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While ten minutes seems like too little, my elementary school lunch was 20-30 minutes and all my memories of it were that I had an abundance of time. They had t
by boomboomsubban 3y ago
While ten minutes seems like too little, my elementary school lunch was 20-30 minutes and all my memories of it were that I had an abundance of time. They had to force us to stay at lunch longer as the teachers needed more time to eat before going outside to oversee recess.
- internetter 3y agoI assume this includes recess
- boomboomsubban 3y agoRecess followed lunch, and if you finished lunch early you could go out early. I want to say they mandated fifteen minutes at lunch, with fifty minutes combined between the two, but my memories of decades ago aren't that good.
- WarOnPrivacy 3y agoMy distant decades mirror yours and I just recalled we also had playground time before class. At least 10 min. Maybe while waiting for buses to roll in. That generation of adults seemed to understand that kids need low/no-adult play time.
- lupire 3y ago10 minutes for a child size lunch isn't a short time for the average child. But some kids are fussier eaters. The meals are portion controlled, so kids aren't loading up to avoid going back for seconds.