Lunchtime at 10:30. Seriously?

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Ask your Principal to allow kindergartners to eat lunch in their classrooms!

This is what our Principal did after a disastrous year of Kindergartners eating lunch at 10:30 in the cafeteria because of overcrowding (5th graders ate lunch at 1:30).

Everyone was much happier with a more normal lunch time. Eating in classrooms isn't a bad thing at all.

Most schools do not have the staffing to have supervision in each classroom at lunch time.

Honestly this was a problem that we had during COVID when students were still eating in the classroom. There aren't necessarily half a dozen people around the school that have nothing to do for either that 30 minutes or longer if they're supporting multiple lunches.

Then hire more people. No child should have to eat lunch at 10:30. Only in the US where people don't understand meals and food is this a problem.

OP here and agree. Meals are supposed to be nourishing at the right time, between 11:45-1.

Sure, but you can't fit (in some cases) 900-1,000 students into an undersized cafeteria in half hour blocks between 11:45 and 1:00.

The school can make it happen if there’s willingness and pressure from families.

Nope cannot happen.

Yup we the people can make it happen.

Go for it. I’d love to see what you come up with.

[Anonymous]

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Ask your Principal to allow kindergartners to eat lunch in their classrooms!

This is what our Principal did after a disastrous year of Kindergartners eating lunch at 10:30 in the cafeteria because of overcrowding (5th graders ate lunch at 1:30).

Everyone was much happier with a more normal lunch time. Eating in classrooms isn't a bad thing at all.

Most schools do not have the staffing to have supervision in each classroom at lunch time.

Honestly this was a problem that we had during COVID when students were still eating in the classroom. There aren't necessarily half a dozen people around the school that have nothing to do for either that 30 minutes or longer if they're supporting multiple lunches.

This should not be an issue for the next few years. Principals are being given ESSR III funds with discretion to hire hourly people.

FYI, the pay for a "cafeteria hostess" is $11.00 per hour. I overheard our office staff complaining that they'd gotten some inquiries but no one was willing to do it for that amount, especially now with the Delta variant.

The fast food places have figured it out. What do they know that FCPS can't figure out?

Do they pay more than $11? Maybe it’s more hours?

Exactly, the cafeteria workers only work about 4 hours a day.

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Ask your Principal to allow kindergartners to eat lunch in their classrooms!

This is what our Principal did after a disastrous year of Kindergartners eating lunch at 10:30 in the cafeteria because of overcrowding (5th graders ate lunch at 1:30).

Everyone was much happier with a more normal lunch time. Eating in classrooms isn't a bad thing at all.

Most schools do not have the staffing to have supervision in each classroom at lunch time.

Honestly this was a problem that we had during COVID when students were still eating in the classroom. There aren't necessarily half a dozen people around the school that have nothing to do for either that 30 minutes or longer if they're supporting multiple lunches.

Then hire more people. No child should have to eat lunch at 10:30. Only in the US where people don't understand meals and food is this a problem.

OP here and agree. Meals are supposed to be nourishing at the right time, between 11:45-1.

Sure, but you can't fit (in some cases) 900-1,000 students into an undersized cafeteria in half hour blocks between 11:45 and 1:00.

The school can make it happen if there’s willingness and pressure from families.

Nope cannot happen.

Yup we the people can make it happen.

Go for it. I’d love to see what you come up with.

These parents are a real "treat," they can figure out how to feed a 1000 kids within 75 minutes - with all the kids getting a 30 minute lunch and the lunch lines not being backed up for miles and continuously stocked with hot food. Please, let's hear it. I'll give you a head start that's about 40 classes.

[Anonymous]

My kid had lunch at 9:45 last year. He was fine. He even grew 4 inches so it didn’t stunt him. I can only hope he gets something as late as 10:30 this year.

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Ask your Principal to allow kindergartners to eat lunch in their classrooms!

This is what our Principal did after a disastrous year of Kindergartners eating lunch at 10:30 in the cafeteria because of overcrowding (5th graders ate lunch at 1:30).

Everyone was much happier with a more normal lunch time. Eating in classrooms isn't a bad thing at all.

Most schools do not have the staffing to have supervision in each classroom at lunch time.

Honestly this was a problem that we had during COVID when students were still eating in the classroom. There aren't necessarily half a dozen people around the school that have nothing to do for either that 30 minutes or longer if they're supporting multiple lunches.

Serious question—at my elementary school there was no cafeteria and all kids ate lunch in their classroom. The teacher was in there with us usually also eating their lunch. Why can’t the same thing happen here?

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Ask your Principal to allow kindergartners to eat lunch in their classrooms!

This is what our Principal did after a disastrous year of Kindergartners eating lunch at 10:30 in the cafeteria because of overcrowding (5th graders ate lunch at 1:30).

Everyone was much happier with a more normal lunch time. Eating in classrooms isn't a bad thing at all.

Most schools do not have the staffing to have supervision in each classroom at lunch time.

Honestly this was a problem that we had during COVID when students were still eating in the classroom. There aren't necessarily half a dozen people around the school that have nothing to do for either that 30 minutes or longer if they're supporting multiple lunches.

Serious question—at my elementary school there was no cafeteria and all kids ate lunch in their classroom. The teacher was in there with us usually also eating their lunch. Why can’t the same thing happen here?

It's something called a "lunch break".

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You do realize that's been a thing for ever, right?

I had lunch at 10:15am in 1996

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Ask your Principal to allow kindergartners to eat lunch in their classrooms!

This is what our Principal did after a disastrous year of Kindergartners eating lunch at 10:30 in the cafeteria because of overcrowding (5th graders ate lunch at 1:30).

Everyone was much happier with a more normal lunch time. Eating in classrooms isn't a bad thing at all.

Most schools do not have the staffing to have supervision in each classroom at lunch time.

Honestly this was a problem that we had during COVID when students were still eating in the classroom. There aren't necessarily half a dozen people around the school that have nothing to do for either that 30 minutes or longer if they're supporting multiple lunches.

Serious question—at my elementary school there was no cafeteria and all kids ate lunch in their classroom. The teacher was in there with us usually also eating their lunch. Why can’t the same thing happen here?

It's something called a "lunch break".

Teachers at our son’s private school eat in the classroom with the kids (1st grade). Why can’t FCPS teachers do that too?

[Anonymous]

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Ask your Principal to allow kindergartners to eat lunch in their classrooms!

This is what our Principal did after a disastrous year of Kindergartners eating lunch at 10:30 in the cafeteria because of overcrowding (5th graders ate lunch at 1:30).

Everyone was much happier with a more normal lunch time. Eating in classrooms isn't a bad thing at all.

Most schools do not have the staffing to have supervision in each classroom at lunch time.

Honestly this was a problem that we had during COVID when students were still eating in the classroom. There aren't necessarily half a dozen people around the school that have nothing to do for either that 30 minutes or longer if they're supporting multiple lunches.

Serious question—at my elementary school there was no cafeteria and all kids ate lunch in their classroom. The teacher was in there with us usually also eating their lunch. Why can’t the same thing happen here?

It's something called a "lunch break".

Teachers at our son’s private school eat in the classroom with the kids (1st grade). Why can’t FCPS teachers do that too?

Because they don't teach at your son's private school and they get a LUNCH BREAK. Seriously. Would you really want to now take away a lunch break? Other than your son's private school, how many employers expect their employees to work a full day with no break?

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Ask your Principal to allow kindergartners to eat lunch in their classrooms!

This is what our Principal did after a disastrous year of Kindergartners eating lunch at 10:30 in the cafeteria because of overcrowding (5th graders ate lunch at 1:30).

Everyone was much happier with a more normal lunch time. Eating in classrooms isn't a bad thing at all.

Most schools do not have the staffing to have supervision in each classroom at lunch time.

Honestly this was a problem that we had during COVID when students were still eating in the classroom. There aren't necessarily half a dozen people around the school that have nothing to do for either that 30 minutes or longer if they're supporting multiple lunches.

Serious question—at my elementary school there was no cafeteria and all kids ate lunch in their classroom. The teacher was in there with us usually also eating their lunch. Why can’t the same thing happen here?

It's something called a "lunch break".

Teachers at our son’s private school eat in the classroom with the kids (1st grade). Why can’t FCPS teachers do that too?

Because they don't teach at your son's private school and they get a LUNCH BREAK. Seriously. Would you really want to now take away a lunch break? Other than your son's private school, how many employers expect their employees to work a full day with no break?

PP here -- the teachers at my son's school get breaks when the kids are in science, or PE, or art, or otherwise out of the classroom. Unless the kids are in the same room with the teacher all day, there are plenty of ways to give teachers breaks while also having them in the room with the kids during lunchtime.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:
Ask your Principal to allow kindergartners to eat lunch in their classrooms!

This is what our Principal did after a disastrous year of Kindergartners eating lunch at 10:30 in the cafeteria because of overcrowding (5th graders ate lunch at 1:30).

Everyone was much happier with a more normal lunch time. Eating in classrooms isn't a bad thing at all.

Most schools do not have the staffing to have supervision in each classroom at lunch time.

Honestly this was a problem that we had during COVID when students were still eating in the classroom. There aren't necessarily half a dozen people around the school that have nothing to do for either that 30 minutes or longer if they're supporting multiple lunches.

Serious question—at my elementary school there was no cafeteria and all kids ate lunch in their classroom. The teacher was in there with us usually also eating their lunch. Why can’t the same thing happen here?

It's something called a "lunch break".

Teachers at our son’s private school eat in the classroom with the kids (1st grade). Why can’t FCPS teachers do that too?

Because they don't teach at your son's private school and they get a LUNCH BREAK. Seriously. Would you really want to now take away a lunch break? Other than your son's private school, how many employers expect their employees to work a full day with no break?

PP here -- the teachers at my son's school get breaks when the kids are in science, or PE, or art, or otherwise out of the classroom. Unless the kids are in the same room with the teacher all day, there are plenty of ways to give teachers breaks while also having them in the room with the kids during lunchtime.

Are those breaks or planning time?

[Anonymous]

My nephews (not in Fairfax) have lunch at 2:15PM. What the hell is the point? At that point, they might as well just toss a sandwich and an apple at them as they board the school bus.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
Ask your Principal to allow kindergartners to eat lunch in their classrooms!

This is what our Principal did after a disastrous year of Kindergartners eating lunch at 10:30 in the cafeteria because of overcrowding (5th graders ate lunch at 1:30).

Everyone was much happier with a more normal lunch time. Eating in classrooms isn't a bad thing at all.

Most schools do not have the staffing to have supervision in each classroom at lunch time.

Honestly this was a problem that we had during COVID when students were still eating in the classroom. There aren't necessarily half a dozen people around the school that have nothing to do for either that 30 minutes or longer if they're supporting multiple lunches.

Then hire more people. No child should have to eat lunch at 10:30. Only in the US where people don't understand meals and food is this a problem.

OP here and agree. Meals are supposed to be nourishing at the right time, between 11:45-1.

Sure, but you can't fit (in some cases) 900-1,000 students into an undersized cafeteria in half hour blocks between 11:45 and 1:00.

The school can make it happen if there’s willingness and pressure from families.

LOL. How? Magic?

[Anonymous]

Let me guess, OP is a mom of a new kindergartner. Get with the program, this is not new.

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Ask your Principal to allow kindergartners to eat lunch in their classrooms!

This is what our Principal did after a disastrous year of Kindergartners eating lunch at 10:30 in the cafeteria because of overcrowding (5th graders ate lunch at 1:30).

Everyone was much happier with a more normal lunch time. Eating in classrooms isn't a bad thing at all.

Most schools do not have the staffing to have supervision in each classroom at lunch time.

Honestly this was a problem that we had during COVID when students were still eating in the classroom. There aren't necessarily half a dozen people around the school that have nothing to do for either that 30 minutes or longer if they're supporting multiple lunches.

Then hire more people. No child should have to eat lunch at 10:30. Only in the US where people don't understand meals and food is this a problem.

OP here and agree. Meals are supposed to be nourishing at the right time, between 11:45-1.

Sure, but you can't fit (in some cases) 900-1,000 students into an undersized cafeteria in half hour blocks between 11:45 and 1:00.

The school can make it happen if there’s willingness and pressure from families.

Nope cannot happen.

Yup we the people can make it happen.

Capacity limits exist. The fire marshal exists. Nope. Sorry.

"We the people," my ass.