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Give Our Kids Enough Time To Eat

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Gloria Struiksma
9 years ago

all of washington needs this. i also was forced to eat very little or not at all because of the lunch times.

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Cristina Vanderpool
9 years ago

Also lunches should not be @ 10:30 in the mornings with a start time of 9 am.

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Brittany Holley
9 years ago

My kids have had this issue before. It's not health to either have not enough time to eat or stuff their faces under the pressure of time

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Patty Sweeney
9 years ago

When I was in school our lunch was an hour. Time to eat and time to play. What ever happened to that. I would think as a teacher they would be all for this as well.

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Ariel Erlenbach
9 years ago

30 minute lunch minimum!

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Jamie PPaw · petition starter
9 years ago

I will do that! If you're concerned about this with your child's school you can take steps now to address it. I would start by having your child take note of when they sit down to eat, and when they are asked to clean up to go. Keep track of dates and times if you can.

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Elizabeth Delano
9 years ago

My kids go to Clear Lake Elementary and I also think their lunch is too short! Lunch should be before recess so kids have a choice to take more time at lunch if need be and it just cuts a little into their recess.

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Luis G
9 years ago

Can you inform us of the future of this petition so we may start one at the Mount Vernon school district as well. TY

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Erika
9 years ago

Had the same problem at Mt View Elementary in White Center. Kids shouldn't be rushed to eat, but rather taught to savor and enjoy their food.

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Krystal middleton
9 years ago

They get more time than that in jail to eat..

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Renee'
9 years ago Featured

My HS student skips lunch because he said by the time he gets through the line he has no time to eat. My 6th grader complains he's hungry due to not having enough time to eat. My kindergartener comes home with a couple bites taken from her food because they say it's time to go. ( her words)

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Anonymous
9 years ago

The entire Sedro Woolley school district has this problem and it is unacceptable!

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Ginger Cutler-Campbell
9 years ago

my son (6) comes home every day with almost his entire lunch because he doesn't get much time to eat. he doesn't get home until after 4pm

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Anonymous
9 years ago

I completely agree!!

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Samantha Carlson
9 years ago Featured

I have a 1st grader at Big Lake Elementary, we LOVE this school, have no complaints really, BUT our child HAS came to us multiple times asking for a lunch box because IF she gets hot lunch she has NO time to eat it.

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Anonymous
9 years ago

Children need more than 10 minutes to eat their lunch!

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Jeremy Steinsiek
9 years ago

I feel that if the law says we are required to have a 30 minute lunch for our jobs, then our children should have at LEAST a 30 minute lunch in school. 10 minutes is a ridiculously short amount of time to expect kids (or even many adults) to eat their lunch.

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Moni Zok
9 years ago

Bitte gebt den Kindern mehr Zeit für eine vernünftige Mittagspause

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Rhea Holms
9 years ago

Ten minutes is ridiculous to expect anyone to be able to eat lunch. Kids need at least a half an hour to an hour.

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Jennifer Moore
9 years ago

Time management skills are important, and taking away lunch and recess time is the easy way out. If the school day isn't progressing as the administrators intended, it needs to be their job to fix that problem. Rushing my kids through lunch and taking away recess is not acceptable. Figure out what the problem is and fix it.