<p>My S just received his schedule for his senior year. He will start school at 8:00, have 2 hour-long classes, and then have lunch at 10 A.M. After lunch, he will then have the remainder of his classes and finish his day at 3 P.M.–except when he has sports practice when he goes until 5. I guess it could be worse; at least he does have a lunch period. I would not want to be his last period teacher because he is a real bear when he gets hungry.</p>
<p>It’s strange isn’t it! My son had such a schedule last year except he took a “Z” class which started at 6:30 am and went to 7:30 and our school officially begins at 7:40 or so and gets out at 2:40 so the 10:00 “lunch” was more in the middle of the day. For the sports kids, mine bring a snack bag with a piece of fruit, granola bar or PBJ, whatever they can muster up in our kitchen to eat after school or sometimes they pick something up at the cafeteria during lunch to stash and eat before practice.</p>
<p>My kids are at a school where “junk food” is not sold at school. Many kids have mandatory sports from 3-5pm, and they are usually starving by then. Two kids decided they would start a business of selling some food and drinks to people after school. Their business plan was to bring the bulk stuff their parents have bought from Costco and re-sell them at school at a much higher price. The problem was they never told their moms. It took them a while before they figured out what their sons were doing.</p>
<p>I would give him a light breakfast so he could eat a big meal at lunch. I would also pack a sandwich (full meal) for him when he has sports practice. It’s too long for him not to have anything between 10-6pm. </p>
<p>I used to pack an Ensure (power drink) in my purse when my work schedule was hectic. I would drink it between meetings and it would hold me for 2-3 hours.</p>
<p>Well, on the plus side, HS kids are usually starving by 10:00.</p>
<p>DD’s last period teacher allowed small snacks for that reason. The class all had early lunch and blood sugar plummet at the end of the day. Granola bars, cheese sticks, anything non-messy and easily consumed, along with water, were allowed. Smart teacher.</p>
<p>My D has the last period lunch - which is 12:50! School starts at 7:20. The HS has 4 periods of lunch. The first one used to start at 9:50, but the state decided no lunch could be before 10 AM, so now they are all shifted later. I think one of her teachers will let her eat a small snack in class.</p>
<p>She will have practice every day after school until 5:15 also - so I’ll be packing 2 lunches and a snack.</p>
<p>D has a very late lunch scheduled. But it doesn’t matter, she eats something at every break or she is hungry. </p>
<p>When she gets home from practice at 6 or 7, she is a starving animal… it’s ugly if dinner isn’t shortly on the table. Frankly, I don’t know how she manages to sleep at night, seems like she needs fuel every 2 hours no matter what.</p>
<p>Our sons went to a school with scheduled break/snack time for everyone, kindergarten thru 12th grade, at 10 a.m. At an all boys’ school, it made a difference in reducing low blood sugar-related behaviors.</p>
<p>Some of these stories seem outrageous! Lunch at 9:50? I have a friend whose 9th grader has a 5:30 a.m. bus pick-up time (school starts at 7:00 a.m.). I think prisons might have to show more consideration for basic human needs than public high schools do.</p>
<p>Why is this? If we can’t have a school of 4000 kids without making some of them eat lunch before 10 a.m., then why not just decide that high schools should not be that large…</p>
<p>Our h.s is very overcrowded. Sch. starts at 7:15. First lunch starts before 11:00. Last lunch ends just before 1:00. Sch. is out at 2:00. </p>
<p>The assigned lunch period is based on what classroom you were in during lunch.
You might have A lunch in the Fall then D lunch in the spring because you class schedule changed.</p>
<p>My S’s always hated D lunch because the cafetera was often running low on food by that point so they didn’t get as much on their plate.</p>