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Wednesday, September 7, 2011

Students choke on “reform” when lunch is 10 minutes long « Parents Across America

Students choke on “reform” when lunch is 10 minutes long « Parents Across America:

Students choke on “reform” when lunch is 10 minutes long

So-called education “reform” means teaching to the test, narrowing curriculum — and truncating lunch to 10 or 15 minutes. School food advocates object in a post on the popular The Lunch Tray blog.

As I explained in a comment on the blog, educators aren’t the ones who think insanely short lunches are a good idea. As this commentary mentions, they are under intense (seriously intense, crushing) pressure from the non-educators who control our nation’s education policy.

The truncated lunches are part of a bigger picture. That’s why educators and parents should set the direction for our education policy — not the billionaires, hedge-funders and