“I even ran home and back to school for a hot lunch with Mom when I was in high school...”
I heard of kids doing this but never knew of any.
Kids at my school either got school lunch or brought their own lunch in those old fashion metal lunch boxes that had a thermos in it. I notice the lunch boxes kids have today don’t come with a thermos.
Plus I wonder if kids could even go home for lunch the way they have schools locked down like a prison.
All the kids who lived near the school went home for lunch...
The rest of us brought lunch from home and ate it in a classroom designated as a lunchroom...
I usually had Marmite and lettuce sandwiches and cookies...
Mondays we had meat pies that Mom baked on Sunday night...
The bread shop was only open Monday through Friday so the re was no fresh bread Monday mornings...
As for a thermos I sometimes took hot soup to school in the winter...
At our school we were free to come and go as long as we were on time for class after lunch...
Every grade had the same hour for lunch...
In elementary school we took our shoes and socks off and played leapfrog after we ate ...
In high school our headmistress frowned on such unladylike behavior and we had to keep our shoes on ...
:)
I thought I had better further explain the leapfrog event ...
We wore a school uniform in both elementary and high school...
A tunic and blouse and added black stockings, a hat and blazer in HS...
In elementary school we tucked our skirt up into our bloomers to play leapfrog or do handstands ...
In HS it was deemed unseemly to do so...
There were rules in HS such as suspension for not wearing our hat even off campus after school...
Well you can't blame the schools, nowadays if something happened while the kid was out for lunch, they'd be sued by the parents.