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Amid shrinking lunch periods, this Washington school district serves up solutions
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Speed matters as the cooks at Blaine Elementary school serve up hot food to hundreds of hungry kids that will line up during six lunch periods.
“I need to get these kids through in about ten minutes,” said Sue Wozniak, who has worked for the Blaine School District in Whatcom County for 26 years.
The goal, as she whips out piles of mashed potatoes and gravy onto trays, is to get kids as much time as possible to sit and eat their lunches.
A KING 5 survey earlier this year found that most school districts are falling short of the recommended time for students to sit and eat their lunch. Twenty-one of the 26 school districts that responded to the survey said they have at least one school with a 20 minute or shorter lunch period (five schools did not respond to repeated requests from KING 5).
Read the full story here: https://www.king5.com/article/news/investigations/investigators/school-lunch-time-washington-survey-ospi-blaine-solutions/281-6bfe9eae-4748-45ad-a4b4-d8bb9fa3badd