Middle school lunch times (more like brunch)
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Anonymous
| My incoming sixth grader's lunch is scheduled for period 3, which apparently puts it at about 10:20. That's a very long stretch until getting home. How have other MS kids handled the early lunch, or do they just suck it up and starve the last hour of school? |
Anonymous
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Mine had that last year too and for him it was a disaster. I think the teachers are accommodating about snacks in the afternoon. Easy stuff to eat, packages that don't make too much noise. |
Anonymous
| I always sent them with a second sandwich to wolf down before the last period (or sooner). They still came home and ate a big snack and big dinner but it kept them from being hangry |
Anonymous
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That's ridiculous. WTF? My fifth grader is having lunch at 1pm.
Result of school overcrowding, I guess and they can't accommodate all the lunch periods. |
Anonymous
| It IS ridiculous. But, my kids found that teachers were fine with them discreetly eating snacks during the later periods - grapes, pretzels, etc. Nothing messy or loud. |
Anonymous
| My rising sixth grader is in trouble since she's coming from a private school that had daily afternoon snack. |
Anonymous
Why would you ever send her to public middle school? Just awful. |
Anonymous
Why would you ever post something like this? Just awful. |
Anonymous
Is 1 really that bad? What are the appropriate lunch hours especially since ES starts pretty late? |
Anonymous
| My kids attend one of the 3 largest and most over-crowded middle schools in the County, and the first lunch doesn't start until 11ish (which I still find early, but acceptably so). |
Anonymous
| My MSer leaves for the bus at 6:45 am. So he's eating breakfast at like 6:15. A 10:20 lunch is just about right in the middle of his long day. Plus it's only like 5-6 hours between finishing and then getting home to eat again. None of mine had any trouble with that. |
Anonymous
| DS is at Hoover and they have a catered snack bar set up in the afternoon for hungry kiddos! |
Anonymous
Because divorce. |
Anonymous
| This is OP. Our school has breakfast for everybody in the classroom 8:05-8:15. Lunch is at 10:17. He gets home about 4. So, 5.5 hours between chances to eat. Which would be no problem for adults but middle school boys are in the midst of the biggest growth spurts of their lives so they get hungry a lot. Math is last in the day and he doesn't want to be hangry. He'll just have to see how it goes but I like the grape or quiet snack idea. |
Anonymous
That is great. |