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?

[Mercy]

Aaah, poor old enid

[MadamePlatypus]

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?

[MadamePlatypus]

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.

[Fimbo]

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