Lunch box drinks

[okeydokey]

Our high schools have block scheduling and your lunch is built in to either block 3 or 4, depending on the class. There would be no way to avoid having a lunch. There is no additional class offered during that time period.

We do not have block scheduling and we have the same thing. Lunch is fifth period. You are assigned a class and take either first or second lunch depending on the class. There is no class that can be added during lunch.

 

[StitchandPooh'sMom]

Both of my DDs (13 and 17) bring an 8 oz disposable water bottle in their lunch. DD17 also has a hydroflask of water that she keeps on her desk and refills as needed. Neither are big juice drinkers, and they don't want to go through the line to get milk. They are allowed soda and Gatorade at home or out to eat, so they are not restricted to water all the time. Their elementary school prohibited sodas, but I don't think the middle school and high school care.

Our high school has block scheduling, so there is no skipping lunch. Lunch is built into third block - either before, after or in the middle of class. One of the local high school offers the option to take an additional class at 7:30, before school starts. DD's school already starts at 7:30 anyway.

 

[Princesspolly0110]

Funny thing is that until the school started with their whole "this is banned" crap I never sent in soda- as soon as they started trying to dictate what you could feed your own child that is when I sent it in-they never ever took it away or called home. My friends daughter brought marshmallows for a snack one day and her teacher took it away- the mom went up to that school and threw a fit, basically told them unless they were going to provide her with snack everyday then she would send in what she had at home for the kid for snack. They never took it away again!

I agree. I don't think that a school should dictate what a child should be sent. You are the parent or guardian.. HOWEVER. If a child is sent with a package of candy, marshmallows, cookies and a soda on mulitiple occasions (or you know.. Ever) I think the school nurse or front office should provide them with an alternative lunch and contact home. I see no reason why a kid can't have a small can of soda with a well packed lunch. As far as snacks go.. Each parent paid a snack fee and we were all fed the same thing that day.. Goldfish.. Grapes.. A cookie ect. I guess we were spoiled.

 

[Princesspolly0110]

They take a reusable water bottle they keep at their desk, a small bottle of water for lunch and either a juice box or milk for snack. It's excessive I know, but their school doesn't have ac so if it's a hot day out they drink a lot. Also the lead tests on some water fountains in their school came back high so I told them no drinking out of the fountains at school.
They are going into second grade.

ids


Is not having air conditioning a permanent thing? That seems a little cruel depending on where you live... Our local schools lost power and therefor air and they closed the schools until they could cool the buildings back down. I couldn't expect a child to sit in a classroom all day that's over 80 degrees

 

[MaryLovesPoohBear]

I agree. I don't think that a school should dictate what a child should be sent. You are the parent or guardian.. HOWEVER. If a child is sent with a package of candy, marshmallows, cookies and a soda on mulitiple occasions (or you know.. Ever) I think the school nurse or front office should provide them with an alternative lunch and contact home. I see no reason why a kid can't have a small can of soda with a well packed lunch. As far as snacks go.. Each parent paid a snack fee and we were all fed the same thing that day.. Goldfish.. Grapes.. A cookie ect. I guess we were spoiled.

Ever? So a child should NEVER have a lunch that is a celebration? NEVER ?

See, my take is, this is (or was) my child. Unless there is abuse or neglect, I should be able to feed my child what I want. And the government should keep their nose out of it.

My son is now in college. He can, and does, eat whatever he wants.

 

[aprilgail]

Schools in my state would not be able to do that - students must have a lunch period. You can't opt out of it.

Also, lunch is never the same length as a class period - it's built into a class. A lunch would go to lunch, then the entire class. B lunch goes to 25 minutes of class, 30 minutes of lunch, 25 minutes back to the same class. C lunch does the class then lunch. Students would then start the next class period at the same time. Even the high schools with block scheduling have the lunch built into a class period.

The only person who I know who can skip lunch to double up on classes is Hermione Granger.

Not here- lunch is a full period- its either 5, 6 or 7th period. Its high school now so they just hang out in one of the cafeterias the whole 40 minutes- or they can go to the library room or some kids like mine go hang out in the chorus room during lunch since there was no class there that period, In Jr High they eat half the 40 minutes and then have to go outside the other half of the period- same thing went for grade school. In grade school the Kindergartens and 5th graders had lunch the same time, then the 1st and 2nd graders went and then the 3&4th graders went. Lunch went quicker in grade school because each group was only in the cafeteria for 20 minutes- they would bring one group inside and send the next group out.

 

[aprilgail]

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Is not having air conditioning a permanent thing? That seems a little cruel depending on where you live... Our local schools lost power and therefor air and they closed the schools until they could cool the buildings back down. I couldn't expect a child to sit in a classroom all day that's over 80 degrees

We don't have air conditioning in our schools- its brutal in Sept and June in there!

 

[jmmess]

Thermos with ice water since kindergarten.

Same here! Elementary school aged.

 

[pookybean]

Oh, bad mom here. I send my teen DD to school with Capri Sun pouch, mini Gatorade bottle or can of Izze.

Nope, not at all. My dd took kool aid boxes or capri suns....which ever was cheapest during that shopping trip. She came home one day and told me that juice boxes are really just sugar water (i think there was a health assembly or something). Ok kid, you got it. Water bottle every day....easier on me actually! lol

 

[kymom99]

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Is not having air conditioning a permanent thing? That seems a little cruel depending on where you live... Our local schools lost power and therefor air and they closed the schools until they could cool the buildings back down. I couldn't expect a child to sit in a classroom all day that's over 80 degrees

Seriously, we had no air when I was in school. Also the school I taught at had no air for the first 10 years I was there. And Kentucky gets really hot from june-September.

 

[aprilchem]

This is INSANE! Do they police the food too or just the beverages? I find it sad that schools think that chocolate milk which is made of sugar and ARTIFICAL flavors, is better than say a Honest Kids Organic juice pouch.

If they are not banning "Lunchables" they should not be banning organic juice! Talk about government control over people's lives! I bet most of the cafeteria food is processed crap.

The chocolate milk they serve in our cafeteria is all-natural - no artificial flavors or colors. It is not organic, but the packaging says that the milk comes from cows that are not given any antibiotics or hormones.

I, personally, am glad they don't allow juice at our school. We don't allow juice at home, so it's one less battle for me to fight.

 

[MaryLovesPoohBear]

The chocolate milk they serve in our cafeteria is all-natural - no artificial flavors or colors. It is not organic, but the packaging says that the milk comes from cows that are not given any antibiotics or hormones.

I, personally, am glad they don't allow juice at our school. We don't allow juice at home, so it's one less battle for me to fight.

The problem with this is, that just because you don't want your children to have juice as a choice, doesn't mean that I don't want my child to.

I'm sorry that it would be a battle for you simply because there is juice in a lunch that doesn't belong to your children.

 

[kymom99]

Ever? So a child should NEVER have a lunch that is a celebration? NEVER ?

See, my take is, this is (or was) my child. Unless there is abuse or neglect, I should be able to feed my child what I want. And the government should keep their nose out of it.

My son is now in college. He can, and does, eat whatever he wants.

Some would argue that feeding a child food with zero nutritional value as a meal is abuse.

 

[MaryLovesPoohBear]

Some would argue that feeding a child food with zero nutritional value as a meal is abuse.

Good luck proving that.

Most people, at one time or another, eat something that has zero nutritional value.

 

[kymom99]

Good luck proving that.

Most people, at one time or another, eat something that has zero nutritional value.

I'm referring to the comment if someone sending a lunch of nothing but junk food not just one thing among an otherwise nutritious lunch

 

[DawnM]

I'm referring to the comment if someone sending a lunch of nothing but junk food not just one thing among an otherwise nutritious lunch

But there is debate about even that. My son had cheesecake for breakfast. I would argue it has protein from the cream cheese and eggs, carbs from the crust, and milk for strong bones.

Oh, wait, never mind......I do have a healthy breakfast.

 

[jsmla]

Wow, I had no idea things had changed so much! My kids are adults but back in the 90/00s I was practically the only parent who insisted on packing healthy lunches. Everyone else had PB&J, Lunchables and other processed junk every day.

To this day DD is still too traumatized to even consider eating cantaloupe.

 

[Gracie09]

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Is not having air conditioning a permanent thing? That seems a little cruel depending on where you live... Our local schools lost power and therefor air and they closed the schools until they could cool the buildings back down. I couldn't expect a child to sit in a classroom all day that's over 80 degrees

I'm in the north east. Many homes don't have ac. Heat is an issue a few weeks a year. Growing up in the same area there was no ac in the classrooms. You opened Windows and used fans which is what they do. I'm more concerned about lead in the drinking water, but that's just me

 

[monsterkitty]

I'm in the north east. Many homes don't have ac. Heat is an issue a few weeks a year. Growing up in the same area there was no ac in the classrooms. You opened Windows and used fans which is what they do. I'm more concerned about lead in the drinking water, but that's just me

We don't have AC in our building either and my room will reach up to 100+. My classroom has no windows for me to open. If I plug in a fan in the one outlet I have with my computer, half the building loses power. Guess who doesn't get to plug in a fan. When my room reaches 90+ I take my kids on field trips: to the drinking fountain, outside for a 5 minute cool down break, another drinking fountain.

 

[mjkacmom]

Does she only go half a day? Why does she not get a lunch?

My kids go to public school, dd20 only had lunch 2 years, ds19 1 year. They were in choir, which is a fixed period, gym is mandatory, and they took classes that required a lab period - no time for lunches. They were allowed to eat (quickly) in choir and Spanish.