Food deliveries for Clovis North students banned: ‘It’s a distraction our kiddos don’t need’
FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) – Students at Clovis North High School will no longer be able to order food from their favorite delivery apps anymore.
Clovis North students can no longer receive items from services such as Uber Eats, DoorDash, and other delivery apps while on campus. A parent with children in the district says food on the go is getting in the way.
“It’s a distraction our kiddos don’t need. They already have technology that’s taking their attention away from what’s important,” said parent Gwen McFadden.
Clovis North announced the move to ban deliveries from “third-party delivery systems” on April 29. The school continues to provide free meals to students.
“I’m happy about it. I actually didn’t know that they even accepted it in the first place. When you’re sitting in the classroom and it’s instruction time, our kiddos don’t need to be worrying about what they’re ordering on DoorDash,” McFadden said.
Officials with Clovis Unified School District say too many students were ordering food, causing traffic inside and outside.
“It was a constant stream of deliveries. Anytime I was at a campus you would pass three or four in just the few minutes you were walking to and from the campus, so about easily a hundred or more a day,” Clovis Unified School District’s Kelly Avants said.
The hundreds of weekly deliveries also became a safety issue.
“Also because the drivers themselves were not being respectful about ‘come to this one location and drop that off’ so that was a problem. People were trying to enter campuses from other locations, not respecting our check-in procedures,” Avants said.
And most times, the school was unaware of what was actually entering classrooms.
“Not only do you not know who those people are that are delivering, you really don’t and can’t monitor what they’re bringing into campus, which is another safety element,” Avants said.
Avants said the district is moving forward to end food deliveries for all the schools in Clovis Unified.
