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

[Anonymous]

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There's food in the cafeteria. It may not be what your kid wants, but it's there. That's a "have" problem. I don't get doordash deliveries at home for dinner if I cook something they don't like. Do you do that?

My kids usually bring hot lunch to school in a thermos. If they forget it, or if they want something else, I put money in their lunch account for emergencies.

Yes it would still be an issue no matter where they eat because the issue is not about have and have nots. It's about the front office being overwhelmed.

The school isn't your home. This is entitlement at its finest.

I think there is a business opportunity here to streamline this process.

If I cooked with shitty, substandard ingredients and gave it to my kids, I hope they would reject what I cooked. School cafeteria food is for poor immigrants and FARMs kids mainly because they don't know better. They are being fed meals that costs pennies and is leading to an obesity problem.

You have no idea what entitlement is.

WTF did I just read?

Word salad, made with substandard ingredients.

I was with you until you used that God awful term ("word salad" - just stop).

[Anonymous]

Don't derail the thread.

I am giving thumbs up to DoorDash and Uber to get away from cafeteria food and MCPS transportation. YMMV

[Anonymous]

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I mean, I'm sure the *could* put a process in place, but have probably decide there is a better use of their limited resources than managing lunch deliveries for children who already have other options for getting food. If it's important to the parents they can propose a system staffed by volunteers to make it happen.

It's totally different than the rare parent bringing in a forgotten lunch. It's the uptick of instances that is causing a problem, and the fact that it's probably a luxury for those kids rather than a necessity. Something similar happened at our university mail room when Amazon and online shopping really started to take off. Suddenly all the faculty and staff were having multiple personal deliveries to work rather than to their home. The mailroom simply didn't have space and couldn't keep up. They didn't knock down a wall and cut the budget elsewhere to hire more staff. They sent out a notice to all departments banning personal deliveries. Problem solved.

Big difference between mail delivery and lunch delivery. Lunch will be consumed as soon as it is delivered (especially, if it is timed correctly), unlike packages that will remain in the mail room, unclaimed.

Besides, food delivery is for a basic need - of being fed during the day. I think the outrage is because of haves and have-nots. I also think that if students are allowed to eat their lunch in the classrooms or school grounds if they choose, instead of the cafeteria, this will not be an issue.

I'm all for banning the food delivery. Options if you don't bring your lunch would be; cafeteria, maybe vending machine or borrowing money from a friend. Ridiculous to have Door Dash and I hope it does get banned. Schools used to send students home for lunch because they're werent cafeterias in the school. Then the battle cry was hot lunches! Add or build a cafeteria and hire staff to cook. Students need hot lunches. Now the schools provide FREE breakfast and lunch and now what is everyone complaining about? My kid doesn't like the school lunch/forgot her money/can't be bothered to pack a few snacks so Door Dash is the logical conclusion?

Let me guess? Same parents who allow or insist their sick MS/HS kid just take Uber home from school stead of actually coming in to pick up the student. Yep. Happens a lot.

Lazy, detached parents who will wonder (likely not) where it all went wrong...

[Anonymous]

A parent who realizes the school lunch is gross and unhealthy is not a detached parent.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:A parent who realizes the school lunch is gross and unhealthy is not a detached parent.

plus 1

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:A parent who realizes the school lunch is gross and unhealthy is not a detached parent.

then pack your kid's lunch. My kids pack their lunches everyday.

[Anonymous]

If we can have Chromebooks instead of teachers educating students, I see no harm in having DoorDash delivering food instead of students eating cafeteria food!!

MCPS can save money if we reduce the number of students who depend on the cafeteria food, so we should encourage services like DoorDash. Once we have fewer mouths to feed then maybe we could make the food healthier? Desperate times call for outside the box solutions.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If we can have Chromebooks instead of teachers educating students, I see no harm in having DoorDash delivering food instead of students eating cafeteria food!!

MCPS can save money if we reduce the number of students who depend on the cafeteria food, so we should encourage services like DoorDash. Once we have fewer mouths to feed then maybe we could make the food healthier? Desperate times call for outside the box solutions.

Sure, we can pay more in taxes to hire more front office staff during lunch hours to manage all the deliveries.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:If we can have Chromebooks instead of teachers educating students, I see no harm in having DoorDash delivering food instead of students eating cafeteria food!!

MCPS can save money if we reduce the number of students who depend on the cafeteria food, so we should encourage services like DoorDash. Once we have fewer mouths to feed then maybe we could make the food healthier? Desperate times call for outside the box solutions.

Sure, we can pay more in taxes to hire more front office staff during lunch hours to manage all the deliveries.

But we will save money in feeding these people. So it will all work out for the best. In the end, there will be less rush in the cafeteria and less fighting and bullying.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:A parent who realizes the school lunch is gross and unhealthy is not a detached parent.

The parent who realizes this and orders food to be delivered to the school is a lazy parent.