Brown-bagging, or no lunch at all
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- September
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I’ve packed lunches for my three children pretty much from the time they were in kindergarten. If I have this figured correctly, I’ve been making school lunches almost continuously since 1989 (not to mention for day-care, but we won’t go there).
With school starting up again and my youngest starting her junior year in high school, I’m back packing brown bags.
Or not.
“Oh,” my youngest said, eyeing the stuff I was lugging out of my trunk this past weekend after a trip to the grocery store. “I don’t have lunch this semester. I thought you remembered.” Considering that this is the child who only eats packaged foods, nothing I had brought in would perish in, say, the next century or three. But I figured I ought, as a parent, suggest that my youngest consider bringing food to school just in case she got hungry. After all, unlike her sibs, she doesn’t come straight home after classes. She has a very full after-school schedule that will only get worse as the year progresses.
She told me that she would have to apply for some sort of official permission to eat in class, and that some teachers don’t allow it even with the proper forms filled out.
I’m tempted to call my school district to get the rights of it. It’s amazing how stuff gets garbled between this and that.
In the meantime, I’m putting a few snacks in her backpack “just in case” she gets a free minute between classes or the odd free period at 10 a.m.
I’m thinking this will be a long semester.
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on Tuesday, September 2nd, 2008 at 12:29 pm by Randi Weiner.
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That is SCARY. I, too, would be lobbing in some phone calls. And packing MREs in her backpack!