lunch at 10:00 am for elementary school kid?!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:That is so not acceptable.
Smh...

Well, good luck homeschooling!

[Anonymous]

10:00 was 30 minutes before DS's snack time when she was in K. Lunch was at 1:10. She survived.

Not everyone can eat at exactly noon.

[Anonymous]

One year my kid's school started at 9:10, lunch at 10:15, out at 3:55 and bus got home at 4:40.

The teachers were great about allowing the kids to snack as needed throughout the afternoon.

My kid ate a light snack for breakfast, had brunch at 10:15, and ate a huge lunch type snack at lunch time.

Days with afterschool activities were tough. It must have been harder for sac kids.
Craziness. I felt sorry for the teachers too as they were in the same boat.

[Anonymous]

SMH.

I went to school in another country, and a lot of the problems I see here regarding schedules, did not exist there.

First of all, kids stayed in their assigned classroom for all periods (except recess, PE, specials like Art and Music), and they had the same schedule. Teachers went to different classrooms at the end of periods, instead of students rushing off to different classrooms after every period.

Secondly, only kids who were buying lunch went to the cafeteria. Rest ate their lunch at their desks or out in the play ground. There was no ridiculous schedule of starting lunch at 10 am, for a full day of school.

[Anonymous]

I hope your kids like peanut butter.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:SMH.

I went to school in another country, and a lot of the problems I see here regarding schedules, did not exist there.

First of all, kids stayed in their assigned classroom for all periods (except recess, PE, specials like Art and Music), and they had the same schedule. Teachers went to different classrooms at the end of periods, instead of students rushing off to different classrooms after every period.

Secondly, only kids who were buying lunch went to the cafeteria. Rest ate their lunch at their desks or out in the play ground. There was no ridiculous schedule of starting lunch at 10 am, for a full day of school.

I went to school overseas and in our school, teachers went to different classes instead of rushing children to various classes except for PE, art and music. Seemed to work very smoothly.

[Anonymous]

Last year, DC's class had lunch at 10:20. She ate breakfast at home around 8 and was not hungry at 10:20. She would buy lunch but then throw most of it out. On days I packed her lunch, most of it would come back home untouched. When I asked her why she didn't eat her food during the day because she told she was hungry around 1 pm., she said there wasn't an opportunity to eat other than a quick snack in the afternoon. Also DC doesn't like to be rushed at mealtime. This was also a problem. Thank goodness, SACC serves snacks and they would let her back a second helping of snack if she wanted.

[Anonymous]

I don't understand why they can only use the playground once a week? This all sounds insane to me. What school is this?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:10:00 was 30 minutes before DS's snack time when she was in K. Lunch was at 1:10. She survived.

Not everyone can eat at exactly noon.

I don't think OP was complaining it wasn't exactly noon. It's 2 hours before noon, big difference.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:SMH.

I went to school in another country, and a lot of the problems I see here regarding schedules, did not exist there.

First of all, kids stayed in their assigned classroom for all periods (except recess, PE, specials like Art and Music), and they had the same schedule. Teachers went to different classrooms at the end of periods, instead of students rushing off to different classrooms after every period.

Secondly, only kids who were buying lunch went to the cafeteria. Rest ate their lunch at their desks or out in the play ground. There was no ridiculous schedule of starting lunch at 10 am, for a full day of school.

I think the problem with the in class lunch is then teacher's don't get any break. Yes, they could eat lunch at their desks while they watched the kids, but I don't think that's fair. It would be expensive to hire someone to watch each classroom during lunch.

[Anonymous]

My son had the first lunch at 10:00 last year in kindergarten. It actually wasn't so bad.

This year, he is in first grade and complained lunch was so late. Not sure what time it is but certainly not 10.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We found that my young elementary school aged child will have lunch at 10:00. Anyone else in this boat? What is a strategy that works? Kid will stay on in SACC before and after school...

I find this so unfortunate. I spoke once to a mom who's son had 10am lunch. The teacher recommended that they eat a snack during lunch time and she always gave them extra time during snack because she encouraged parent's to send a large peanut free snack like a sandwich or a thermos with pasta. It still sucks, I'm sorry.