So why is it that children don't go home for lunch any more?

[BlueCornflower]

That's it really. Not that I want my DD to. I am just interested why no one seems to do it these days. Is it not allowed anymore, or would you be allowed to do it if you really wanted to?

Aaah, poor old enid

I would imagine that its due to lack of parental enthusiasm about being tied to collection/drop-off/being at home at lunch-time everyday. What I want to know is why did people go home in the old days? Was it because not all schools could provide a school dinner and in the olden days people used to eat 3 square meals a day?

Thinking about it, I suppose there must be regional variations. Where I grew up even if the mother didn't work, the father probably commuted in to London to work so wouldn't have come home for lunch, and when I was at secondary school, even if we had been allowed off the premises before the sixth form by the time I had got the bus home I would already have been late to go back to school for afternoon classes. Commuters don't go home for lunch.

My dad used to fetch me on a Friday at lunchtime for > a sausage roll