I guess tge weather makes it impossible for the kids to eat outside? Here everyone eats outside with a duty teacher and after 25 minutes they are allowed to go and play or they can keep eating? Or the kids who bring their own lunches could eat in the classrooms which is what happens here when it is too cold or wet.
No, it's the welfare system not the weather. Instead of giving parents money to buy stuff for their kids, it's preferred to cook a dreadful plate of slop and serve it to them, which necessitates a cafeteria style area.
There's no indoor play area for cold or wet weather, which is another effect of having free and reduced lunches instead of welfare is that the schools are large but to save on cafeteria staff they serve lunch in shifts, so playing is also in shifts. The gym cannot fit the whole school for wet weather play and is not available anyway - while the first graders are having lunch the fifth graders are having PE in the gym. And that's why you have to move on after your eating time is up. The next grade needs to come in.
Knittingmama, if you add five minutes to every shift in the cafeteria the K kids would be having lunch before 11. It's like trying to start high school after seven means elementary then starts at ten because of the buses.
