| Beginning with the fall of 2006 school
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| | of the Denver schools principals,
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| year, many high schools in the Denver
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| | administrators presented the final plan,
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| schools system will close their campuses
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| | which requires all freshmen to remain on
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| during lunchtime. This means that Denver
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| | campus. Waivers may be requested for the
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| schools students will not be allowed to
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| | other grades of 10th, 11th and 12th.After
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| leave campus to eat at nearby
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| | the meeting, principals scrambled to make
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| restaurants, fast foods, and convenience
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| | the new Denver schools policy work. Since
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| stores.Denver schools superintendent
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| | the lunchtime schedule dictates the
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| Michael Bennet introduced the final draft
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| | classroom schedules, the new Denver Plan
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| of the new policy, called the Denver
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| | is causing an upheaval in many Denver
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| Plan, in the spring of 2006. Bennet
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| | schools, where they have a common
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| believes his plan will reduce the
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| | lunchtime for all students and teachers.
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| increasing afternoon truancy within the
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| | Small cafeteria capacity means multiple
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| high schools.The Denver schools plan has
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| | lunchtime schedules must be implemented.
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| taken several drafts to reach
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| | For example, Denver schools East High
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| implementation. The first draft was
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| | School enrolls 2,092 students with a
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| introduced to Denver schools principals
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| | cafeteria that seats only 258. If only
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| in November of 2005, suggesting that
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| | the 750 freshmen are kept on school
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| schools could submit waiver requests by
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| | grounds during lunchtime, at least three
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| April to exempt the older students in
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| | lunch periods will be required. This also
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| 11th and 12th grades. A second draft was
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| | upsets the activities by possible by a
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| presented to the Denver schools
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| | common lunch period, such as club
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| principals in February 2006, amending the
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| | meetings, students meeting with classroom
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| original policy by stating that more time
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| | teachers, and students socializing with
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| was needed to determine how the policy
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| | their friends and siblings who are in
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| would be implemented. At a March meeting
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| | different classes.
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