An espresso machine in a high school?

[YankeeFan]

A couple of months ago, we installed an espresso machine in an expensive, private K-12, that is very popular with prominent families in Chicago.

I just got a work order to install a machine in a large, public school, in a fairly high income suburb.

High school kids have been after school regulars at Starbucks and their competitors for a while now, but I'm still surprised to see this. Plus, these are $16,000 machines we're talking about.

Professionally, I'm all for it. 15 years ago, college kids went to off campus coffee shops. Now, there are multiple shops on campus. Hospitals didn't have machine, but now they all do.

Would it bother you if your child's high school put in a coffee shop?

 

[Buck]

We had an old-style coffee vending machine in my high school.

My kids are too young for me to worry about it now, but I can guarantee you their not getting the equivalent of $5 a day for expensive coffee.
I don't know how today's teens do it. Aren't they buying weed and liquor anymore? What has happened to our youth?

 

[dixiehack]

My parents graduated in 1974 from a high school that had a dedicated smokers pit for students. In the long view of history, I think we're doing relatively ok.

 

[Ace]

A couple of months ago, we installed an espresso machine in an expensive, private K-12, that is very popular with prominent families in Chicago.

I just got a work order to install a machine in a large, public school, in a fairly high income suburb.

High school kids have been after school regulars at Starbucks and their competitors for a while now, but I'm still surprised to see this. Plus, these are $16,000 machines we're talking about.

Professionally, I'm all for it. 15 years ago, college kids went to off campus coffee shops. Now, there are multiple shops on campus. Hospitals didn't have machine, but now they all do.

Would it bother you if your child's high school put in a coffee shop?

I just can't get over an espresso machine costing $16,000. If they are charging for the coffee and expect to pay for it, whatever.

 

[Baron Scicluna]

My oldest's high school is looking at pushing back the start time out of concern the kids aren't fully awake for the start of the school day (around 7:30 a.m.)

Maybe they should just install an espresso machine.

 

[Riptide]

Area Man Arrested After Hourlong Rant in School Cafeteria

 

[YankeeFan]

My parents graduated in 1974 from a high school that had a dedicated smokers pit for students. In the long view of history, I think we're doing relatively ok.

I graduated in 1987, and seniors were allowed to smoke cigarets in the "senior section" of the cafeteria.

I think you might have needed parental permission as well.

It probably helped that our principal was a chain smoker. I don't think it lasted long after I graduated. Kind of crazy to think about now.

 

[dixiehack]

I know plenty obviously do, but I don't see how teens afford to become regular smokers now. A crack habit is practically a bargain in comparison.

 

[Batman]

My older sisters graduated in 1988 and '89, and I think they banned smoking on campus while they were in school. When I came through a few years later, the wood shop teacher Mr. Folis -- who wore 1970s polyester clothes every day and looked every bit like the stereotypical wood shop teacher -- delighted in busting the kids who tried to sneak one in on the backside of the school. He'd sit in his car across the street, watch from the emergency door in the wood shop that led outside, you name it. He'd even razz some of the kids in our seventh-period class that he busted at lunch that day.

 

[SpeedTchr]

Yup, my school had a smoking pit, too. Always watched which chicks went in there, because then I knew they were easy.

Made it easier to whack it to their images in my mind.

 

[Football_Bat]

I'm glad parents' attitudes toward coffee are changing. Kids drinking coffee used to be discouraged even while they were plowing through soda pop. Coffee is much, much better for kids and adults alike.

 

[YankeeFan]

Yup, my school had a smoking pit, too. Always watched which chicks went in there, because then I knew they were easy.

Wasn't an option at my all male school.

 

[YankeeFan]

I'm glad parents' attitudes toward coffee are changing. Kids drinking coffee used to be discouraged even while they were plowing through soda pop. Coffee is much, much better for kids and adults alike.

I suppose that depends on what you put in your coffee.

 

[cjericho]

My parents graduated in 1974 from a high school that had a dedicated smokers pit for students. In the long view of history, I think we're doing relatively ok.

There was a smoking pit in my high school in the late 80s, pretty sure it remained until mid or late 90s.

 

[Killick]

Catholic school, 1988. No smoking pit, no soda machine, still served only milk or juice with lunch. A FB friend now teaches at our alma mater, related that there are soda machines everywhere, water fountains that dispense filtered water into your water bottle and coffee machines on every other floor. I'm pretty jealous of those damned kids.

 

[cjericho]

Catholic school, 1988. No smoking pit, no soda machine, still served only milk or juice with lunch. A FB friend now teaches at our alma mater, related that there are soda machines everywhere, water fountains that dispense filtered water into your water bottle and coffee machines on every other floor. I'm pretty jealous of those damned kids.

Really? Definitely not jealous of the kids at my school. They may have filtered water and newer nicer buildings, but the area is so gentrified if they think about having a cig or a few beers at lunch time someone will see and notify the school or the cops.

 

[JC]

A couple of months ago, we installed an espresso machine in an expensive, private K-12, that is very popular with prominent families in Chicago.

I just got a work order to install a machine in a large, public school, in a fairly high income suburb.

High school kids have been after school regulars at Starbucks and their competitors for a while now, but I'm still surprised to see this. Plus, these are $16,000 machines we're talking about.

Professionally, I'm all for it. 15 years ago, college kids went to off campus coffee shops. Now, there are multiple shops on campus. Hospitals didn't have machine, but now they all do.

Would it bother you if your child's high school put in a coffee shop?

You're a dealer.

 

[JC]

Yup, my school had a smoking pit, too. Always watched which chicks went in there, because then I knew they were easy.

Made it easier to whack it to their images in my mind.

Couldn't seal the deal?

 

[HanSenSE]

My parents graduated in 1974 from a high school that had a dedicated smokers pit for students. In the long view of history, I think we're doing relatively ok.

I graduated in 78. A portion of the quad was designated the student smoking area. The Smoking Committee even rated a photo in the yearbook. I think they finally outlawed all smoking on campus in the 90s. The way kids continue to drink soda and slurp up energy drinks, could coffee be as bad socially?

 

[ChrisLong]

'70 grad. Students weren't allowed to smoke. The teachers did. The local JC was nicknamed "High School with ashtrays."
As for soda. They didn't sell it on campus, but we had an open campus for lunch so you could go anywhere and have anything you wanted.