Here is a difference:
40 to 50 years ago went I went to Public school we had maybe about eight different main items like turkey, baked chicken, fish sticks, mock chicken leg (still don't know what that meat was), meatloaf, cheese on a bun, hamburgers. One one was offered per day. It was served with a starch like mashed potatoes or baked fries, a vegetable, white milk, and jello, or applesauce, or fruit. The most wonderful desserts every day. We had 15 minute recess twice a day and 1 hour for lunch. We ate and we went outside for at least 30 minutes of lunch. NO SNACKS. Nothing was fried.
With my children who have been in school for the past 17 years they were encouraged to bring snack thru 5th grade. One child in 1st grade had a teacher that had them eat snack at 10:45 and they went to lunch at 11:45. Whenever I went to school to eat lunch with my kids, I watched many kids barely eat. I think because they all had morning snack. My kids started school at 8:50 and the reason for morning snack was because the school felt some kids did not eat breakfast so they should have snack. Lunch was 40 minutes with 15-20 minutes standing in line, 15 minutes mandatory to eat and about 10-15 minutes for the playground plus one 15 minute recess a day in elementary school. Some type of pizza is served once a week. Nothing is fried. Dessert is served once a month.
Kids need more playground time especially when by the time they get dropped off from the bus it is dark. Every sport my children were involved in until age 12 had sign up sheets for snack and juice for practice and after the game. The moms revolted and said let's stop snacks since practice and games were right before dinner or right after dinner.
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