My understanding is that not all children can have their parents volunteer at school so it is viewed as unfair. That is also one of the reasons they got rid of mystery reader. However, they still have field trip chaperones so... unless D65 canceled all field trips... I don't know the status.
I'm not sure if it's specifically each individual kids' parents ability to come or just that some schools inevitably have more volunteers than others, so when they haven't had hired lunch supervisors, it presented an "advantage". Those lunchrooms are pure chaos! I've done the lunch volunteer thing before, and I can assure you I spent most of the time helping out kids I didn't know, not chatting with my kid or friends.
I will say, there is built in inequity by having some kids essentially forced to eat whatever's on the school lunch menu. It means they have less time to eat, since they have to wait in line, and I can't imagine they're able to do as well in the afternoon when they don't eat anything substantial because they don't like what's on the menu. Just might be good food for thought (swear no pun intended) for those of us whose kids are fortunate enough to have a packed lunch daily or to be able to choose the days they want school lunch based on things they'll actually eat.
I thought the most equitable thing that the District did was during COVID they had federal free lunch for all kids, so like every kid in the District had the same lunch. That was such a burden off of parents and was a real equalizer among the kids. I never understood why the board or state didn't even bother to consider continuing that program (other states did, like Minnesota)
This is a new one to me and I thought I'd seen everything. Dumb question, what's the theory for why lunchroom volunteers are inequitable?
My understanding is that not all children can have their parents volunteer at school so it is viewed as unfair. That is also one of the reasons they got rid of mystery reader. However, they still have field trip chaperones so... unless D65 canceled all field trips... I don't know the status.
I'm not sure if it's specifically each individual kids' parents ability to come or just that some schools inevitably have more volunteers than others, so when they haven't had hired lunch supervisors, it presented an "advantage". Those lunchrooms are pure chaos! I've done the lunch volunteer thing before, and I can assure you I spent most of the time helping out kids I didn't know, not chatting with my kid or friends.
I will say, there is built in inequity by having some kids essentially forced to eat whatever's on the school lunch menu. It means they have less time to eat, since they have to wait in line, and I can't imagine they're able to do as well in the afternoon when they don't eat anything substantial because they don't like what's on the menu. Just might be good food for thought (swear no pun intended) for those of us whose kids are fortunate enough to have a packed lunch daily or to be able to choose the days they want school lunch based on things they'll actually eat.
I thought the most equitable thing that the District did was during COVID they had federal free lunch for all kids, so like every kid in the District had the same lunch. That was such a burden off of parents and was a real equalizer among the kids. I never understood why the board or state didn't even bother to consider continuing that program (other states did, like Minnesota)