Middle school lunch times (more like brunch)

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:DS is at Hoover and they have a catered snack bar set up in the afternoon for hungry kiddos!

That is great.

Who runs it? How is it funded?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is OP. Our school has breakfast for everybody in the classroom 8:05-8:15. Lunch is at 10:17. He gets home about 4. So, 5.5 hours between chances to eat. Which would be no problem for adults but middle school boys are in the midst of the biggest growth spurts of their lives so they get hungry a lot. Math is last in the day and he doesn't want to be hangry. He'll just have to see how it goes but I like the grape or quiet snack idea.

Just no nuts or anything that leaves crumbs. My classroom had a terrible ant problem last year and it boiled down to one student. When he moved away, building services found a treasure trove of wrappers and crumbs in his locker that adjoined my classroom.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DS is at Hoover and they have a catered snack bar set up in the afternoon for hungry kiddos!

That is great.

Who runs it? How is it funded?

Clearly this is W school satire.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My kids attend one of the 3 largest and most over-crowded middle schools in the County, and the first lunch doesn't start until 11ish (which I still find early, but acceptably so).

+1

Most MSer wake up around 7ish. So, if they have breakfast around 7:15 let's say, lunch at 11am, come home by 3:30 and have a snack, that's eating about every four hours give or take, which IMO is fine.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DS is at Hoover and they have a catered snack bar set up in the afternoon for hungry kiddos!

That is great.

Who runs it? How is it funded?

Clearly this is W school satire.

lol.. yes, I think some folks are new to this forum and don't get that there is a troll who posts stuff like this, mostly for Beverly Farms ES, but happens for other W cluster schools, too.

[Anonymous]

DD is at Somerset and they do serve a nice brunch of Friday's. Eggs, waffles, lox, fruit, muffins - its great, and all provided and paid for by parents. A little something extra we do for our children.

[Anonymous]

My MS'er has a bus at 6:45, wakes a little before 6, so 11 lunch not so bad

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:That's ridiculous. WTF? My fifth grader is having lunch at 1pm.

Result of school overcrowding, I guess and they can't accommodate all the lunch periods.

Is 1 really that bad? What are the appropriate lunch hours especially since ES starts pretty late?

Can you go from 8:30am until 1pm without eating? I think it's tough. My kids eat a decent breakfast, but that is still a long time. We need to leave the house by 9am to get to school, so can't do breakfast much later than 8:30.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:That's ridiculous. WTF? My fifth grader is having lunch at 1pm.

Result of school overcrowding, I guess and they can't accommodate all the lunch periods.

Is 1 really that bad? What are the appropriate lunch hours especially since ES starts pretty late?

Can you go from 8:30am until 1pm without eating? I think it's tough. My kids eat a decent breakfast, but that is still a long time. We need to leave the house by 9am to get to school, so can't do breakfast much later than 8:30.

Almost certainly the teachers will allow for a mid-morning snack.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:That's ridiculous. WTF? My fifth grader is having lunch at 1pm.

Result of school overcrowding, I guess and they can't accommodate all the lunch periods.

Is 1 really that bad? What are the appropriate lunch hours especially since ES starts pretty late?

Can you go from 8:30am until 1pm without eating? I think it's tough. My kids eat a decent breakfast, but that is still a long time. We need to leave the house by 9am to get to school, so can't do breakfast much later than 8:30.

You can't go 4.5 hours without eating?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:That's ridiculous. WTF? My fifth grader is having lunch at 1pm.

Result of school overcrowding, I guess and they can't accommodate all the lunch periods.

Is 1 really that bad? What are the appropriate lunch hours especially since ES starts pretty late?

Can you go from 8:30am until 1pm without eating? I think it's tough. My kids eat a decent breakfast, but that is still a long time. We need to leave the house by 9am to get to school, so can't do breakfast much later than 8:30.

You can't go 4.5 hours without eating?

Maybe I can, but we're talking about 7 year olds. Seems like a long time. YMMV

[Anonymous]

Go take private school. Ours has breakfast, 15min snack break at 10:15am, and 1pm lunch all included intuition. The food is fantastic, they kids are never hungry and I don't have to feed them anything but dinner.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Go take private school. Ours has breakfast, 15min snack break at 10:15am, and 1pm lunch all included intuition. The food is fantastic, they kids are never hungry and I don't have to feed them anything but dinner.

Our private scheduled snack time, but we provided the food. Most privates don't include meals in tuition. We did look at one in Atlanta that served two meals a day.

[Anonymous]

Must be nice to have 60K to go to Landon, 22:10.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:That's ridiculous. WTF? My fifth grader is having lunch at 1pm.

Result of school overcrowding, I guess and they can't accommodate all the lunch periods.

Is 1 really that bad? What are the appropriate lunch hours especially since ES starts pretty late?

Can you go from 8:30am until 1pm without eating? I think it's tough. My kids eat a decent breakfast, but that is still a long time. We need to leave the house by 9am to get to school, so can't do breakfast much later than 8:30.

You can't go 4.5 hours without eating?

Maybe I can, but we're talking about 7 year olds. Seems like a long time. YMMV

No OP is asking about middle schoolers not second graders.