Elementary school lunch times

[Anonymous]

I guess, as adults, we should be so grateful to have an hour for lunch at work when our kids only get half of that, if even that. The rush of the lunch is obviously due to lack of space in the cafeteria. It's definitely not because the kids are rushing back to any pressing academic work. I guess it doesn't matter. It's easier to come up with reasons to justify this whole lunch/school thing since everyone's doing it. Just keep drinkin' the Kool Aid.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I guess, as adults, we should be so grateful to have an hour for lunch at work when our kids only get half of that, if even that.

neither here nor there, but at my fed agency, we are only permitted 1/2 hour for lunch (and were told by HR that the two 15 minute breaks during the day that everyone talks about were a myth.)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:At our school, our class has lunch at 12:28. We leave the classroom at 12:25 so we have a few minutes for the kids to wash their hands/use the bathroom. They have 30 mins to eat. If the parents choose to not send in a lunch, the kids will be waiting in line for a while. But that's their choice. I am also appalled at the waste of food too but I think 30 mins is enough time to eat if you don't spend 10 mins of it waiting in line. The cafeteria food is mostly junk BTW. I've had the last lunch of the day at 1:08 and once I had the earliest at 11:18 or something like that.

But for kids on free/reduced lunch, bringing lunch really isn't a choice. So they are forced to wait in line and gulp down their lunch. They're the ones who probably need it the most. What I have found though is that after the first couple of weeks, kids get pretty good at eating quickly.

[Anonymous]

Hahahah... Very funny. Yes, I agree. They kids do become very proficient at quickly eating their food. What great social and dietary skills our kids are learning at such a young age. USA Today has a great article on this very issue.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/wellness/story/2011/08/Students-feel-rushed-at-school-lunch/50027612/1