As you may have heard on the announcements, coffee will be half price until the end of the year.

The big question is; why?

Well first of all, the cappuccino machine doesn’t actually belong to the high school. We purchase the powder that goes into the machine and mixes with the water to make the coffee,  and by purchasing that, we get to use the machine for free. “When we stop buying the product, the people come and take their machine away.” Mrs. Marshall explained to me.

This year,  the PAWS program took it over for this year to teach students how to run a business but they are running into the same problems that Mrs. Marshall talked about.  Mrs. Marshall said “It’s more of a hassle than its worth at times and really you have to have somebody who’s committed to running it and taking care of it and right now we just don’t have that person.”

The coffee shop used to be a resource room, until it was turned into the coffee shop. Mrs. Marshall explained, “The original intent was that it is an extension of the library; students don’t see it that way and they don’t treat it that way. They treat it more like the AC than the library and that’s where my problem comes in, that’s why I did not want to run it anymore. I was too much for me to try to supervise the library and the coffee shop, especially during lunch. Way too many people thinking ‘I can do whatever I want and not have to follow the rules of the library in here.'”