Schools Rights?

Totally wrong.

Rebel. That's what I did when my teachers kept me from my lunch break against my will.

Not completely the same scenario, but just before I left education, we'd recently opened a new school canteen. The queues for lunch were so long though (900+ hungry mouths to feed, plus a school faculty of 100+), that they couldn't meet the demand for the 1325-1415 lunch break. However, the staff had to let all those in the queue go in for what they queued for, and as a result, people were still being served and/or eating by 1525.

Seriously though, schools and teachers are in a duty of care, and I'm sure Phil will tell you exactly the same thing. So you can have your cake lunch, and eat it, darling.

They must provide 30 mins meal break - part of human rights thingymajig IIRC.

There are medical conditions that require a person to eat at a set time, such as diabetes and hypoglycemia (both blood sugar issues). There are many others. If the school stops someone from taking food when needed they can be held accountable.

At middle school we used to get an hour and 10 minutes, at upper school we got an hour (57 minutes on a Monday*). I can't remember what I got at primary school.

*For the first three years I was there the school ran a strange timetable where there were 6 50-minute lessons a day Tuesday to Friday but 7 slightly shorter (43 minutes?) lessons a day on Mondays. From the year I started 6th form they changed to a two-week timetable with 6 lessons a day all week.

At my school (at least, when I go), they don't really care about whether we don't get any food....

And to really take the waters, the teachers themselves go to the canteen, grab their food and take it back to the classroom!

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Good on you Phil!!

i remember the time when our stand-in Biology teacher arrived 15 minutes late, kept the whole class 10 minutes after he had done an hour's teaching (the length of the lesson) for making the lesson overrun by 15 minutes. He then, gave the few of us who hadn't done our homework a task to do, as a detention (stapling or something) and then went off for lunch and forgot about us until nearly the end of lunch (so about half an hour). There was no warning, nor anytime to eat lunch. If we had had a half an hour det starting at the beginning of lunch - no problems, however his tardiness and then blaming us for his tardiness meant that the half an hour we would have had became 5 minutes.

Does it apply to universities? In my first semester I had 0900-1730 on Fridays with no break, other than the standard 10/20 minute breaks between lectures to allow movement between lecture slots and no break in my triple slot labs (1355-1635) so my breaks were 0945-0955, 1040-1100, 1145-1155, 1240-1300, 1345-1355 and 1635-1645. We ate, breaking all the rules on eating in lecture theatres, in our 1300 lecture.

If your teachers refuse to see reason then ask your mum to write to/call the headteacher and insist that you are given a break at lunchtime.

(And remind her to add on walking time! And state that if any teachers dare try to talk to you during your lunch then you will be obliged to start it all over again!)

Hi folks, just got home.

I queued up for lunch at break but the queue ws so long by the time I got anywhere near the fron the bell had gone.

We stayed in at lunchtime, where he cracked jokes alot of the time, which annoyed me, as I hadn't turned up to watch a stand up show, I was there because I apparently had a 'big' exam coming up.

So we go through the mock papers...answer some questions and depart, so I quickly run with my mate to the ice cream van ( the only form of food left at that time) and guess what? about 3/4 of the way there and the bell goes.

Just got home, put my tea in and grabbed a chocolate biscuit.

Can you really blame me?