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Dreading Lunch Duty

I could call in sick except I don’t. It is only nine more days until summer break. And I am taking Friday off. That is only two days from now. I keep thinking I could leave early. Because the worst part of my day is coming up. I watch the clock. Forty-one minutes until lunch duty. The dreaded, horrible, awful, terrible, lunch duty. Forty minutes now Thirty-nine minutes now. Thirty-eight minutes. Thirty-seven minutes. Thirty-six minutes. Thirty-five minutes. As you can see, I am determined to spend my whole day on this.

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Andrea Dietrich

Date: 5/19/2022 4:28:00 PM

hmmm, you really hate lunch duty!! I worked in a college cafeteria once upon a time, both on the line serving and back in the kitchen cooking. I actually enjoyed it a lot. i wonder what you hate about it. i was pregnant at the time, and oh my, it packed 15 extra lbs on my already enormous body. haha

Caren Krutsinger
Date: 5/20/2022 1:59:00 AM

I really do. This is why. There are no consequences even when a child pushes another child to the floor in the lunchroom. We have a rule that "nobody in our school district can be suspended" and I have watched the same bully push three different children off a stool onto the floor - and I mean follow them down with both hands and nothing has been done about it. No consequences. I have 42 students in there and I am the ONLY adult. Five others are usually whistling, tapping their feet, kicking a lunch table to make noise, or doing something equally loud. This is why I despise lunch duty.

L Milton Hankins

Date: 5/19/2022 8:52:00 AM

Hmmm...it must be simply dreadful. I will hope that you learn not to obsess on it and go with the flow. Most of your day is filled with fun and adventure. Too bad, but into every life a little rain must fall. Gosh, did I really write that?

L Milton Hankins
Date: 5/19/2022 1:12:00 PM

Do you not have a firm principal? When I was teaching the kids hated the thoughts of being sent to the principal, for they new it would be bad news for them! Did a lot to keep down classroom problems. Permissive principals are not a good thing.

Caren Krutsinger
Date: 5/19/2022 12:18:00 PM

It is so awful. I have one 4th grader who has knocked three students to the ground in front of me and has had no consequences.