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Why are you accusing that poster of lying? I, too, went to a school where everyone went home at lunch through 6th grade. Working moms had to make other arrangements. This was in a little borough in Pennsylvania. Other kids in the area went to a school where some kids went home, and others who lived a little further away, took lunch at school.
Please, I'm interested......(you'll note I asked about specifics, without these specifics then I said the story isn't true). Your entire school lived close enough to go home, eat and come back in what? 45 minutes? What other arrangements did these working mothers make?
I on occasion went home for lunch. Our back yard butted up to the school property so I was home in 5 minutes. The vast majority of the school would not have been able to do this.
Please, I'm interested......(you'll note I asked about specifics, without these specifics then I said the story isn't true). Your entire school lived close enough to go home, eat and come back in what? 45 minutes? What other arrangements did these working mothers make?
I on occasion went home for lunch. Our back yard butted up to the school property so I was home in 5 minutes. The vast majority of the school would not have been able to do this.
Here's the map: https://www.google.com/maps/place/Pa...81024d825f0644
The school served the area in red. It was a small, multi-age school. My own specific class was small, with I think 13 kids by the end of 6th grade. The classes ahead and behind me were bigger, more like 20 kids.
Grades 1-3 (later changed to 1-2 when they built an addition and added a 3rd classroom) got out at 11:30, were due back at 1 PM. Grades 4-6 (later 3-6, in two classrooms) got out at 11:45 and had to be back by 1. There weren't a lot of working moms at the time, I knew of a few. Some had grandmothers who came over at lunch. Some may have had other arrangements. Certainly by 5th or 6th grades, some kids came home to an empty house and had to fix lunch for themselves. I vaguely remember having to fix lunch for my brother and I on occasion. Most kids had no more than a 5 min walk, even if they dawdled.
(The school isn't on the map b/c it's been torn down, the victim of school consolidation. It was at 5th St. and 7th Ave.)
Here's the map: https://www.google.com/maps/place/Pa...81024d825f0644
The school served the area in red. It was a small, multi-age school. My own specific class was small, with I think 13 kids by the end of 6th grade. The classes ahead and behind me were bigger, more like 20 kids.
Grades 1-3 (later changed to 1-2 when they built an addition and added a 3rd classroom) got out at 11:30, were due back at 1 PM. Grades 4-6 (later 3-6, in two classrooms) got out at 11:45 and had to be back by 1. There weren't a lot of working moms at the time, I knew of a few. Some had grandmothers who came over at lunch. Some may have had other arrangements. Certainly by 5th or 6th grades, some kids came home to an empty house and had to fix lunch for themselves. I vaguely remember having to fix lunch for my brother and I on occasion. Most kids had no more than a 5 min walk, even if they dawdled.
(The school isn't on the map b/c it's been torn down, the victim of school consolidation. It was at 5th St. and 7th Ave.)
So they sent 1st and 2nd graders off on their own for 1 1/2 hours? Just send them off?
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So they sent 1st and 2nd graders off on their own for 1 1/2 hours? Just send them off?
Our rural school district... my son rode the bus for an hour and 10 minutes just to get to school or home....some folks just don't get that what they've experienced isn't what some of the rest of us have.
Our rural school district... my son rode the bus for an hour and 10 minutes just to get to school or home....some folks just don't get that what they've experienced isn't what some of the rest of us have.
Which is why I ask questions. Lots of kids have long bus rides. You wouldn't make them take another in the middle of the day.
So they sent 1st and 2nd graders off on their own for 1 1/2 hours? Just send them off?
Yes. Their moms or someone was at home. That's the way it was set up. And in thinking it over, I don't know why I posted that map. [MOD CUT/off topic] Just because you have no familiarity with a system like this, that doesn't mean it didn't exist.
Please, I'm interested......(you'll note I asked about specifics, without these specifics then I said the story isn't true). Your entire school lived close enough to go home, eat and come back in what? 45 minutes? What other arrangements did these working mothers make?
I on occasion went home for lunch. Our back yard butted up to the school property so I was home in 5 min utes. The vast majority of the school would not have been able to do this.
My school sent us home for lunch, too. I lived 2 blocks away from school. I think we had 1 hour to get home eat and get back to school. This was late 50s & early 60s. I moved after 4th grade to a school where we had to bring lunch and stay there all day. Schools are very different now. Don´t get why you think posters are liars. We don´t all share the same life experiences.
Could you post a link to that? I think that may be a school district's personal choice, you know, local control?
Here's an article that talks about how snack foods and a la carte foods are part of the new nutritional standards. There's a link to the standards on the page as well if you want.
Today the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced its nutrition standards for all foods sold in school outside of the federal school lunch and breakfast programs, including cafeteria “a la carte” items, vending machines, and other snack foods, and beverages. These new standards are an important step to remedy nutritional shortfalls in our nation’s children’s diets and to help address the obesity crisis.
These new nutrition standards, consistent with the U.S. Dietary Guidelines, will promote the health of all school children throughout America. “Low-income children will especially benefit from these strong standards,” said FRAC President, Jim Weill. “When peer pressure and stigma drive low-income students to purchase less healthy appealing competitive foods, instead of eating healthy school meals, they lose out nutritionally in a much bigger way than their more affluent peers, and their families lose financially,” said Weill.
No, you should not outright just take everything a person says as factual. Has sites like this not shown you this? People say things that are false all the time. I asked for clarification as to how every kid in a school was able to walk home from school for lunch. I said unless it was a very small school it couldn't happen. You said you attended a very small school.
And yet you STILL questioned it, even when I posted a map and showed where the school was! It made me feel stupid. Numerous other people here have said they came home for lunch as well. Just because you never heard of it, that doesn't mean it didn't happen.
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