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[quote=Anonymous]This is such an interesting thread.  My daughter attended our public school in Loudoun for the first time this August.  As with most schools, they desperately need volunteers from the git go starting with sign-up on Parents' Open House the Thursday before the first day of school.  I volunteered for one of the days (Thursday) to be on lunch duty so the teacher could go an eat.  I was also interested in seeing the process of how lunchtime goes day to day.  My daughter's lunch time was 10:40 so i showed up in front of the cafeteria doors about 5 minutes earlier.  Well, it was an experience.  How things have changed...  Wow...  So first off, when you are told your child has 25 minutes for lunch, that includes the entier process of walking down to the bathrooms in front of the cafeteria so all the kids can go in use the bathroom, wash their hands, etc.  My daughter's class has 26 kids.  Then they go into the cafeteria to sit down.  Some kids pack and some buy.  It's very unfortunate for the ones that buy because they litterally have maybe 10 minutes to eat.....I mean swallow their food.  Just to reiterate what a PP wrote, I was disgusted by how much good uneaten food was going into the big trash can.  So if you wonder why your little one comes home cranky or really hungry, then sign up for lunch duty at the school and experience it for yourself.  You won't ahve to be there for long becasue the whole lunch process does not last long anyways.

I don't know what can be done about this and I have read some of the PPs which state that this is the way it is, but does tha tmake it right?  Is this problem so difficult to solve that we are just going to get used to this where kids are not learning to socialize while eating, much less chew???[/quote]

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