Starving for Time

[Lily]

This year my school cut back lunch time to 20 minutes. Our math teacher always teaches a couple minutes overboard. Lets say 3 minutes including walking to the bathrooms. Now we go to the bathrooms tht takes about 4 minutes. Now we go in to the lunch line and get food we are already sheduled to be the last class to come in for our grade.Now we only have about ten minutes to eat lunch.The time they took out of lunch is this stupid :( advisement thing where the lessons are always imcomplete and too short so we always read at the end.
Now my stomach always hurts during class. This is NOT helping me do good on tests.

HELP

[thewake]

We've always had 20 minutes lunch since elementary school. Hard on the intestines, but you get used to it.

[liq3]

Lily Wrote:Now my stomach always hurts during class.

10 minutes is plenty of time to eat a meal. You're stomach aches are more likely a result of poor diet. You could start to improve it by not eating the crap at your school.

You might also be getting stressed out, which can also cause stomach aches. Stress has this lovely habit of causing negative physical side effects, such as stomach aches.

[Fire Elf]

20 Minutes? Seriously, WTF? If they make it that short, I wouldn't be suprised if the school decided to do away with the lunch period entirely.* With how long the lines are, or how long the line to the nearest McDonalds or corner store is here, no-one would be able to eat anything here during such a short lunch period.

*something a school I previously went to was actually considering. I left the next year, being in 8th grade and all, so there's no telling if they did it or not...

[Puchiko]

Wow, we get 45 minutes, plus two ten minute breaks, so it totals 65 minutes. It's plenty of time to eat and study.

Twenty minutes is way too little. I suggest you take this up with your administration. Read the handbook (yeah, I know US schools make them fairly thick to prevent students from being aware of their rights, but do read it) and find out who's responsible for addressing your concerns. Tell that dude exactly what you told us.

[Milk2Go]

My lunch period is about 50 minutes.

[Lily]

Thanks for all the great ideas.
I got fed up with the food already so im eating from home.

A couple of days ago it was early release and i said this on the morning news.

Lunch Choices For Today are:
None It is saxs of lunches.

The lunch ladies got slightly ruffled but it was worth it!

[Fire Elf]

Puchiko Wrote:Twenty minutes is way too little. I suggest you take this up with your administration. Read the handbook (yeah, I know US schools make them fairly thick to prevent students from being aware of their rights, but do read it) and find out who's responsible for addressing your concerns. Tell that dude exactly what you told us.

This.

BTW, my lunch period is 55 minutes.

[monkey]

WE have 30 minutes maybe 20, Not sure. But is enough time to eat and play some 4 square.

[Trar]

Just like other unfortunate people, my lunch period is 20 minutes, it was 30 tho. They let us have extra time to eat if we're really late or something. Good thing i'm usually there first and usually finished 7 minutes later!

[MM]

I've had 21 minutes precisely for lunch for my entire high school career. But, if you subtract time because of the gigantic lunch lines, you really only get like 10-15 minutes to eat.

[Aviator]

We've got an entire period to eat (55 minutes) - which is good because I think without it I'd go mad.

Take it up with the administration though. That's rediculous. They should provide a reasonable amount of time for lunch. Ask around and see if you can get a bunch of other students to coomplain with you, and send around a petition. Just pass it around the lunchroom with a post it that says "Return to _your name here_". I'm sure you'll end up with most of the school signing it - if you can get enough signitures to start with.

Thats the problem with petitions. No one wants to sign it (in my district) because they feel like they'll get in trouble. Darn administration.

Puchiko was right about the handbook thing. There are a ton of interesting tid bits in there that you can use to argue your side. In fact, also check your districts website. I know my district has a TON of extra rules, procedures and laws that they have to follow posted on an obscure link on their site. It outlines the rules that even teachers and deans have to follow - so you might dig up extra information. And then, after all of that, continue searching the web for information about eating healthy and stuff. If you can find some research done on how long it takes to eat a meal, and any damaging side effects from wolfing it down too fast, they'll freak out and be more willing to change it. They wouldn't want to get sued.

Good luck!

[Faby]

Lol, we only have 5 minutes to move from class to class, and that alone takes up all the time. No lunch-breaks.

[over_9000]

take time to eat. If you're late, well fuck it you're late. Tell your parents that you need enough time to eat properly and that you will not stuff yourself with food just so you could make it to class on time. You should enjoy your meals. Consider your meals more important than classes.

[J4mz69]

Lol, we get 20 minutes to eat also. And, because I'm a freshman, I have to be at the back of the fucking line... The line has been so long that at times I've only had 3 minutes till lunch was over when I got my food. Recently I just decided to avoid the whole mess and just listen to music in the library.

Let us know if anything changes... seems like you're making a stand already, maybe the "Man" might listen for once.