<p>That's dedication! Your swim team must be like the best in the nation.</p>
<p>Swimming is just ridiculously intense. You have to work a lot to be good. When I swam (first 2 years of high school) we had morning practice from 5:30-7:00ish and PM practice from 3:00 until 5:30. During break there was even longer practices. And we were not close to being the best in our state.</p>
<p>By the time 2:30 arrives, he is starving, which isn't good because he has to run several miles for cross country/track after school. The other negative about our lunch hour is that if you have a lab, and my son has every year, you have to miss one half of the lunch to perform the lab. This occurs on a weekly basis, couple of times a week.</p>
<p>what do you mean 'lab'? don't they just put that in as a regular class?</p>
<p>dang, represent, texas publics! 7:30-2:30. ridiculous.</p>
<p>We have labs too, but they're after school.
It's an extra 2 hours, and I hate when it falls on days that I already have biology.
Because then including lab, I have a total of 3.5 hours of bio in one day =(</p>
<p>Sometimes, my son has skipped lunch because of a lab, and then, had a cross country race right after school, so he couldn't eat before running either. Those days are rough. I really don't think the schools should cut into lunch time. He can't eat during a lab either because food isn't allowed in that room.</p>
<p>Never had a class cut into lunch, the only time I've missed it was to make up a test or something that I didn't want to do after school. And then I just eat during other classes. It's not that rare that I finish my lunch before lunch. (School lunches are overpriced and crappy and my parents wouldn't pay for them.)</p>
<p>yeah, i agree with you on the overpriced crappy school lunches. (our school has all these fancy named things on the menu, but it always tastes the same: naaaasty.) but i eat it anyways, mostly because i would never get the time to actually make something.</p>
<p>we do have some lunch periods, but we get frees at other times to make up. we have too few teachers so they have to fit in some classes at lunch which makes the schedule suck for some kids.</p>
<p>Our school doesn't let the kids eat during classes, and has just this year banned even bottled water.</p>
<p>Yeah, we have the same rules, except water is ok in a clear bottle. But most teachers don't care enough to enforce the rules. Stealthy eating is not hard either. I think it's a detention for eating/drinking in class now.</p>
<p>To lennni -- We have a ten-minute morning break. :/ (Yes, my school's a bit mad.) Morning break from 10:20 to 10:30; lunch from 12:35 to 12:55.</p>
<p>And yes, no eating during class. Water's okay if you ask the teacher's permission.</p>
<p>(I sound like I go to boot camp now, don't I? Well, it isn't far off!)</p>
<p>water is banned in our school too, but there is exactly one teacher in the school who enforces this
other teachers let us drink soda even, and a few teachers let us eat in class =)</p>
<p>most schools have a full period lunch, right? I know most of the schools around mine do, but mine only has half period =/</p>
<p>Yeah our school has never allowed any type of food or drink including water in the classroom.
But teachers usually don't care anyway.</p>
<p>I used to take French classes in the lunch breaks year 10...but the school allowed us to eat lunch in them since they were every day... It really depends on the teacher, we always bring food to bio, and he like heats up coffee/has plastic cutlery for food etc. Haha, we also eat microwave food in physics a lot and I frequently bring food to Art class. Conversely it's most strict in my English class, and the teachers cough when u take a bottle of water out. Ironic isn't it...the rules are most relaxed in the subjects that have the most risk of contamination and stuff. Though sandwiches do look less appetising in bio when u're staring at a lung holding a scalpel.</p>
<p>hahaha i'll take lung and mayo, please</p>
<p>my last year french teacher was AWESOME. we had a double every friday morning and he's assign some food/items to each student and we'd have a breakfast feast. (i was always on pain au chocolat, hot chocolate and tea duty)we were also supposedly going to have debates during the double, of course, there was more eating than talking. :D</p>
<p>otherwise most of my teachers don't really care what you eat as long as it's not gum. the guidance counsellor always bakes us cookies to eat during class, though. :D ;)</p>
<p>Ya'll aren't allowed to eat in class? I eat during every single class...I have breakfast during Bio, my mid-morning snack (hah) during government, cookies and dessert during TOK (she brings us food everyday)...and then I guess we have lunch, which is 45 minutes, but we go off-campus and end up missing the first 15 minutes of sixth period everyday.</p>
<p>Anyway, we eat ALLLL the time.
That's really unfortunate yall arent allowed to.</p>