Eating at School
Building a Furture Through Child Nutrition

During you time at school, you were able to get your food, sit down and eat it with no worriers of the time it would take for you to complete your lunch period with a full lunch. In schools this day and age, there are so many students; Your child may come home "starving." You ask your child(ren) why are they hungry, you inquire about lunch time and what they are doing during this time. You are shocked to find out that, the time allotted to them, may not be as accurate as the school may think so.

The National FoodService Management Institute The university of Mississippi was established in 1989. They did a study on Eating at school. The time, duration of service, eating, and socializing that you don't have any clue about, because you are not there with your child. Most children would be able to do anything. Service times in school can directly impact the time your child gets through the lunch line, and how much time it leaves them to socialize. In studying the high, middle, and elementary schools in WA, TX, UT, and NY; Variables such as the number of students released, time of choices to be placed by student, times and dates of lunch.

Below the chats will show in minutes how much lunch time has been crazier and crazier. The graphs show the minutes in color coordination, that some eat and some don't eat.

(http://www.schoolwellnesspolicies.org/resources/eating_at_school.pdf)

Having 2.5 minutes to 8.1 minutes for service time, You can imagine this is cut away from the rest of the lunch schedule. During the time at the table, students take to catch up with each other, eat(not digest) food. The its time for them to get up and start moving to their next class. In speaking with Alexis Hitchman,
What do you do most at lunch time?
most of my lunch period is in the lunch line, I spend maybe about 10 minutes at the table and most of that is spent talking  and socializing with other classmates. Now you have the answer to why your child comes home hungry.