Are your kids eating lunch outside?

[Anonymous]

My kid has been eating lunch outside most days- they have to sit far away from each other and can't face another kid. I suspect they will be inside today but I also won't be totally shocked if they were still eating outside today. They don't have heaters.

[Anonymous]

During the Spanish flu pandemic, students moved to outdoor classrooms in the dead of winter. While eating outdoors in the cold is undesirable, if it helps to reduce spread of the virus, I'm all for it. It's only twenty minutes, after all. I guess this country is no longer a place where people make sacrifices for the greater good . . .

[Anonymous]

When I was in school at a private, we were not required to eat in the dining area. We were able to spread out, but the rule was that if you ate hot lunch and didn't return your tray and cutlery to the dining area, you were banned from eating outside of the dining area for a month as punishment.

Why can't they do something like this?

Eating lunch outside on a day like today is unfathomable!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:During the Spanish flu pandemic, students moved to outdoor classrooms in the dead of winter. While eating outdoors in the cold is undesirable, if it helps to reduce spread of the virus, I'm all for it. It's only twenty minutes, after all. I guess this country is no longer a place where people make sacrifices for the greater good . . .

Please. Unlike 1918, these kids are all vaccinated and boosted!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OK... we get it. Yes we're in a pandemic in which 3 people residing in DC died yesterday, but this performative nonsense is getting a bit ridiculous.

It's currently 19 degrees out and my kids will once again be eating lunch outside so that they can remove their double masks for 20 minutes without the risk of killing anyone. One of my kids described a scene in which 70+ kids huddle around two heat lamps, "like homeless people living under a bridge," in an attempt to keep warm. The teachers, of course, eat inside.

You're welcome to guess which DC private school I'm talking about.

Would be interested in hearing if others are doing the same.

It’s funny- I remember parents screaming that schools should be setting up facilities so kids can eat outside and that it’s a fine year-round solution here because it’s not Maine or Michigan. Now that schools have actually done this, parents are screaming that it’s cruel and unusual.

It’s almost as if some people just want to complain.

[Anonymous]

My kids’ independent school in MoCo is having the kids eat snacks and lunch outside, even in weather like this. They only eat inside of it’s raining. My kids are in the lower school. One of my kids is coming home with a nearly full lunchbox because they say they are too cold to eat.

I’m super irritated — I’m only not complaining because I’m not sure if it is being driven by the teachers or by parents. I’m much more sympathetic to teachers being concerned about covid than parents.

Fwiw, my kids are vaccinated, so it’s not like we are Covid deniers, but schools need to find a pathway to a new normal with Covid - preferably one that doesn’t involve eating outside in sub-freezing temperatures.

[Anonymous]

In Baltimore - option of eating outdoors or indoors with an empty seat in btw each kid.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OK... we get it. Yes we're in a pandemic in which 3 people residing in DC died yesterday, but this performative nonsense is getting a bit ridiculous.

It's currently 19 degrees out and my kids will once again be eating lunch outside so that they can remove their double masks for 20 minutes without the risk of killing anyone. One of my kids described a scene in which 70+ kids huddle around two heat lamps, "like homeless people living under a bridge," in an attempt to keep warm. The teachers, of course, eat inside.

You're welcome to guess which DC private school I'm talking about.

Would be interested in hearing if others are doing the same.

It’s funny- I remember parents screaming that schools should be setting up facilities so kids can eat outside and that it’s a fine year-round solution here because it’s not Maine or Michigan. Now that schools have actually done this, parents are screaming that it’s cruel and unusual.

It’s almost as if some people just want to complain.

18 months ago,I would agree with you. But now there are vaccines etc. and (most) people get very sick from covid. it is Jan, 2022 and not April of June of 2020.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OK... we get it. Yes we're in a pandemic in which 3 people residing in DC died yesterday, but this performative nonsense is getting a bit ridiculous.

It's currently 19 degrees out and my kids will once again be eating lunch outside so that they can remove their double masks for 20 minutes without the risk of killing anyone. One of my kids described a scene in which 70+ kids huddle around two heat lamps, "like homeless people living under a bridge," in an attempt to keep warm. The teachers, of course, eat inside.

You're welcome to guess which DC private school I'm talking about.

Would be interested in hearing if others are doing the same.

It’s funny- I remember parents screaming that schools should be setting up facilities so kids can eat outside and that it’s a fine year-round solution here because it’s not Maine or Michigan. Now that schools have actually done this, parents are screaming that it’s cruel and unusual.

It’s almost as if some people just want to complain.

18 months ago,I would agree with you. But now there are vaccines etc. and (most) people get very sick from covid. it is Jan, 2022 and not April of June of 2020.

most peopel DON"T get very sick from covid because vaccines protect them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:During the Spanish flu pandemic, students moved to outdoor classrooms in the dead of winter. While eating outdoors in the cold is undesirable, if it helps to reduce spread of the virus, I'm all for it. It's only twenty minutes, after all. I guess this country is no longer a place where people make sacrifices for the greater good . . .

Please. Unlike 1918, these kids are all vaccinated and boosted!

The COVID vaccination rate for children remains extremely low. In fact, Virginia is currently in the bottom eight states.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:During the Spanish flu pandemic, students moved to outdoor classrooms in the dead of winter. While eating outdoors in the cold is undesirable, if it helps to reduce spread of the virus, I'm all for it. It's only twenty minutes, after all. I guess this country is no longer a place where people make sacrifices for the greater good . . .

Please. Unlike 1918, these kids are all vaccinated and boosted!

And yet they can still transmit COVID to one another. Have you not been paying attention this past month?!?!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OK... we get it. Yes we're in a pandemic in which 3 people residing in DC died yesterday, but this performative nonsense is getting a bit ridiculous.

It's currently 19 degrees out and my kids will once again be eating lunch outside so that they can remove their double masks for 20 minutes without the risk of killing anyone. One of my kids described a scene in which 70+ kids huddle around two heat lamps, "like homeless people living under a bridge," in an attempt to keep warm. The teachers, of course, eat inside.

You're welcome to guess which DC private school I'm talking about.

Would be interested in hearing if others are doing the same.

Take the lesson?

Exactly--I mean, how much can a banana cost? 10 dollars?

[Anonymous]

It has been 19° even in the middle of the night. It’s mostly been in the 40s. And 50s. I’m guessing you think it’s tolerable for your children to ski in the 20s and 30s, but they can’t duck outside and eat lunch? Count your blessings. I’m so sick and tired of private school parents who are able to telecommute whining about the pandemic. You guys have it better than almost anyone in the world in terms of Covid safety. Just shut up. I’m sick of it. I’ve been living since March 2020 and a household with two in person essential workers. Our kids go to public school with basically no testing. No nice outdoor tent. Kids wearing inadequate cloth masks. Just stop whining about how bad the pandemic is for your privileged kids. Why don’t you switch them to public school if you want them to eat indoors? Problem solved and you could save 60,000 a year. Get the 60,000 a year to the scholarship fund!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It has been 19° even in the middle of the night. It’s mostly been in the 40s. And 50s. I’m guessing you think it’s tolerable for your children to ski in the 20s and 30s, but they can’t duck outside and eat lunch? Count your blessings. I’m so sick and tired of private school parents who are able to telecommute whining about the pandemic. You guys have it better than almost anyone in the world in terms of Covid safety. Just shut up. I’m sick of it. I’ve been living since March 2020 and a household with two in person essential workers. Our kids go to public school with basically no testing. No nice outdoor tent. Kids wearing inadequate cloth masks. Just stop whining about how bad the pandemic is for your privileged kids. Why don’t you switch them to public school if you want them to eat indoors? Problem solved and you could save 60,000 a year. Get the 60,000 a year to the scholarship fund!

Typo. It has NOT been nineteen degrees at lunchtime or anything close.

[Anonymous]

It's good for kids to have time outdoors, yes even in the winter. Hats, gloves, coats... they can be outside for 20 minutes in 20 degrees. It doesn't get cold enough in DC for this to be an issue. Child abuse? FFS.