Controversial Policy - Eating in the Classroom

Obviously we are not allowed to eat during class, but what about the teachers? While students are independently or working in a group, or any time when the teacher doesn't have to lecture for the moment, sometimes they eat their breakfast, lunch, or even a small snack right in front of us. Some students--including myself--are hungry during most class periods, so watching someone eating food right in front of our faces when our stomachs are screaming at us--and possibly the person next to us--is not pleasantly endured. Why are teachers the only exception to the rule of no food in class? A better question would be, why can't they let us eat during class if they make us suffer by making us watch them chow down on their lunch while all we have is paper to gnaw on? Speaking generally and evidently, food will fill our famished stomachs. During class, if we were starving, we would have to endure the embarrassment of a peer listening to the sounds our grumbling stomachs make. Clearly it is impossible to control the "sounds of music" our stomachs create when we are hungry, but by eating in class, we could save ourselves the embarrassment. If I could modify this rule, I would let everyone--students and teachers; faculty included--eat in class, however, only allow them to eat if they were working individually, have finished the assignment, have nothing else to do, etc. I would modify the rule to allow students to only eat when teachers eat in front of them, but why say that when it is my new policy?

-Arlynn Adamos Period 4