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In my kids' school they have running club 3 times a week, which starts right after lunch.
My kids take running club very seriously, and run about 4-5 miles in each session, and they're not the only ones.
I do not understand how school can schedule running club right after lunch time. Kids that run either eat very little or skip lunch altogether, going without food for 7 hours.
Is there any law or guidelines that I can present to school to convince them to change running club time?
I don't know of a law that would apply to this situation.
When my kids did running club, it was after school. They may be trying to avoid alternate pick-up issues, but you could start by meeting with the people who organized it and ask them questions about the rationale for having it after lunch.
Do any of the other parents have similar concerns? Like Birdie said, get a group together or email the organizers to discuss how you can resolve these issues.
Any exercise should not be done with fresh food in stomach.
Then again, no one says you must eat per specific schedule, instead of following the natural body requirement for food. people who say you do, brought country to obesity epidemic.
I am 64 and I can go hours without food, when I am really involved in something physical. No harm will happen to kid that has stomach half the size of adult anyway.
Any exercise should not be done with fresh food in stomach.
Then again, no one says you must eat per specific schedule, instead of following the natural body requirement for food. people who say you do, brought country to obesity epidemic.
I am 64 and I can go hours without food, when I am really involved in something physical. No harm will happen to kid that has stomach half the size of adult anyway.
Since you haven't been in school for 50 years, in most schools, the lunch period is the only opportunity for a kid to eat during the day. Most students aren't going to be allowed to eat in class if they're hungry earlier or later.
Last edited by fleetiebelle; 09-12-2019 at 12:51 PM..
Clubs are generally sponsored by a teacher, who likely has only one tiny slot of free space in their schedule.
So, running club. My question is how is this different from PE? In all the schools I have taught in, PE and athletics classes are scheduled throughout the school day, including directly after lunch. Now, as a human being, I understand I certainly don't feel like running 5 miles after eating a big meal. But will the admin view it differently? Especially for a volunteer club?
Another option you may get more headway with might be for running club kids to do running club, then to be provided 5-10 minutes to eat lunch after (taken out of running club time.) This would depend on some factors, though. Do most of those kids brown-bag it or eat in the cafeteria? (It would work for the former, not the latter.)
Running club in elementary school right after lunch
In my kids' school they have running club 3 times a week, which starts right after lunch.
My kids take running club very seriously, and run about 4-5 miles in each session, and they're not the only ones.
I do not understand how school can schedule running club right after lunch time. Kids that run either eat very little or skip lunch altogether, going without food for 7 hours.
Is there any law or guidelines that I can present to school to convince them to change running club time?
What school district is this that has an elementary school running club? I 100% doubt that this is true. There is no way in the world that any elementary school, public or private will have students running 4-5 miles three times per week. It just isnt true. This is fake.
Any exercise should not be done with fresh food in stomach.
No need to worry about this. The OP is not telling us a truthful story. There are no elementary schools that have "running clubs" where students (grade 5 and below) are pulled out of regular class three to four times per week to go running for 4-5 miles.
OP does not seem to be a native English speaker. Maybe they mean 4-5 laps rather than 4-5 miles.
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