Middle school lunch time is 10:17 am?!

[Anonymous]

My second grader's lunch is at 10:30am.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I had lunch at my hs at 10:40 am. It did feel early, but kids get out of school before COB hours so they can have a snack after school. My hs had 2000 students—like a pp pointed out, this happens when you have to get that many students through lunch.

Uh, build more schools so you don't have to do this?

What's wrong with society that people accept this crap. This wouldn't fly in Finland, a country with the best education in the world. The US is close to the bottom of OECD nations and people don't even care.

Take it up with voters. Montgomery County is so corrupt and mismanaged. Our politicians give away everything to developers who have over-developed the county. Plus there is a push for urbanization by our local political leaders. Yet voters keep voting for more of the same.

The school system is completely dysfunctional and the BOE doesn’t care about our kids at all.

So our schools are severely overcrowded and our kids suffer.

Take off the tinfoil hat.

[Anonymous]

I teach kindergarten and we have breakfast at 8am and lunch at 10am!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We’ll be headed to Eastern MS too. I recall one of the administrators telling us they serve “supper” at 3pm when school lets out for the kids staying for after school activities.

Yes. It’s free to all.

[Anonymous]

Ugh, my kid had that in 4th grade. In middle school, at least it's kind of near the middle of their day - my now 8th grader starts at 7:30 and ends at 2:30, so 10:30 is 3 hours into a 7-hour day (hislunch this year is at 11, which is fine). In 4th, he started at 9:30, had lunch an hour later, and then didn't get home on the bus until 5. Thankfully their teacher let them all have a snack in the afternoon.

It's all about scheduling way overcrowded schools through a small lunchroom. Even with this crazy schedule, my kids insist on taking lunch purely because the lunch line is so long that they wouldn't get food until the lunch break was just about over. They need to increase the lunch line throughput in order to consolidate lunch times.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Probably, they have to get 1500-2000 students through lunch.

Which middle school has 2000 kids?!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If I'm reading my 6th grader's schedule correctly, she has lunch at 10:17 am - is that right?! That seems absurdly early to me. Eastern MS, she has "advisory" listed for 3rd period - https://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/siteassets/schools/middle-schools/a-f/easternms/homepage/bell-schedule---9_1_22.2.pdf

Have you voted differently or protested the ridiculously large student population size in our schools? If not, enjoy your breakfast time lunch. You can call it brunch.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I had lunch at my hs at 10:40 am. It did feel early, but kids get out of school before COB hours so they can have a snack after school. My hs had 2000 students—like a pp pointed out, this happens when you have to get that many students through lunch.

Uh, build more schools so you don't have to do this?

What's wrong with society that people accept this crap. This wouldn't fly in Finland, a country with the best education in the world. The US is close to the bottom of OECD nations and people don't even care.

Take it up with voters. Montgomery County is so corrupt and mismanaged. Our politicians give away everything to developers who have over-developed the county. Plus there is a push for urbanization by our local political leaders. Yet voters keep voting for more of the same.

The school system is completely dysfunctional and the BOE doesn’t care about our kids at all.

So our schools are severely overcrowded and our kids suffer.

Take off the tinfoil hat.

News blackout? See recent media on electric school bus cost.

[Anonymous]

Some middle schoolers catch the bus at 6:30 so breakfast at 6 and then they are starving by 10:30.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Some middle schoolers catch the bus at 6:30 so breakfast at 6 and then they are starving by 10:30.

That’s what happens with cereals and processed carbs, yes

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I had lunch at my hs at 10:40 am. It did feel early, but kids get out of school before COB hours so they can have a snack after school. My hs had 2000 students—like a pp pointed out, this happens when you have to get that many students through lunch.

Uh, build more schools so you don't have to do this?

What's wrong with society that people accept this crap. This wouldn't fly in Finland, a country with the best education in the world. The US is close to the bottom of OECD nations and people don't even care.

Take it up with voters. Montgomery County is so corrupt and mismanaged. Our politicians give away everything to developers who have over-developed the county. Plus there is a push for urbanization by our local political leaders. Yet voters keep voting for more of the same.

The school system is completely dysfunctional and the BOE doesn’t care about our kids at all.

So our schools are severely overcrowded and our kids suffer.

Take off the tinfoil hat.

News blackout? See recent media on electric school bus cost.

And upzonig everywhere.

Don’t forget the rampant over-development. High density housing on every available plot of land. Giveaways to developers, who are making boat loads of money at the expense of the middle class families.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If I'm reading my 6th grader's schedule correctly, she has lunch at 10:17 am - is that right?! That seems absurdly early to me. Eastern MS, she has "advisory" listed for 3rd period - https://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/siteassets/schools/middle-schools/a-f/easternms/homepage/bell-schedule---9_1_22.2.pdf

Tale as old as time. Your 6th grader will survive like we all did. Eat light breakfast. Pack bigger lunch with snack for after school
It's going to be ok!

[Anonymous]

Eastern parent here. My daughter had the 10:17 lunch last year and she survived. Kids can bring snacks and eat at some point later in the day.

[Anonymous]

Our kindergarten lunch is at 1pm…..

[Anonymous]

If posters could share schools as well, that would be very appreciated. Thanks!