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<p>Not <em>all</em>. And some hs students schedule classes at lunchtime too.</p>
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<p>In your dreams.</p>
<p>My kids never had the advantage of any such thing. My son, who was in a regular high school program, also couldn’t eat in class. My daughter, however, who was in an IB program where the relationships between the teachers and students were not adversarial, could eat in many of her classes. The teachers did it, too.</p>
<p>We have no recess after 5th grade, but everyone in hs gets lunch. It’s only 20 minutes, though. Everyone takes a full schedule of 7 classes - no study halls at our public hs! - but 4th period is 100 minutes long. Every 4th period class goes to the cafeteria at some point - English classes go the first 20 minutes, math the 2nd, gym the last 20, etc. 20 minutes isn’t long enough, but at least this way everyone does get lunch.</p>
<p>As someone who works in the schools, I can tell you that it simply isn’t possible for everyone in the building to eat at 11:30 or 12:00. Most of our elementary schools want each grade to eat separately, which means 6 lunch periods. There’s only one dining hall per building, so someone’s gotta get early lunch and someone’s gonna eat late. Elementary kids do usually get snacktime, though.</p>
<p>What I think is ridiculous is our middle schools hours running from 7:20 am to 1:50 pm! Most of these kids are standing at a bus stop BEFORE 7 am, and who wants a bunch of 13 year olds on the street before 2pm every day? How much algebra do you think they’re soaking up at 7:25 am? But it all has to do with busses and money - we have to re-use the same busses over and over each day for each school level. The high school is hardly any better, it runs 7:35 - 2:05. A couple years ago they tried to back everyone up to a more reasonable time, and the elementary parents screamed that they couldn’t possibly have their kid’s bus come at 8:30 am because they had to be at work by then. I wish they’d remember that very soon their darling 6 year old will be 16 and will not be getting an ideal education because they’ll be sleep deprived from getting up at 5:45 am every day to get to school on time, so that the elementary kids with the vocal parents can get THEIR school at an ideal time.</p>
<p>My 12 year old son is 6’ and weighs 200 lbs (plays football on the 7th and 8th grade teams at his middle school) - he still loves the tickle back rub and I won’t turn it down as I know it won’t last forever. His older brother still gets “babied” by me when I buy his favorite Sushi or Mountain Dew as a treat for him. But things definitely change as the boys get more and more independent so I take every advantage to spend alone time with each of them. They don’t even realize they’re being ‘babied.’ It’s just the way Mom takes care of them and that’s a good thing!</p>
<p>There is def. no recess here and has not been since 5th grade, (middle school starts in 6th grade). I drop him off at school at 7:30 a.m. and school goes to 3:30 p.m., so eating after 1 p.m. does concern me, however, as someone stated, there is not much one can do as a parent. Lunches start early and end late. I am so afraid that he will get dehydrated, (it has been very hot here), as he is not allowed to carry a even a water bottle to class. That ended with going to middle school too. He could have one in elementary school. I am trying to encourage him to purchase 2 drinks with his lunch, (one a water). I am not sure if he is doing it, but he says that he is. He does not love milk, but he loves juice, (which does not love him to much lately…acne sprouting up here and there…lol). My son is 13, 5’8" (may be 5’9" by now, lol), and weighs somewhere between 180 and 185 lbs.</p>