TT trying to eliminate open lunch

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The safety concern is such a joke. My kids go to WJ.
No one checks their ID going into the school. If you hold a piece of paper shaped like an ID or a credit card up, they let you in.
You can easily jump over the fence to get in/out of campus.
If they cared about safety, there are tons of things they could do. The kids that want to fight are going to do that on campus or just leave campus and do it—they don’t care if it’s open lunch or closed lunch.

And I am very doubtful that the majority of businesses oppose getting these kids business. If they don’t want it, they could just decline to admit HS students. Has anyone polled the businesses at G Square, Wildwood and RTC, for instance? Their revenue will really drop.

My kid writes for the school newspaper and has actually personally interviewed local business owners near the school and asked them about students coming in during lunch. The response was appreciative of the business and favorable. Just saying.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The safety concern is such a joke. My kids go to WJ.
No one checks their ID going into the school. If you hold a piece of paper shaped like an ID or a credit card up, they let you in.
You can easily jump over the fence to get in/out of campus.
If they cared about safety, there are tons of things they could do. The kids that want to fight are going to do that on campus or just leave campus and do it—they don’t care if it’s open lunch or closed lunch.

And I am very doubtful that the majority of businesses oppose getting these kids business. If they don’t want it, they could just decline to admit HS students. Has anyone polled the businesses at G Square, Wildwood and RTC, for instance? Their revenue will really drop.

My kid writes for the school newspaper and has actually personally interviewed local business owners near the school and asked them about students coming in during lunch. The response was appreciative of the business and favorable. Just saying.

I would think so. While HS kids could be naughty and nasty from time to time, they contribute non-trivial percentage of revenue to local small business. I can't imagine any of these business owners would welcome closed lunch.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The safety concern is such a joke. My kids go to WJ.
No one checks their ID going into the school. If you hold a piece of paper shaped like an ID or a credit card up, they let you in.
You can easily jump over the fence to get in/out of campus.
If they cared about safety, there are tons of things they could do. The kids that want to fight are going to do that on campus or just leave campus and do it—they don’t care if it’s open lunch or closed lunch.

And I am very doubtful that the majority of businesses oppose getting these kids business. If they don’t want it, they could just decline to admit HS students. Has anyone polled the businesses at G Square, Wildwood and RTC, for instance? Their revenue will really drop.

My kid writes for the school newspaper and has actually personally interviewed local business owners near the school and asked them about students coming in during lunch. The response was appreciative of the business and favorable. Just saying.

PP was referencing safety issues, not local business remarks.

[Anonymous]

Brenda Wolff is so out of touch it’s not even funny. She said in the meeting that she thinks parents think their kids are in school and are surprised to learn they may be out for open lunch. Brenda, it’s not 1985. The kids all have phones and the parents all have gps trackers for them (findmy, Life360, etc). They text us all day long asking if we will pay for their chipotle, and the school robocalls and emails us if they are absent from a class. She’s obviously not interacted with any actual students or parents in decades.

[Anonymous]

I often see WJ kids crossing back and forth old georgetown rd, while looking at phones, during lunchtime.

Super. safe.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Brenda Wolff is so out of touch it’s not even funny. She said in the meeting that she thinks parents think their kids are in school and are surprised to learn they may be out for open lunch. Brenda, it’s not 1985. The kids all have phones and the parents all have gps trackers for them (findmy, Life360, etc). They text us all day long asking if we will pay for their chipotle, and the school robocalls and emails us if they are absent from a class. She’s obviously not interacted with any actual students or parents in decades.

I love this post so much. Brenda truly is clueless.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I often see WJ kids crossing back and forth old georgetown rd, while looking at phones, during lunchtime.

Super. safe.

I guess we should eliminate walk zones and provide bus service for all students just in case high schoolers can’t be trusted to cross streets at times other than lunch then.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Brenda Wolff is so out of touch it’s not even funny. She said in the meeting that she thinks parents think their kids are in school and are surprised to learn they may be out for open lunch. Brenda, it’s not 1985. The kids all have phones and the parents all have gps trackers for them (findmy, Life360, etc). They text us all day long asking if we will pay for their chipotle, and the school robocalls and emails us if they are absent from a class. She’s obviously not interacted with any actual students or parents in decades.

Actually, she's not wrong. Parents DO think schools with Closed Lunch policies are in fact keeping their kids in the school building.

But because these policies lack definition, enforcement and guardrails, many kids hitch rides with friends without their parents knowing to get lunch off-campus without their knowledge.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I often see WJ kids crossing back and forth old georgetown rd, while looking at phones, during lunchtime.

Super. safe.

I guess we should eliminate walk zones and provide bus service for all students just in case high schoolers can’t be trusted to cross streets at times other than lunch then.

That would be great. If I let mine walk they’d go across several dangerous roads where kids have been hit or killed.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Brenda Wolff is so out of touch it’s not even funny. She said in the meeting that she thinks parents think their kids are in school and are surprised to learn they may be out for open lunch. Brenda, it’s not 1985. The kids all have phones and the parents all have gps trackers for them (findmy, Life360, etc). They text us all day long asking if we will pay for their chipotle, and the school robocalls and emails us if they are absent from a class. She’s obviously not interacted with any actual students or parents in decades.

Actually, she's not wrong. Parents DO think schools with Closed Lunch policies are in fact keeping their kids in the school building.

But because these policies lack definition, enforcement and guardrails, many kids hitch rides with friends without their parents knowing to get lunch off-campus without their knowledge.

So the solution is for everyone to have closed lunch that schools won’t enforce?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Brenda Wolff is so out of touch it’s not even funny. She said in the meeting that she thinks parents think their kids are in school and are surprised to learn they may be out for open lunch. Brenda, it’s not 1985. The kids all have phones and the parents all have gps trackers for them (findmy, Life360, etc). They text us all day long asking if we will pay for their chipotle, and the school robocalls and emails us if they are absent from a class. She’s obviously not interacted with any actual students or parents in decades.

Actually, she's not wrong. Parents DO think schools with Closed Lunch policies are in fact keeping their kids in the school building.

But because these policies lack definition, enforcement and guardrails, many kids hitch rides with friends without their parents knowing to get lunch off-campus without their knowledge.

So the solution is for everyone to have closed lunch that schools won’t enforce?

I'm not sure what the solution is, but the policy definitely needs tightening up, given these identified loopholes.

[Anonymous]

All of you getting mad that your kids will have to eat while sitting on the floor. The average high school boy I've met will eat food off of the floor.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If they are going to ban it, what will they offer to Walter Johnson kids? Just stay hungry??

Breaking news: local WJ parent forgets that FARMS students exist

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Brenda is not letting up. She's moving the Open Lunch policy discussion to the full board, against Julie's objections.

The SMOB is the one to second, which is odd, since I imagine there's a meaningful portion of the student body that wants to keep the Open Lunch policy.

Why didn't they have Natalie Zimmerman second?

This year’s SMOB has been terrible.

You're posting about a child, weirdo

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The safety concern is such a joke. My kids go to WJ.
No one checks their ID going into the school. If you hold a piece of paper shaped like an ID or a credit card up, they let you in.
You can easily jump over the fence to get in/out of campus.
If they cared about safety, there are tons of things they could do. The kids that want to fight are going to do that on campus or just leave campus and do it—they don’t care if it’s open lunch or closed lunch.

And I am very doubtful that the majority of businesses oppose getting these kids business. If they don’t want it, they could just decline to admit HS students. Has anyone polled the businesses at G Square, Wildwood and RTC, for instance? Their revenue will really drop.

My kid writes for the school newspaper and has actually personally interviewed local business owners near the school and asked them about students coming in during lunch. The response was appreciative of the business and favorable. Just saying.

You think a business owner is going to speak up for a school newspaper... nope.