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Elphaba, did you go to my elementary school? Because that's exactly what we did! Though there were days the lights did no good.
By the way, at my school, the teachers ate lunch separately and administrators monitored the lunch room. This would be people like library assisstants, the assisstant principal, or even the principal. Presumably, they'd already had a chance to eat.
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quote:Originally posted by bab5nutz: I take it that children in the States do not eat outside. When I was at school, kids ate their lunches outside. There was an area you were assigned to, and you went there, and had to stay there for 15 minutes - you weren't allowed to get up or move around during this period. Most children brought packed lunches. I usually had sandwiches, a drink and a piece of fruit. You could order a pie for lunch in the mornings, but that was the only alternative. The only time you ate your lunch inside, was on rainy days.
How cold does it get there during the school year? In much of the US, for much of the school year, temperatures would be significantly below freezing.
Some kids pack lunches, but many purchase lunches at school. Some are provided reduced-price or free lunches funded by the Federal government.
In my city, not that cold by comparison with many places in the States. Some of the nights can be pretty cold - but it very seldom freezes during the day in winter, and we get about one snowfall a season, if that. That said, I can remember shivering my way though many a lunch, too cold to eat properly. We don't have subsidized programmes here. If a kid does not have a lunch made for them, or has money provided so that they can buy a pie or something, then they go hungry. Again, there are some schools that have started providing fruit and milk for their students. I am not sure if this is common practice, though.
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quote:Originally posted by bab5nutz: I take it that children in the States do not eat outside. When I was at school, kids ate their lunches outside. There was an area you were assigned to, and you went there, and had to stay there for 15 minutes - you weren't allowed to get up or move around during this period. Most children brought packed lunches. I usually had sandwiches, a drink and a piece of fruit. You could order a pie for lunch in the mornings, but that was the only alternative. The only time you ate your lunch inside, was on rainy days.
In many parts of the US for most of the year that wouldn't be a viable option due to the weather--either too cold or too hot. I grew up in MN, for example, where we'd've frozen our little NFBSKs off if we had taken our lunches outside.
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The school I went to grade school at did the lights out thing, too. And if the kids at your table were too loud, you might even end up with a teacher or principal sitting with you.
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quote:The school in the OP is in Toronto, Canada - I grew up (and still live) less than 40 miles away. Things are a little different here, and teachers happen to have a fairly strong (not to mention wealthy) union, and such issues as preparation time and compensation for extra-curricular activities are right near the top of the negotiation list. I doubt they could get teachers to be lunchroom supervisors.
My dad was an teacher in Ontario. He retired 3 years ago. The teachers at his school shared lunchroom/recess duties (I belive he'd have to supervise the lunchroom once every 2 weeks, and recess one day a week? I don't recall the details). So there were no lunchroom supervisors at his school.
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quote:Originally posted by cubbie: I wonder how long the school day is for that school. When I first moved to Haslett in 5th grade, they'd divide the school into 2 lunch peroids. Depending what teacher you had for 3rd or 4th hour, you'd either have "A" lunch or "B" lunch. they did that all the way through high school.
We had the same arrangement in my high school.
However, the school in the OP is a junior school, which is kindergarten-Grade 6 IIRC, so the numbers probably don't allow for such an arrangement.
My grade school (k-8) divided up lunches by grade (three grades had lunch at a time). Then again it was a private school, so it was probably smaller than most.
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