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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]THERE NEEDS TO BE AN EXCEPTION FOR SCHOOLS THAT CANNOT ACCOMMODATE ALL THEIR STUDENTS DURING LUNCH, SUCH AS BCC.

BCC has always had open lunch, mostly because the cafeteria was not expanded during its multiple additions, and partly because since it's in downtown Bethesda, outside food options are safely and easily accessible.

It is not physically possibly for BCC students to all stay at school during lunch! The cafeteria cannot serve even a quarter of the kids! [b]If most kids brings lunch from home and eat it at school, they will be forced to eat on the floor in the hallways[/b]. The outdoor court in the middle of the building is minuscule compared to the number of students and cannot accommodate even an eighth of the kids.

In short, there CANNOT be a blanket ban on open lunch. It takes very little effort to call up every high school and ask their Principals whether it would be a hardship, considering the size of the cafeteria, size of the building, and number of students, to cancel open lunch. WHY IS THE BOARD NOT DOING THIS?

The Board members need to resign if it knows so little about its schools that it leans towards a one-size-fits-all solution. SHAME ON THE BOARD AND THE SUPERINTENDENT.

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You do realize that other MCPS high schools that have closed lunch policies do in fact have kids eating in classrooms and hallways, right?

So you're screaming and shouting that BCC would pretty much have to comply with a policy the rest of the HSes already comply with.

Smells like white privilege.[/quote]

Give me a break. White privilege is real, but this isn’t it. BCC students already eat in classrooms and hallways. Not everyone goes out for lunch and most who don’t aren’t eating in the tiny (relative to size of student body) cafeteria. The problem would be if all 2500 students had to stay in because almost all would be eating in the hallways and for no good reason. Open lunch works well at BCC. The current policy is to leave it up to each principal to decide. Why is that a problem? Every school is different. If my kids went to a school that wasn’t in a walkable location, I might not want the to have open lunch. But they can get a slice of pizza and Chipotle within a 5-min walk, which they do about once or twice a week and eat in the hallways the other days. Why should it matter to parents at other schools if kids at other schools in more urban settings have open lunch?![/quote]

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