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    Anonymous wrote:One of you should go in and volunteer in lunch one day. Even the 25min is not a true 25min. Teachers are late all the time, kids need to find their lunch box and the aides make them clean up 5-7min ahead of time so they make it out to recess. It is really sad how quickly and forced lunch is. If he can't open something, you have to raise your hand until someone comes over. ugh!! If you think the bag lunch kids have it bad, you should see the pizza line on Friday. I have seen kids get their lunch after waiting 18min in line and have 3min to scarf down a few bites and throw the rest away.

I'm a teacher who has lunch duty -- this is very true. Kids often have 10 minutes or less to eat their lunch.

Send something single, easy to open, easy to eat. Don't send 5 different pieces for lunch. Send 3 things.[/quote]

This is the report we got from DS, now grade 2.  I'm one of those gourmet-lunch-making dads, and when he was in Montessori kindergarten he loved loved loved it.  When he switched to public school first grade, lunch barely got touched.  I learned that too many choices in that limited amount of time were too daunting for him.  Same for too much quantity--a full serving, even a full sandwich, is too much.  Now he gets half a sandwich each day, and a container with about 7 or 8 bites of fruit.  That's what he can manage in the 5-7 minutes he gets to eat.  Anything more, and it all comes back untouched.

He's otherwise a great eater.  One dad to another: put the effort into breakfast and dinner.  For lunch, give yourself a break and send what works.  
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