10:00 lunch for first grade?!?

[torismom]

Victoria is in 1st this year and I believe her lunch is at 10:45. Last year in K she ate at 10:15. Her school hours are 7:50-2:20.

 

[Aimeedyan]

THAT'S absurd! Who made up that schedule? If other schools can figure out how to get kids in and out during reasonable hours, why can't they? Crazy.

Poor thing... hope you bring snacks in the car when you pick her up each day!

I'd be tempted to pack her bacon and eggs for lunch LOL

 

[ADisneygirl]

Our school day runs 9:20 - 3:40. First lunch starts at 11:20, and the last lunch period closes the cafeteria at 1:30. They try and schedule the primary grades - K,1,2 for lunch first. They used to flip flop, one year it would be primary kids eating first, the next year the intermediate kids ate first. But..... parents complained that it was too long for the little ones to wait for lunch, some of them waiting until the 1 o'clock slot. So now primary kids always eat earlier.

Because your school begins so early in the am, that's why your first lunch periods end up starting at 10 in the morning. I don't know about your school, but at ours the cafeteria staff are there on shorter hours, therefore they have to clean up and leave about 1 1/2 hours before the end of the school day. If it is the same by you, that means the cafeteria people must be out of there about 1:00pm and need time to clean up before hand.

 

[lenshanem]

 

[disneyjunkie]

Originally posted by phillybeth
Not trying to get flamed here, but it's not just an issue with your school, but with your son as well.

 

[nealymouse]

We have been lucky I guess with our school.

Our school nurse found out that when the school started selling strawberry milk that there was a kick back from the company to the school. She sent out letters to all us parents telling us how bad the milk was and to call the school.

Well Strawberry milk was dropped real quick LOL

 

[disneyjunkie]

Originally posted by nealymouse
We have been lucky I guess with our school.

Our school nurse found out that when the school started selling strawberry milk that there was a kick back from the company to the school. She sent out letters to all us parents telling us how bad the milk was and to call the school.

Well Strawberry milk was dropped real quick LOL

Did ALL of the parents want this to end?

What about the parents that didn't have a problem with it.

Why didn't the parents that objected just tell their kids they couldn't have the strawberry milk?

 

[Pembo]

2nd & 3rd grade school here is from 7:20 - 1:55. Ds was in 2nd last year and ate lunch first, 10:30. My nephew was in 3rd and ate lunch last, 12:30. Big school, very small lunch room. I'd bet that's your school's problem as well.

 

[The Mystery Machine]

I feel your pain. When dd started 1st we had the same issue.

BUT (that is almost our lunchtime here at home)

 

[poohtown]

ironically my daughter loved her 10 am lunch - she rarely eats breakfast on the weekends before 10, so she's used to it.

 

[meandtheguys2]

Originally posted by disneyjunkie
Did ALL of the parents want this to end?

What about the parents that didn't have a problem with it.

Why didn't the parents that objected just tell their kids they couldn't have the strawberry milk?

Perhaps it was an issue because it is not good for children as well as there being a kick back to the school! FTR, I don't think schools should sell any junk food. Kids don't need loaded down with simple sugars and carbs in general. Not while obesity/diabetes is rampant in the younger crowd now.

There are ethical issues that I see in this.

To the OP, I am really sorry your dd will have to do this. Maybe you could adjust her schedule now to help her adjust, and talk to the school about a healthy snack.

 

[mommytutu]

When my son was in Kindergarten had lunch from 10:39-11:09 and he had a healthy snack around 2:00. School hours are from 7:45-3:15. Many days when I would pick him up from school he would be starving! He would come home and I'd wonder if he ate all day. DH would tell me it's only going to get worse when ds is a teenager---then he'll eat us out of house and home.

 

[Talking Hands]

Schedule for most of our K-1is to have snack and playground time from 12:30 to 1:15 as a start time. Lunchtime range from 10 to 10:45 start time. We also have special needs pre-K and they eat at 10am, go to the play area around 11 nap at 12 -1:20 snack at 1:30 and off to the bus at 1:45. All special needs kids dismiss 15 prior to regular ed to accommodate buses.
NOrmally snack is prior to playground but we have reversed that to accommodate a diabetic child who needed to play then snack.

 

[susy]

I am a pre-service teacher (will have my masters in one year) and my son is entering first grade. This is a big problem down here in south FL, where high school students sometimes have lunch earlier than 9:30am!

Kids need to eat to learn. I don't care if I have fifth graders. The students in my class will have a snack in addition to their lunch. Even if I just have to pass out a few pretzels and juice during a lesson. If you add up the time the kids are in school plus travel time it's a long time to go without eating even a little something. I certainly don't plan on going that long myself! I will also encourage my students to eat healthy, try to get them outside as much as I can, and encourage them to drink plenty of water and have a "rest time" each day -which will probably be me reading aloud. It's a lot to attend to , but I used to teach preschool so I'm used to doing a million things at once! I also believe in handwashing and scheduled trips to the bathroom. Learning cannot happen effectively if basic needs are not met...

 

[vhoffman]

Insofar as "just telling" my kids not to buy the chocolate or strawberry milk, weel, what makes you think I haven't? I've done everything I can to stop my kids from buying flavored milk and junk food. I've talked with the kids, talked with the school, written letters, all to no avail. If the school is going to allow the kids to buy junk, I can't stop it. I've even gone so far as to not send money, just pack their lunch. Then the school runs a tab. What can a parent do when their child routinely buys 3+ flavored milks a day and the school allows it? I've talked with my kids until my jaw aches about how junk food isn't good for them. Their reply "Teacher lets me." Or "Teacher says its OK". How can I flght that? The kids are getting mixed signals. However, my kids are getting older (they are now 7 & 8) and possibly I can reason with them more. When they were in kindergarten or even first grade they were vunerable and impressionable. They also want to fit in. That will be an issue (fitting in) as long as they go to school. However, I'll try to talk with my kids again. I really need to take this up further, however, The burden of "choice" shouldn't be placed on such a young child. All choices in the school cafeteria should be healthy ones. About a year ago, they offered the baked potato chips. They stopped selling them, however. When I asked why, they said the kids didn't like them. When I pointed out that they were selling the regular, fat-laden chips, their reply was "Kids need to learn how to make healthy choices." My reply was "So you agree that some of the menu items are not healthy, and a child of 5 or 6 is responsible for figuring that out?" Apparently, that made sense to them (the school). I never even considered the profit angle. I need to look into the profits they're recieving from the flavored milks, etc. It seems like our kids are profit-pawns of the schools. Yes, I know, they're a targeted marketing group elsewhere, however, only in my children's school do they have virtually unlimited access to all the sugar-laden foods they wish with no guidance, limits, etc. The school just sends me the bill!

 

[grinningghost]

Originally posted by zurgswife
I have a friend that has a high schooler that does lunch at 10:30....what High schooler is ready for lunch at 10:30????

Yep. My teenage daughter had lunch at 10:15 this past year. On non-school days, she's not even out of bed at that time.

 

[phillybeth]

Kids don't just respond to being lectured to. They also respond to consequences. Limits need to be set by the parents, it is NOT the school's responsibility to parent children. And if the limits are tested, kids need to know there are consequences. If my mom had found out that I blew my lunch budget for a month buying snacks for my friends, well I can't even imagine what she would have done because I knew better than to test those limits. Probably no snacks or soda at home, packing my own lunch, and paying her back the lunch money I spent trying to impress my friends. And she probably would have refused to pay the school a DIME if they ran a tab for me again.

Originally posted by vhoffman
Insofar as "just telling" my kids not to buy the chocolate or strawberry milk, weel, what makes you think I haven't? I've done everything I can to stop my kids from buying flavored milk and junk food. I've talked with the kids, talked with the school, written letters, all to no avail. If the school is going to allow the kids to buy junk, I can't stop it. I've even gone so far as to not send money, just pack their lunch. Then the school runs a tab. What can a parent do when their child routinely buys 3+ flavored milks a day and the school allows it? I've talked with my kids until my jaw aches about how junk food isn't good for them. Their reply "Teacher lets me." Or "Teacher says its OK". How can I flght that? The kids are getting mixed signals. However, my kids are getting older (they are now 7 & 8) and possibly I can reason with them more. When they were in kindergarten or even first grade they were vunerable and impressionable. They also want to fit in. That will be an issue (fitting in) as long as they go to school. However, I'll try to talk with my kids again. I really need to take this up further, however, The burden of "choice" shouldn't be placed on such a young child. All choices in the school cafeteria should be healthy ones. About a year ago, they offered the baked potato chips. They stopped selling them, however. When I asked why, they said the kids didn't like them. When I pointed out that they were selling the regular, fat-laden chips, their reply was "Kids need to learn how to make healthy choices." My reply was "So you agree that some of the menu items are not healthy, and a child of 5 or 6 is responsible for figuring that out?" Apparently, that made sense to them (the school). I never even considered the profit angle. I need to look into the profits they're recieving from the flavored milks, etc. It seems like our kids are profit-pawns of the schools. Yes, I know, they're a targeted marketing group elsewhere, however, only in my children's school do they have virtually unlimited access to all the sugar-laden foods they wish with no guidance, limits, etc. The school just sends me the bill!

 

[disneyjunkie]

Originally posted by meandtheguys2
Perhaps it was an issue because it is not good for children as well as there being a kick back to the school! FTR, I don't think schools should sell any junk food. Kids don't need loaded down with simple sugars and carbs in general. Not while obesity/diabetes is rampant in the younger crowd now.

I think many parents want to have items removed from the school so that they don't look like the "bad guy" when they tell thier child they can't have them.

When we lived in NC, my son's school had plenty of unhealthy items on the lunch line.

There were parents who did not want their kids to any of those items. I'm sure they would have been thrilled to see the school stop selling these things.

Some parents allowed the kids to buy snacks once a week and others allowed thier kids to get them daily.

I was in the last group. I didn't mind if my son got a bag of chips or an ice cream with his lunch. If the school made money off of it fine. I'd much rather do that than beg family/friends to buy wrapping paper.

 

[CourtasanSatine]

late lunch is just as bad when you are hungry and stuck in class.I had 8AM classes this past term in college and there were coffee cups and coke bottles just about every class(I'm ready for flames but if you're not human that early anything helps)

 

[meandtheguys2]

Originally posted by disneyjunkie
I think many parents want to have items removed from the school so that they don't look like the "bad guy" when they tell thier child they can't have them.

When we lived in NC, my son's school had plenty of unhealthy items on the lunch line.

There were parents who did not want their kids to any of those items. I'm sure they would have been thrilled to see the school stop selling these things.

Some parents allowed the kids to buy snacks once a week and others allowed thier kids to get them daily.

I was in the last group. I didn't mind if my son got a bag of chips or an ice cream with his lunch. If the school made money off of it fine. I'd much rather do that than beg family/friends to buy wrapping paper.

I DON'T buy wrapping paper! I just think that schools shouldn't be giving "junk food" to kids. If a parent wants to send little debbies, all the more power to them.

I still think that it is wrong to profit off of giving kids JF. It would be like MCD's paying to come in the school to sell.

I do see your point, though.