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Post by booboobrewer on Jun 6, 2010 20:01:37 GMT -5
Did you all have "recess" in 6th/7th grade? I didn't. Like, Kristy and everyone go to the playground in Great Idea, right? After they finish lunch. If we were done eating early we could leave the cafeteria and stand around, or hang out on benches, but we didn't go play a game of ball or anything. And this time between lunch and the next bell wasn't called recess.
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Post by celaeno on Jun 6, 2010 23:06:51 GMT -5
^ When I was in middle school (5th to 8th grade, 1995 to 1998) we didn't have any kind of recess either. Maybe it has to do with the time period? Like, I know that changes in schools in America can be sort of like fads (for example, most schools will be teaching math in one certain style, then ten years later almost all schools have adopted a new style for teaching math, etc), so maybe in 1986, it was normal for middle school/junior highs to have some sort of recess break. And then maybe some studies came out indicating that there shouldn't be recesses or something, and by the mid nineties, most middle school/junior highs had cut out any kind of recess break? I don't know, that would be my best guess though.
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Post by anzuhana on Jun 7, 2010 9:49:17 GMT -5
When I was in junior high school, after eating lunch, the students were allowed to go outside and play with other students or just hang around, provided that the weather was good.
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Post by candykane on Jun 10, 2010 16:31:24 GMT -5
Did you all have "recess" in 6th/7th grade? I didn't. Like, Kristy and everyone go to the playground in Great Idea, right? After they finish lunch. If we were done eating early we could leave the cafeteria and stand around, or hang out on benches, but we didn't go play a game of ball or anything. And this time between lunch and the next bell wasn't called recess. I had recess in 6th grade, because where I went 6th grade was still elementary school. 7th grade was the start of jr. high and no recess. Our 6th grade recess was separate from lunchtime. |
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Post by Honeybee on Jun 12, 2010 2:19:40 GMT -5
I had recess, in 7th (I went to a Christian school) After lunch, hang out in the classrooms or go to other different class rooms, to hang out. Some, even go outside, to play. The Christian school, I went to didn't have hot lunches everyday. (it was very rare.) Like every once a month. For pizza, pop & chips or hot dog, chips, & pop. I think, they did tacos, & other hot food. You had bring your own lunch, at home. (If, you want milk or chocolate milk. paid like a 25 cents or 50 cents.)
When, I went to HS. (public.) Their was A, B, & C lunches. (i think, my lunch time, was C) I usually, didn't buy hot lunches. I bring lunch, from home. (Someday's, i'll have a hot lunch.) We're tight on money. I like home lunches, better.
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Post by Amalia on Sept 15, 2013 0:40:15 GMT -5
I never figured out why Kristy kept making fun of the school lunches. From what remember, they sounded good. It just seems that all she needed to do was stir it and it will become appetizing.
And if peanut butter sandwiches was the main course of a Connecticut school lunch in Stoneybrook (I for reason remember reading that in the earlier books), why wouldn't they revert back to that if they found the food disgusting?
From what I remember of lunches in middle and high school, hot lunches were great. A lot of people (like me) got free ones, and I would pig out. It was like eating as much fast food as you want. You could have as many condiments as you wanted and if the food didn't taste that good, just do what Uncle Joe did: drown it in hot sauce.
And in my middle school, most of the people that brought lunches from home preferred the school lunches because they were hot meals.
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Post by celaeno on Sept 15, 2013 11:09:07 GMT -5
^lol, I agree. As someone who had to bring lunch when I was in school, the hot lunches sounded good to me.  Making fun of school lunches seems to me like it's done more because it's a tradition, not because the students actually find it that much grosser than what they normally eat. |
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Post by valuemeal2 on Sept 25, 2013 2:22:37 GMT -5
We had "brunch" in middle school (6th-8th grade) at like 10am, and then "lunch" was when you ate, and the time allotted was for an hour or something so you got to hang out after you were done eating. We definitely did not have that weird separate lunch period thing; that always confused me haha. In middle school (did I mention my school's name was SMS, just like the BSC? Only my S was for Sunnyvale, but I thought I was so cool to go to SMS), most kids brought their lunch or went through the snack line. There was an inside cafeteria line that was for "losers" (woe be to the kid who had to go through that line for the hot lunch) and an outside snack line that sold Cup O Noodles, cookies, etc. For $3 you could get a Cup O Noodles, three cookies (and these were the most d**n delicious cookies in the entire world; I still have yet to find some that rival the amazingness of the SMS dollar cookies) and a juice can, so that was my usual lunch when my mom forgot to make one.
I never figured the BSC girls wasted their lunches-- I figured they went "ewww gross" but wound up eating it anyway. I'm really against wasting food, so I hope that's what they did! That's what I used to do in elementary school-- even when the hot lunch was gross, I still ate it because I was hungry and I paid for it.
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Post by sarish on Sept 25, 2013 12:26:55 GMT -5
When I was the girls age - 8th grade, my lunch started at 1:45. And it was ridiculous - we had the LAST lunch time of the day - and it was such a weird type of scheduling - like...we went to 6th period - were there for 15 minutes, then went to lunch, and then back to 6th period for the rest of it. Then 7th period. And then home. Three people from our team fainted that year from the lunch being so far from breakfast - including me.
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Post by wenonah4th on Sept 25, 2013 12:27:08 GMT -5
I agree, valuemeal, that they ate it anyway.
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Post by sparklymouse on Sept 25, 2013 15:43:14 GMT -5
The SMS lunches didn't sound like the typical hot lunches of today's schools (which apparently are a lot like fast food in nutritional value). They always sounded like weird casseroles or mystery meats with funky gravy or sauces.
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Post by scrounge on Sept 25, 2013 18:51:34 GMT -5
The SMS lunches didn't sound like the typical hot lunches of today's schools (which apparently are a lot like fast food in nutritional value). They always sounded like weird casseroles or mystery meats with funky gravy or sauces. This. When I was a kid we lived in a small town and your choices for school lunch were as follows: eat it or don't. You got a tray with the day's entree and a couple of sides. We didn't have a salad bar or condiments (maybe one pack of ketchup thrown on your tray if it was a french fry day), and kids with food restrictions had to bring their own lunch because there were no substitutions and no vegetarian options. Some of the entrees were better than others but nobody liked the "Salisbury steak" covered in institutional gravy and that's what I think of when I read about mystery meat in the books. |
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Post by supprazz on Sept 25, 2013 19:39:01 GMT -5
In middle school we got regular recesses and lunch. In 7th grade and 8th grade, we just got morning recess and lunch, no afternoon recess.
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Post by valuemeal2 on Sept 26, 2013 4:23:06 GMT -5
The SMS lunches didn't sound like the typical hot lunches of today's schools (which apparently are a lot like fast food in nutritional value). They always sounded like weird casseroles or mystery meats with funky gravy or sauces. This. When I was a kid we lived in a small town and your choices for school lunch were as follows: eat it or don't. You got a tray with the day's entree and a couple of sides. We didn't have a salad bar or condiments (maybe one pack of ketchup thrown on your tray if it was a french fry day), and kids with food restrictions had to bring their own lunch because there were no substitutions and no vegetarian options. Some of the entrees were better than others but nobody liked the "Salisbury steak" covered in institutional gravy and that's what I think of when I read about mystery meat in the books. That was how our hot lunches worked in elementary school too (middle school was similar I think, but I never got the hot lunch in middle school). The best was that square pizza that would always get soaked with the juice from the fruit cocktail... my "boyfriend" in first grade and I always went back into the cafeteria at the end of lunch to get a second slice! And a carton of chocolate milk to drink, natch. I would love to taste some of that square pizza again, even though it probably isn't as good as I remember. Ooooh... grilled cheese sandwich day was good too. And turkey dinner. But god help it when you forget to bring your lunch on fish nuggets day and you have to get the hot lunch... ughhh. |
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Post by sparklymouse on Sept 26, 2013 9:34:55 GMT -5
^I think everyone thinks of square pizza when they think back on hot lunches! I always think of the taco salad, which in my district was a handful of Fritos, an ice cream scooper full of Manwich-type meat, and some shredded cheese and lettuce. I didn't particularly like it, but it's one of my strongest hot lunch memories.
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