Anonymous wrote:DS is at Hoover and they have a catered snack bar set up in the afternoon for hungry kiddos!

That is great.

This is OP. Our school has breakfast for everybody in the classroom 8:05-8:15. Lunch is at 10:17. He gets home about 4. So, 5.5 hours between chances to eat. Which would be no problem for adults but middle school boys are in the midst of the biggest growth spurts of their lives so they get hungry a lot. Math is last in the day and he doesn't want to be hangry. He'll just have to see how it goes but I like the grape or quiet snack idea.

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Anonymous wrote:My rising sixth grader is in trouble since she's coming from a private school that had daily afternoon snack.

Why would you ever send her to public middle school? Just awful.

Because divorce.

DS is at Hoover and they have a catered snack bar set up in the afternoon for hungry kiddos!

My MSer leaves for the bus at 6:45 am. So he's eating breakfast at like 6:15. A 10:20 lunch is just about right in the middle of his long day. Plus it's only like 5-6 hours between finishing and then getting home to eat again. None of mine had any trouble with that.

My kids attend one of the 3 largest and most over-crowded middle schools in the County, and the first lunch doesn't start until 11ish (which I still find early, but acceptably so).

Anonymous wrote:That's ridiculous. WTF? My fifth grader is having lunch at 1pm.

Result of school overcrowding, I guess and they can't accommodate all the lunch periods.

Is 1 really that bad? What are the appropriate lunch hours especially since ES starts pretty late?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My rising sixth grader is in trouble since she's coming from a private school that had daily afternoon snack.

Why would you ever send her to public middle school? Just awful.

Why would you ever post something like this? Just awful.

Anonymous wrote:My rising sixth grader is in trouble since she's coming from a private school that had daily afternoon snack.

Why would you ever send her to public middle school? Just awful.

My rising sixth grader is in trouble since she's coming from a private school that had daily afternoon snack.

It IS ridiculous. But, my kids found that teachers were fine with them discreetly eating snacks during the later periods - grapes, pretzels, etc. Nothing messy or loud.

That's ridiculous. WTF? My fifth grader is having lunch at 1pm.

Result of school overcrowding, I guess and they can't accommodate all the lunch periods.

I always sent them with a second sandwich to wolf down before the last period (or sooner). They still came home and ate a big snack and big dinner but it kept them from being hangry

Mine had that last year too and for him it was a disaster.

I think the teachers are accommodating about snacks in the afternoon. Easy stuff to eat, packages that don't make too much noise.

My incoming sixth grader's lunch is scheduled for period 3, which apparently puts it at about 10:20. That's a very long stretch until getting home. How have other MS kids handled the early lunch, or do they just suck it up and starve the last hour of school?