Anonymous
05/22/2026 00:54
Subject: Re:TT trying to eliminate open lunch
Isn't the safety paramount?
Anonymous
05/21/2026 22:30
Subject: TT trying to eliminate open lunch
Ok, so discussion on the topic got pushed ?
Any mention of WHY the topic was rushed causing so many students and parents to unnecessarily spend their resources on THIS TOPIC????!! Why, Taylor and BOE?
Any mention of WHY the topic was rushed causing so many students and parents to unnecessarily spend their resources on THIS TOPIC????!! Why, Taylor and BOE?
Anonymous
05/21/2026 20:55
Subject: TT trying to eliminate open lunch
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:What are our thoughts on testimony?
I thought some speeches were outstanding, while others fell short....
It's a shame open lunch is such a huge topic for speeches.
Um these are kids
Kids were amazing. I'm speaking about adults.
Anonymous
05/21/2026 20:54
Subject: TT trying to eliminate open lunch
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Growing up in another country, all of us students carried our lunch in bento boxes our moms packed for us, and we ate at our desk in the classroom.
Why can't school kids do the same here. Those who get their lunch boxes need to sit in the classroom and eat there. The rest who buy lunch can go in the cafeteria. Or bring their own bento boxes, buy food and take it to their classrooms.
Or rotate the lunch period.
How terribly are these schools run.
Why are we changing something that isn’t broken?
9/11 local businesses surrounding schools with open lunch said that they experience no issues with student conduct and that they appreciate the business students bring.
If you want your kids to attend a school with closed lunch, send them there instead of forcing others to adopt your policy for 0 reason.
For one of the most educated counties in this country, so many posters on this site are dense in the head.
Something that’s not broken? My kids school is closed lunch, ONE period and they can’t even go outside. It’s not broken for YOU. It should be the same across the board.
You realize that if they had voted to rescind the current policy, the “same across the board” would have been closed lunch for everyone, right? If you want your kids’ school to have open lunch, mobilize your community to petition the principal to allow for open lunch. Lucky for you, that’s still an option after tonight’s votes.
Anonymous
05/21/2026 20:47
Subject: TT trying to eliminate open lunch
Anonymous wrote:What are our thoughts on testimony?
I thought some speeches were outstanding, while others fell short....
It's a shame open lunch is such a huge topic for speeches.
Um these are kids
Anonymous
05/21/2026 19:07
Subject: TT trying to eliminate open lunch
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Growing up in another country, all of us students carried our lunch in bento boxes our moms packed for us, and we ate at our desk in the classroom.
Why can't school kids do the same here. Those who get their lunch boxes need to sit in the classroom and eat there. The rest who buy lunch can go in the cafeteria. Or bring their own bento boxes, buy food and take it to their classrooms.
Or rotate the lunch period.
How terribly are these schools run.
Why are we changing something that isn’t broken?
9/11 local businesses surrounding schools with open lunch said that they experience no issues with student conduct and that they appreciate the business students bring.
If you want your kids to attend a school with closed lunch, send them there instead of forcing others to adopt your policy for 0 reason.
For one of the most educated counties in this country, so many posters on this site are dense in the head.
Something that’s not broken? My kids school is closed lunch, ONE period and they can’t even go outside. It’s not broken for YOU. It should be the same across the board.
Anonymous
05/21/2026 19:02
Subject: TT trying to eliminate open lunch
What are our thoughts on testimony?
I thought some speeches were outstanding, while others fell short....
It's a shame open lunch is such a huge topic for speeches.
I thought some speeches were outstanding, while others fell short....
It's a shame open lunch is such a huge topic for speeches.
Anonymous
05/21/2026 17:39
Subject: TT trying to eliminate open lunch
Anonymous wrote:Growing up in another country, all of us students carried our lunch in bento boxes our moms packed for us, and we ate at our desk in the classroom.
Why can't school kids do the same here. Those who get their lunch boxes need to sit in the classroom and eat there. The rest who buy lunch can go in the cafeteria. Or bring their own bento boxes, buy food and take it to their classrooms.
Or rotate the lunch period.
How terribly are these schools run.
Why are we changing something that isn’t broken?
9/11 local businesses surrounding schools with open lunch said that they experience no issues with student conduct and that they appreciate the business students bring.
If you want your kids to attend a school with closed lunch, send them there instead of forcing others to adopt your policy for 0 reason.
For one of the most educated counties in this country, so many posters on this site are dense in the head.
Anonymous
05/21/2026 17:37
Subject: TT trying to eliminate open lunch
The testimony around student lunches and independence was well done however it's a shame we're wasting so much time talking about fixing something that's not broken.
Anonymous
05/21/2026 17:33
Subject: TT trying to eliminate open lunch
Growing up in another country, all of us students carried our lunch in bento boxes our moms packed for us, and we ate at our desk in the classroom.
Why can't school kids do the same here. Those who get their lunch boxes need to sit in the classroom and eat there. The rest who buy lunch can go in the cafeteria. Or bring their own bento boxes, buy food and take it to their classrooms.
Or rotate the lunch period.
How terribly are these schools run.
Why can't school kids do the same here. Those who get their lunch boxes need to sit in the classroom and eat there. The rest who buy lunch can go in the cafeteria. Or bring their own bento boxes, buy food and take it to their classrooms.
Or rotate the lunch period.
How terribly are these schools run.
Anonymous
05/21/2026 17:29
Subject: TT trying to eliminate open lunch
Anonymous wrote:Was a decision made? I feel like it needs to be the same across the board
They’re pushing it down the line for now.
Anonymous
05/21/2026 17:16
Subject: TT trying to eliminate open lunch
Was a decision made? I feel like it needs to be the same across the board
Anonymous
05/21/2026 15:32
Subject: TT trying to eliminate open lunch
Anonymous
05/21/2026 15:13
Subject: TT trying to eliminate open lunch
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Where does he propose the nearly 3000 kids eat at WJ?
There will be much less soon. Our kids eat in the halls, classrooms, etc.
Soon isn’t next year. And no, they should not have to sit in the floor in the hall or use teacher’s classrooms. At the very least upperclassmen should be able to leave for lunch.
Wootton that has always had closed lunches. Kids sit in halls. It’s sucks. Never was even allowed to eat outside on bleachers. After the shooting, they were packed in like sardines in 4 locations only and can’t even go outside to courtyards or inside in any classrooms. Security takes away parking permits even if they just hang out by their car, kids get detentions for sitting on the floor in a hallway “not allowed” for lunch. It’s been like a prison. It’s been a terrible year at that school.
If they want closed lunches, they need to have various periods for lunch - not one where thousands of students have no where to go or eat.
Yikes. So the students had trauma and the reward is a jail like environment?
Anonymous
05/21/2026 14:39
Subject: TT trying to eliminate open lunch
Anonymous wrote:There is so much wrong with this policy change while schools are as overcrowded as they are right now. But, even worse, why are they rushing this for next year?
Because parents, teachers and students are too burned out to protest