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

[Anonymous]

I just got an email from the school about how there has been an uptick in DoorDash type deliveries to the MS for the kids' lunches, and to not do this because it puts a burden on the office staff. I had not heard this was a thing. We are not at a W cluster. Wow. I'm kinda amazed by this.

[Anonymous]

Sounds nuts

[Anonymous]

I thought the same thing when I read it! However, I’m wondering if it’s actually the kids that are ordering from their own phones.

[Anonymous]

I am in a W school and parents bring their children lunch Whole Foods, Chick-fil-A, Panera, Chipotle, etc. during the day when they’ve forgotten to pack lunch or they are bribing a child for something.

[Anonymous]

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.

[Anonymous]

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.

[Anonymous]

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.

Wow! That certainly wasn’t happening in my W school in MCPS. Regardless there principals message was that it needed to stop so I guess even those kids will need to deal with a day of a school lunch.

[Anonymous]

Not allowed in MCPS (competes with school lunch in the cafeteria). Kids get around it by having delivery come to a side door...

[Anonymous]

I teach kindergarten in DC and we have parents who do this for K.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I just got an email from the school about how there has been an uptick in DoorDash type deliveries to the MS for the kids' lunches, and to not do this because it puts a burden on the office staff. I had not heard this was a thing. We are not at a W cluster. Wow. I'm kinda amazed by this.

High school kids do it (not in a W cluster). They're not supposed to, but when did that ever stop anyone?

[Anonymous]

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

[Anonymous]

Great idea will start doing this

[Anonymous]

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

[Anonymous]

I think it's extremely rude to do this for a middle schooler. You're expecting main office staff to receive the order or sign for it AND track down your kid to give them their precious hot meal. If I were a secretary I'd send the order back.

In high schools with open lunch, it's fine because the kid can just meet the delivery driver wherever.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Great idea will start doing this

It might start to get turned away, so you'd be wasting your money.