What do kids do about really late lunch?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I dont remember ever needing a snack, or honestly even a drink of water between meals as a high-schooler in the 90s. Is this something I've repressed or forgotten? Not being snarky, because as a parent i now have this same question "how will they survive without a snack!?" But is this a new thing, or do other parents remember being hungry growing up?

No and I was super skinny. My super skinny boys eat snacks between classes and have a second lunch after school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If your kid's teachers don't let them have a snack to get them through until lunch then you ought to complain to admin and get other parents to also complain. There's no reason kids shouldn't have a snack. I guarantee you teachers and principals have snacks when they want to.

At the very least for a HS kid I would encourage them to put some snacks in their backpack, like half a sandwich, a piece of fruit, etc., and eat it whenever they have a few minutes. If anyone gives them any crap about this start the complaining.

It's probably admin telling them no snacks are allowed. Admin is almost always the problem, and not the solution.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I dont remember ever needing a snack, or honestly even a drink of water between meals as a high-schooler in the 90s. Is this something I've repressed or forgotten? Not being snarky, because as a parent i now have this same question "how will they survive without a snack!?" But is this a new thing, or do other parents remember being hungry growing up?

Honestly, I had a block schedule where I had lunch 4 days a week at 1:00 and 1 day a week at 11:30. The earlier lunch was harder, because I wasn't hungry yet, but eating so early meant I would be starving by the end of the day.

Fwiw, my kindergartener has lunch at 12:45 and they have a mid-morning snack. I'm sure OP's kid can have a granola bar or something during a passing period if he's hungry.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If your kid's teachers don't let them have a snack to get them through until lunch then you ought to complain to admin and get other parents to also complain. There's no reason kids shouldn't have a snack. I guarantee you teachers and principals have snacks when they want to.

At the very least for a HS kid I would encourage them to put some snacks in their backpack, like half a sandwich, a piece of fruit, etc., and eat it whenever they have a few minutes. If anyone gives them any crap about this start the complaining.

It's probably admin telling them no snacks are allowed. Admin is almost always the problem, and not the solution.

Admin has to be part of the solution. I worked at an elementary school for many years and it often wasn't until parents, and I mean more than one, complained about a situation that something would finally get done about it. Typically staff complaining had almost no effect, but parents did. So don't just assume it's pointless to go to admin, and I mean not just once if necessary. If parental concerns are ignored by admin at your child's school then I'd say it's time to find a different school.

[Anonymous]

I taught K--and it was half days then. I always put out graham crackers and the kids were free to help themselves. I did not go through a lot of graham crackers. I think if it had been all day K with a late or very early lunch, we would have gone through a lot more.

I did not set a snack time, but the crackers were there if they were hungry.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If your kid's teachers don't let them have a snack to get them through until lunch then you ought to complain to admin and get other parents to also complain. There's no reason kids shouldn't have a snack. I guarantee you teachers and principals have snacks when they want to.

At the very least for a HS kid I would encourage them to put some snacks in their backpack, like half a sandwich, a piece of fruit, etc., and eat it whenever they have a few minutes. If anyone gives them any crap about this start the complaining.

It's probably admin telling them no snacks are allowed. Admin is almost always the problem, and not the solution.

Admin has to be part of the solution. I worked at an elementary school for many years and it often wasn't until parents, and I mean more than one, complained about a situation that something would finally get done about it. Typically staff complaining had almost no effect, but parents did. So don't just assume it's pointless to go to admin, and I mean not just once if necessary. If parental concerns are ignored by admin at your child's school then I'd say it's time to find a different school.

One can't just "find a different school." It's not like shoe shopping. You'd have to sell your house. And since admin can change at any moment, there is no guarantee you'd find something better.

And I am also a former teacher, and used to think it was true that parents had power. Then I became a parent, and learned that parents don't have any more power than teachers. Admins do what they want, and are accountable to no one.