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Nearly 20 Washington school districts spoke in opposition of the state's mandatory lunchtime length proposal, many saying it was too much time and too costly of a change. In November, the KING 5 Investigators found most of the 31 districts surveyed had schools with lunch times of 20 minutes. However, those lunch periods typically include the time a child stands in line waiting for a hot meal and clean up time. With increased use of free and reduced-price lunches in many districts, lines are longer now and many kids have far fewer than 20 minutes to eat their lunch. Two districts, Stanwood-Camano and Everett, had schools with lunch periods only 15 minutes long.