Anonymous
05/14/2026 08:24
Subject: Re:TT trying to eliminate open lunch
Anonymous wrote:My concern is the Board discussion to mandate multiple period closed lunches. My kid is at Blair and enjoys the hour long lunch period - everyone has the same lunch period. They run clubs during lunch, students meet with teachers for academic support, watch movies in the theatre, play sports in the gyms, go the weight room, etc., and if not in a club or meeting with a teacher, the kids get to chill with friends for an hour. Since everyone has the same lunch period - they get to see all their friends. The students eat in the cafeteria, outside, in teacher's classrooms, and in the hallway table areas. If a multi-period lunch gets mandated, gone are the lunch clubs, the kids won't be able to hang in teacher's classrooms or eat in multiple places, and academic support will be more limited. Hopefully that was just a passing thought and not something that will actually be implemented.
Blair parents +1. If same lunch period is eliminated, about half of the club activities are going to be eliminated together. Aren't other HS hosting club activities during lunch time?
Anonymous
05/14/2026 08:23
Subject: Re:TT trying to eliminate open lunch
So does TT’s proposal call for both closed lunch AND multiple lunches? I don’t see how they could/would force schools that already do one closed lunch to start having multiple lunches.
Anonymous
05/14/2026 08:13
Subject: Re:TT trying to eliminate open lunch
Anonymous wrote:My concern is the Board discussion to mandate multiple period closed lunches. My kid is at Blair and enjoys the hour long lunch period - everyone has the same lunch period. They run clubs during lunch, students meet with teachers for academic support, watch movies in the theatre, play sports in the gyms, go the weight room, etc., and if not in a club or meeting with a teacher, the kids get to chill with friends for an hour. Since everyone has the same lunch period - they get to see all their friends. The students eat in the cafeteria, outside, in teacher's classrooms, and in the hallway table areas. If a multi-period lunch gets mandated, gone are the lunch clubs, the kids won't be able to hang in teacher's classrooms or eat in multiple places, and academic support will be more limited. Hopefully that was just a passing thought and not something that will actually be implemented.
Everyone who cares about one lunch period or open lunch should write to the BOE now because they are well on their way to rubber stamping whatever TT wants to do with no consideration of these points
Anonymous
05/14/2026 07:56
Subject: Re:TT trying to eliminate open lunch
My concern is the Board discussion to mandate multiple period closed lunches. My kid is at Blair and enjoys the hour long lunch period - everyone has the same lunch period. They run clubs during lunch, students meet with teachers for academic support, watch movies in the theatre, play sports in the gyms, go the weight room, etc., and if not in a club or meeting with a teacher, the kids get to chill with friends for an hour. Since everyone has the same lunch period - they get to see all their friends. The students eat in the cafeteria, outside, in teacher's classrooms, and in the hallway table areas. If a multi-period lunch gets mandated, gone are the lunch clubs, the kids won't be able to hang in teacher's classrooms or eat in multiple places, and academic support will be more limited. Hopefully that was just a passing thought and not something that will actually be implemented.
Anonymous
05/14/2026 07:48
Subject: TT trying to eliminate open lunch
Anonymous wrote:I guess the BOE views this as an equity issue? They aren’t going to allow anything unique, special or different at any of the schools.
MCPS is going to be a very dull, drab place to learn.
Anonymous
05/14/2026 07:46
Subject: TT trying to eliminate open lunch
I guess the BOE views this as an equity issue? They aren’t going to allow anything unique, special or different at any of the schools.
Anonymous
05/14/2026 07:41
Subject: TT trying to eliminate open lunch
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Guessing that Woodward won’t have open lunch so they see this as an opportunity to end it.
Not everything is strictly about the w schools. It’s a safety and liability issue. How much are your kids spending? Eating out daily is $$
Open lunch does not mean eating out. My WJ kids pack their lunches but eat in random locations near school.
Yes. There's nothing wrong with a healthy stroll away from campus, or to get some fresh air and vitamin d (from the sun). Some schools in rival districts keep the hs kids cooped up inside the building all day.
Exactly. My kid packs their lunch and meets their friends to eat on our backyard patio since we live two blocks from school. They get fresh air and a break from the building. Bonus - they can use a clean bathroom here, away from vaping and other nonsense in the school bathrooms.
Anonymous
05/14/2026 07:38
Subject: TT trying to eliminate open lunch
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Guessing that Woodward won’t have open lunch so they see this as an opportunity to end it.
Not everything is strictly about the w schools. It’s a safety and liability issue. How much are your kids spending? Eating out daily is $$
Open lunch does not mean eating out. My WJ kids pack their lunches but eat in random locations near school.
Yes. There's nothing wrong with a healthy stroll away from campus, or to get some fresh air and vitamin d (from the sun). Some schools in rival districts keep the hs kids cooped up inside the building all day.
Anonymous
05/14/2026 06:59
Subject: Re:TT trying to eliminate open lunch
Maybe Taylor can bus all our kids up to Crown to eat lunch there every day.
Anonymous
05/14/2026 06:57
Subject: TT trying to eliminate open lunch
Anonymous wrote:I don't think my RM kid every bought lunch but enjoyed going for a walk..getting a break from the building.
+1. 2 kids at RM, they leave the school for lunch every single day and do not buy food. They eat what they packed from home. The school is overcrowded, there is not enough room to have lunch in the building.
Anonymous
05/14/2026 06:06
Subject: TT trying to eliminate open lunch
I don't think my RM kid every bought lunch but enjoyed going for a walk..getting a break from the building.
Anonymous
05/14/2026 05:56
Subject: TT trying to eliminate open lunch
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Guessing that Woodward won’t have open lunch so they see this as an opportunity to end it.
Not everything is strictly about the w schools. It’s a safety and liability issue. How much are your kids spending? Eating out daily is $$
My kids bought lunch once a week over at G Square and packed their lunch the other days. Slice of pizza at Flippin isn’t that much.
Or they just bought something at Giant.
<$10
That's $50 a week, $200 a month, so yes, its expensive.
This is PP. my kids only bought lunch on Fridays. So only $40 (max) per month. We don’t really live within easy walking distance of any stores so this is their opportunity to do that kind of thing.
Anonymous
05/14/2026 05:29
Subject: TT trying to eliminate open lunch
Anonymous wrote:The Whitman HS kid arrested today is going to fuel this discussion even more now.
Oh yes, let’s prevent all kids doing nothing wrong from getting fresh air and a slice of pizza here or there because one kid with a probable criminal background made another exceptionally bad and criminal decision.
Anonymous
05/13/2026 23:28
Subject: TT trying to eliminate open lunch
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I don't even understand this discussion.
Many high schools do not have the space for students' lunches, for in terms of physical space and food availability. Like, it's not even debatable.
It's not happening, people. Open lunch is here to stay.
They started building HSs with small cafeteria years ago. But, they can keep students on campus, somehow. And if Taylor wants it, well then it will be done.
Taylor enjoyed open campus as a B-CC student, probably going to the "B-CC McDonalds", and likely his kids as well. This anti-open campus position is out of the blue. All very strange.
Trying to “fix” a nonissue.
Anonymous
05/13/2026 22:28
Subject: TT trying to eliminate open lunch
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Guessing that Woodward won’t have open lunch so they see this as an opportunity to end it.
Not everything is strictly about the w schools. It’s a safety and liability issue. How much are your kids spending? Eating out daily is $$
Open lunch does not mean eating out. My WJ kids pack their lunches but eat in random locations near school.