Lunch at Kimberly Lane

One of our Facebook group members had lunch at Kimberly Lane a few days ago.  This was the experience:
"I had lunch at Kimberly Lane today. My 2nd grader's lunch is from 11:12 to 11:32 and there were 4 classrooms in the cafeteria. Kids started trickling in at 11:13. My daughter's class was the last to come in. All children were in winter gear. She grabbed her water bottle from the bin set outside of the cafeteria and this did not seem to take more than a few seconds. We were in line and we sat down after 6 minutes of lunch started. The last kid got served 8 minutes after lunch started. There were fresh bananas and plums and some sort of canned pear, I believe. I noticed on our table that most (2/3) of kids that got school lunches did not finish what they put on their trays. There was an INSANE amount of food waste, primarily fruits and vegetables. Whole bananas were being thrown in the garbage. At this point, I called one of the lunch paras and she instructed the children to put whole fruit and unopened milk cartons in the bin on top of the island (by the trash bins). I saw one of my daughter's classmates frantically trying to finish her meal as her tray sat on this same island, which was disheartening. The lunch paras wiped the tables. They might have been told to stop eating about 2 minutes before the end of the period."

Another group member from Kimberly Lane wrote about the recess experience:

"Kimberly Lane has recess before lunch. The kids need to line up outside and be totally silent before being allowed to come in for lunch. If any kids are talking or being loud, the line is forced to wait outside until everyone is quiet. My daughter has several kids in her class who are regularly talking so even if her class is supposed to be first in the lunch line that day, because of the "silent requirement," they do not get to go first. This means that most days, she has 15 minutes or less to get her food, eat and clean up and lots of food goes to waste. She has asked her classroom teacher if she can bring her lunch back to the classroom to finish eating, but that is not allowed. Because she is so hungry in the afternoon, she is forced to bring a large amount of snacks everyday."