappointed by the way they acted because we’ve took our time on a Sunday to prepare graduation ceremony, and to thank us the secondary 5 started a food fight”. She also said that the things she liked the most was the atmosphere of the school. However, she said that after the food fight, the atmosphere of the school sent shivers down her spine.
Since Liliane works as a support staff, I interviewed Richard, who’s more involved in the school administration. He was really upset because the students in 5th grade didn’t act maturely as without considering the consequences of their acts.
He told me: “It didn’t disturb me that the secondary 5 had done a great feat to emphasize their last days at the JND. One year, the secondary 5 climbed on the juvenat’s bell tower and rang it twice while hanging a banner.” The difference was that the administration knew what was going to happen. Since the dozen slabs couldn’t be cleaned, they had to be replaced. The cancelation of the famous hot-dog dinner was mostly because they didn’t want to reward the student’s behavior.
This event had repercussions on everyone in the school. Now that you know the whole story,would you ever consider doing it again?
By Xavier Boucher for the JND post, Quebec, October 12th 2009
