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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Not ALL schools are offering outdoors as an option. Literally not an option for any student at WMS. While the feeder elementaries are ALL doing outdoor lunch. Yorktown also strongly encouraging students to eat outdoors.  APS needs to mandate an outdoor option, weather permitting.  That’s a minimum basic requirement in my view. [/quote]

According to my WMS 6th grader, they were allowed to eat lunch outdoors today.[/quote]

That’s terrific! It’s be nice to communicate that to parents. Particularly those who have expressed concern about lunch as an impediment to returning to hybrid.  [/quote]

They literally have- this has always been true.  This is the FAQ on this
Outdoor Lunch

APS has strongly encouraged all schools to utilize outdoor spaces to help improve physical distancing during lunch in the hybrid model. APS has provided guidance to help schools devise an outdoor lunch plan as an option for students, to the extent possible. While every school has different challenges, many schools provide lunch outside as an option for students when weather, space and seating, and staffing conditions allow. Schools have implemented creative solutions, such as the use of:

Blacktop or hard surface play spaces marked to indicate six feet apart to designate seating for students.
Playing fields or other green spaces provided the ground is dry and that all students have equitable seating such as blankets or another alternative.
Reconfigured courtyards, picnic tables, desks or other seating outside, provided those locations are available.
As schools adjust to having more students in the building over the next few weeks, they will continue to  adjust and communicate their plans for meals. 
https://www.apsva.us/school-year-2020-21/health-safety/safety-at-school/#meals

one of my big issues with the petition is that APS has always said it was strongly encouraging outdoor lunch, to the extent possible.   The petition writer is fully aware of this, and is getting people spun up into believing that they wouldn't have outdoor lunch when in reality, the Williamsburg principal was not willing to commit to outdoor lunch in the pouring rain.
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