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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Open campus lunch has worked for decades in many Montgomery County, Arlington, and DC public schools. It started in the late 60s and early 70s as students gained more freedom from then overbearing school administrations. MCPS, APS, and DCPS kept the open campus lunch policies in place because they worked so well over the years. Local businesses also benefited from the lunchtime rush. Student clubs, extracurriculars, and other activities are scheduled in coordination with the lunch periods. Also, notably, the public high schools with open lunches are within walking distance of homes, fast food joints, and businesses. The campuses also tend to be urban: B-CC, Walter Johnson, the former Blair, Jackson-Reed (Wilson), H-B Woodlawn, W-L, Yorktown, etc. Seniors in APS have open campus driving privileges. [/quote]

I understand that.  But why do other schools say they can NOT leave campus for security reasons, they can't have food delivered, and they need to stay indoors.  But yet, those same schools also have small cafeterias and thousands of kids that need to eat at the same time.  If no one brought food from home or even 35% of the kids are on FARMS, there is no way you are feeding all of those kids in under 50min [/quote]

But in reality...[/quote]

The kids don't eat
The kids leave campus anyway
The cafeteria can supply enough food for them

What [/quote]

All of the high schools do it this way, and have been doing it this way for years. What do you know that none of the administrators at all of these high schools know?[/quote]

You think the administrators care if the students eat or not?  :lol:

The OP asked why some schools you can not even leave campus or delivery food and claim it as security reasons. [/quote]

The security reason is they don’t want to have to get involved in food delivery disputes. Lunch is late and kid can’t pick it up because kid needs to be in class for a test. Someone else picks up a lunch ordered and paid for by a different kid and a fight breaks out. So many issues with food delivery. [/quote]

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