Imagine hastily walking three flights of stairs to a classroom during lunch to turn in a late assignment. Suddenly, a school staff member stops you and tells you to leave the main building because it is closed during lunch.  You begin to panic because you need to urgently turn in the homework that you forgot to do. In another situation, you have a club meeting during lunch and the staff refuses to let you in because you are not authorized to be there. You have no choice but to spend the rest of lunchtime outside, thus missing your meeting.
According to school policy, students are not allowed inside the main building before school and during nutrition and lunch. During the first few weeks of school this policy was not enforced and students were allowed to stay inside the building.  Now they are forced to exit the building even when they have to turn something in, attend club meetings, or make up tests.
The school has legitimate reasons for prohibiting teens from staying in hallways during breaks. Some students may write graffiti on the walls, soil hallways and stairs with spilled food, make loud, disruptive noise in the halls, or perform other inappropriate actions in the building. However, this rule is not fair for students who follow school rules. Some students just want some peace away from the noisy cafeteria or want a place to hang out with their friends without being bothered. The staff and teachers who enforce this rule should not be blamed for doing so, but it is still not fair that all students should have this privilege taken away because of the handful of misbehaving students.    
It would be great if the school can come up with a form that looks like a summons to let students in the building for make up tests and club meetings during lunch. There can be guards who stand by the building doors who let students with these forms inside. This would be a quick and efficient way that doesn’t require a lot of effort.
Many students at Fairfax have had a problem with this rule and understand the logic of the argument against it. We students should be allowed to stay inside the building as long as we follow the rules and behave appropriately. The entire student population should not have its rights taken away just because a handful of students break the rules. If the rule continues to be enforced, a new place should be created for students to hang out that is quiet enough for them to do their homework while they eat.