Title: Kids Who Are Time-Crunched At School Lunch Toss More And Eat Less : The Salt : NPR
Headings: Kids Who Are Time-Crunched At School Lunch Toss More And Eat Less
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Kids Who Are Time-Crunched At School Lunch Toss More And Eat Less
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Content: Some Salt readers have told us in comments that longer lines may be behind another trend in the school cafeteria: fewer students are buying lunch. As we recently reported, the number of students who pay full price for school meals declined by 1.6 million, or about 5 percent, in recent years. After we posted that story on Facebook, many of our followers told us that long lines and short meal times were a significant factor in why their children were now brown-bagging it. Brenna Zesiger D'Ambrosio is a Chicago writer and mom with two children in the city's public elementary schools. She says in her kids' schools, many students opt out of buying school lunch due to time constraints. " They have 15 minutes max for lunch and the line for school lunch takes half of that," she told us via Facebook. " My elementary students cannot eat fast enough and end up hungry (and distracted) later in the day if they choose the school option." So for her child who is a particularly slow eater, D'Ambrosio says she always packs a lunch from home. school lunch
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