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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My DD is in K and they eat lunch at 10:30am. No snack and dismissal is after 3. She gets home at 3:45 and is extremely crabby and hungry.

I have an EdD and think it's foolishness to expect anyone to learn when they are distractingly hungry. And yes, a 5-year-old who hasn't eaten anything for 4-5 hours is distracted and can't absorb instruction.

Instruction time lost to snacking would be more than made up in quality of instruction time remaining. 1 hour spent attempting to teach hungry 5-year-olds would be better spent divided into snacking and then using the remaining time to teach nourished, comfortable kids.

Anyone pretending this is a "special snowflake" issue doesn't understand the physiological needs that need to be met for school learning to happen. [/quote]

Wow, what school system? That's ridiculous. [/quote]

I agree that's nuts. I'm a PP with a daily snack. There are (totally reasonable) rules at our school like nothing messy or requiring a utensil. They recommend fruit/veggie, cheese, granola bar, etc. It's quick and NBD.[/quote]

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