Swiss School Lunches
Just in case you
thought YOU had an issue with school lunches, read
this is an excerpt from a BBC news story about living
in Switzerland.
"School timetables are not just strict, they are Byzantine in their complexity. A regular nine-to-four day is unheard of. Instead children come and go throughout the day.
Here, for example, is a snapshot of my two sons' timetable.
On Monday, one starts school at 0730, the other at 0820. One comes home at 11, the other at 12, one goes back at two, the other is home for the afternoon. It goes on like that all week but not in the same way, of course. Each day is cleverly different.
The only thing that is sacrosanct is the two-hour lunch break. Forget about school dinners. Switzerland still operates on the principle that Mum is at home, so children are always home for lunch.
I have a friend with three children who tried for years to get a job but never succeeded because - and she worked it out precisely - given the school timetable, she could never be out of the house for more than an hour and 43 minutes."
www.news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/from_our_own_correspondent/7415455.stm
"School timetables are not just strict, they are Byzantine in their complexity. A regular nine-to-four day is unheard of. Instead children come and go throughout the day.
Here, for example, is a snapshot of my two sons' timetable.
On Monday, one starts school at 0730, the other at 0820. One comes home at 11, the other at 12, one goes back at two, the other is home for the afternoon. It goes on like that all week but not in the same way, of course. Each day is cleverly different.
The only thing that is sacrosanct is the two-hour lunch break. Forget about school dinners. Switzerland still operates on the principle that Mum is at home, so children are always home for lunch.
I have a friend with three children who tried for years to get a job but never succeeded because - and she worked it out precisely - given the school timetable, she could never be out of the house for more than an hour and 43 minutes."
www.news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/from_our_own_correspondent/7415455.stm