DD who is in Y6 and 3 of her friends have to sit on the classroom carpet to eat their packed lunch.Everybody else sits at a table but there is insufficient chairs and teh dinner lady won't let tghem carry one each through from the next classroom.
Her, and her friends gripe is that the echildren don't have different indoor and outdoor shoes and she doesn't particularly want to sit and eat on a carpet that's been trampled over by 20 pairs of shoes each day which may have walked through dog muck etc.I don't know whether she is BU or not but it doesn't sound very hygienic to me and it doesn't sound very civilised either.We always sit at the table to eat at home and I know one of the girls always brings hot food in a flask and I think that must be harder to manage.I have wondered whether I should suggest a picnic rug that can be laundered at home.