2) Lunch schedule is not reasonable in many schools. Some students have lunch at 10:30 and some other students have lunch at 2:30. What are the procedures the school system is taking to solve this unreasonable lunch schedule?
3) How many schools eat lunch outside the 11:00-1:00 time window?
While we have been unable to locate any list/log that shows how many schools eat outside an 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. timeframe, for reference, lunch periods are determined by individual schools as a function of enrollment. Per the School Management and Instructional Leadership Office, although the majority of our elementary students across the school system do eat lunch between the hours of 11 a.m. and 1 p.m., the number of students in a grade level coupled with the available cafeteria space typically prevents a school from being able to serve lunch to more than one grade level at a time. Each of our elementary schools provides lunch for students in grades kindergarten through five. Therefore, most schools need to have six separate lunch shifts. Lunch shifts are 30 minutes in length. As a result, only four lunch shifts can be held between the hours of 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Providing lunch to a larger group of students can create potentially unsafe environments with overcrowding in the cafeteria. For these reasons, at most schools two lunch shifts will extend beyond the 11 am to 1 pm window. In addition, all high schools begin their first shift at 10:10 a.m. and the last shift ends at 12:20 p.m. in order to accommodate four shifts and the Applications and Research Laboratory schedule.