Parents are ordering from DoorDash to deliver their MSer's lunch

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My DC's high school does not allow delivery on campus. The old-fashioned pizza delivery guy was one thing, as he was at least someone's employee. With DoorDash, you now have strangers employed by no one showing up at your kid's school. This stuff should be banned.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My DC's high school does not allow delivery on campus. The old-fashioned pizza delivery guy was one thing, as he was at least someone's employee. With DoorDash, you now have strangers employed by no one showing up at your kid's school. This stuff should be banned.

Weird people - teacher, students, volunteers, shooters - show up at the school anyways. As long as the food is being delivered to the school office, there is not a problem. Except, apparently, the office does not want to be bothered and/or disturb the class.

I think it is a great idea (to order food from outside), but the logistics need to be worked out. I am not a person who used DoorDash, but I have no problems if others do.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My DC's high school does not allow delivery on campus. The old-fashioned pizza delivery guy was one thing, as he was at least someone's employee. With DoorDash, you now have strangers employed by no one showing up at your kid's school. This stuff should be banned.

+1 that was my thought, too. Imagine if all the parents of the 1300 students had lunch delivered. Even if there are three lunch periods, that's about 430 or so deliveries. A parent might think it's fine because it's just one or two, but per the OP, it's not just *you*. It's a growing issue. So stop.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My DC's high school does not allow delivery on campus. The old-fashioned pizza delivery guy was one thing, as he was at least someone's employee. With DoorDash, you now have strangers employed by no one showing up at your kid's school. This stuff should be banned.

Weird people - teacher, students, volunteers, shooters - show up at the school anyways. As long as the food is being delivered to the school office, there is not a problem. Except, apparently, the office does not want to be bothered and/or disturb the class.

I think it is a great idea (to order food from outside), but the logistics need to be worked out. I am not a person who used DoorDash, but I have no problems if others do.

Teachers are known to the staff. Students are kids. Parent volunteers - there are one or two in MS, certainly not 10+.

Shooters - that's why they don't want strangers delivering food. They are strangers.

You have no problems if others do it because you are not the one who has to manage AND do your regular job at the school. This is beyond selfish.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My DC's high school does not allow delivery on campus. The old-fashioned pizza delivery guy was one thing, as he was at least someone's employee. With DoorDash, you now have strangers employed by no one showing up at your kid's school. This stuff should be banned.

Weird people - teacher, students, volunteers, shooters - show up at the school anyways. As long as the food is being delivered to the school office, there is not a problem. Except, apparently, the office does not want to be bothered and/or disturb the class.

I think it is a great idea (to order food from outside), but the logistics need to be worked out. I am not a person who used DoorDash, but I have no problems if others do.

I would rather the school staff and admin be able to do their jobs w/o having to deal with some cosseted kid’s lunch. Lunch logistics should be handled at home by the student and you, the parent. Unless, of course, you can’t be bothered?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My DC's high school does not allow delivery on campus. The old-fashioned pizza delivery guy was one thing, as he was at least someone's employee. With DoorDash, you now have strangers employed by no one showing up at your kid's school. This stuff should be banned.

Weird people - teacher, students, volunteers, shooters - show up at the school anyways. As long as the food is being delivered to the school office, there is not a problem. Except, apparently, the office does not want to be bothered and/or disturb the class.

I think it is a great idea (to order food from outside), but the logistics need to be worked out. I am not a person who used DoorDash, but I have no problems if others do.

Teachers are known to the staff. Students are kids. Parent volunteers - there are one or two in MS, certainly not 10+.

Shooters - that's why they don't want strangers delivering food. They are strangers.

You have no problems if others do it because you are not the one who has to manage AND do your regular job at the school. This is beyond selfish.

+100

[Anonymous]

I do not think it should be allowed unless it is a HS with open lunch and the delivery is outside the school (mostly because that would be impossible to monitor). Otherwise, the school sells food or bring something with you, I do not want one second of staff time used so your kid can have more alternatives than that. Next week I will probably be reading a post..my kids lunch was apparently accepted by another kid. Door Dash will not give me a refund. Why is the school not supervising?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Maybe if the school lunches weren’t so unhealthy. Our pediatrician said never, even to the pizza once a week.

Oh give me a freaking break.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My DC's high school does not allow delivery on campus. The old-fashioned pizza delivery guy was one thing, as he was at least someone's employee. With DoorDash, you now have strangers employed by no one showing up at your kid's school. This stuff should be banned.

Weird people - teacher, students, volunteers, shooters - show up at the school anyways. As long as the food is being delivered to the school office, there is not a problem. Except, apparently, the office does not want to be bothered and/or disturb the class.

I think it is a great idea (to order food from outside), but the logistics need to be worked out. I am not a person who used DoorDash, but I have no problems if others do.

I would rather the school staff and admin be able to do their jobs w/o having to deal with some cosseted kid’s lunch. Lunch logistics should be handled at home by the student and you, the parent. Unless, of course, you can’t be bothered?

Exactly. This is entitlement at it's finest. You either make a lunch at home or you eat something at the cafeteria. OR you go get your crappy fast food the night before or in the morning and brown bag it into school.

Door Dash is a show up and is completely unnecessary.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Good grief. Do they come wipe their kids’ arses for them, too? How spoiled and entitled do we want our kids to be???

I made my own lunch in middle school. It's not that hard to make a sandwich is it?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:It’s hardly a new thing. Parents used to have pizza and Chinese delivered when I was in school in the 1980s. I’ve ordered lunches for my kids when they forgot them at home or on the bus.

It’s not considerate to do just so your child can have a hot fast food meal as a treat, but not everyone can personally run over to their child’s school to drop off a meal. And some kids don’t even have lunch accounts. My oldest was a strict vegetarian.

It's new to me. I guess I went to a poor school where this kind of thing didn't happen.

According to the school, what you are doing is placing a burden on the admin staff. Open a lunch account for your kid. They can get an apple, milk, veggies -- my kids have had to eat some of the school lunches a few times. You can do open the account online, and it will save you and the admin staff the hassle.

I went to a middle-class school in the 80s, and no way would parents have sent pizza or Chinese for their kids lunch. Seniors were allowed to leave campus for lunch, but I can’t imagine anyone sending in lunch to the school. That would have been crazy presumptuous. If lunch was forgotten, you either bought school lunch or went hungry. You’d survive either way.

Ditto, and I went to a posh private school in the 90s.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I do not think it should be allowed unless it is a HS with open lunch and the delivery is outside the school (mostly because that would be impossible to monitor). Otherwise, the school sells food or bring something with you, I do not want one second of staff time used so your kid can have more alternatives than that. Next week I will probably be reading a post..my kids lunch was apparently accepted by another kid. Door Dash will not give me a refund. Why is the school not supervising?

I'm waiting for the announcement that all deliveries by these kinds of services will be denied. This is not your home or even *your* place of business.

[Anonymous]

Another reason cell phones should be banned in middle school.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:our school is right by panera so sometimes the older kids will go there for lunch instead why is this even a problem they have grilled cheese and panera and as the C lunch so give it up

This isn’t about kids leaving the school for lunch. This is about parents ordering a lunch to be delivered to a student at middle school. Two totally different things. One is normal. The other is obnoxious.

+1 It's in the title and OP. No MS has open campus for lunch. This isn't about HSers.

My junior high had open campus for lunch.

That was before the days of Stranger Danger, of course.

My friends who lived close to my Jr high walked home for lunch. I think they had to have their parents sign something at the beginning of the year, and I think I needed a note to go with my friends, but I did a couple of times. 1986-1989 (we had 9th grade at the junior high).

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My DC's high school does not allow delivery on campus. The old-fashioned pizza delivery guy was one thing, as he was at least someone's employee. With DoorDash, you now have strangers employed by no one showing up at your kid's school. This stuff should be banned.

Weird people - teacher, students, volunteers, shooters - show up at the school anyways. As long as the food is being delivered to the school office, there is not a problem. Except, apparently, the office does not want to be bothered and/or disturb the class.

I think it is a great idea (to order food from outside), but the logistics need to be worked out. I am not a person who used DoorDash, but I have no problems if others do.

Teachers are known to the staff. Students are kids. Parent volunteers - there are one or two in MS, certainly not 10+.

Shooters - that's why they don't want strangers delivering food. They are strangers.

You have no problems if others do it because you are not the one who has to manage AND do your regular job at the school. This is beyond selfish.

+100

Most school shooters have been disgruntled students. So they are known to the school.

If the school cannot handle doordash then they cannot handle even a parent coming in with a forgotten lunch box. It sounds like the school front office needs to hire more efficient people. If doorDash is what kids are using then they need to handle that and have a system in place. Sounds like a bunch of incompetent administrators who cannot put a process in place.