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Brian Marick (marick@mstdn.social)'s status on Friday, 17-Jan-2025 08:33:49 JST Brian Marick

The state of Washington (USA) is debating a bill that would require some schools to increase their "lunch hour" to 20 "seated" minutes. WTF?
https://www.king5.com/article/news/investigations/investigators/washington-considers-minimum-lunch-time-for-school-kids/281-c40cedc7-a50d-458c-a9fc-4eb88de7b400
My son (born '95) had "about an hour" for lunch. Has that gone away, nationwide? Jesus Christ on a pogo stick.
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1. 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.
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  Miakoda (hellomiakoda@pdx.social)'s status on Friday, 17-Jan-2025 22:28:28 JST Miakoda
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  Need to get them kids ready for the workplace! 💔
  
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