"Most male politicians I know who have children don't do lunchroom duty".
Re "Confronting Bullies Who Wound With Words," by Marcelle S. Fischler (Long Island Journal, Oct. 16): What do lunchrooms, hallways, school buses and home computers in children's bedrooms all have in common?
They all also tend to live in the same communities, coach their kids' teams, do school lunchroom duty, so they're active in one another's lives.
At 12 40 p.m., Mr. Bassoff said, he took his class to the lunchroom, leaving them, as he did every day, in the charge of a lunchroom attendant.
I looked at her across the lunchroom, but I didn't stare.
CHICAGO — The food fight here started the way such bouts do in school lunchrooms most anywhere: an apple was tossed, a cookie turned into a torpedo, and an orange plunked someone in the head.
Although students did little to organize a formal protest, lines in the lunchroom started to shrink as word spread.
Kathy Bowman, a kindergarten teacher, said that lunchroom chatter gave her hints about which children did not have adults caring for them after school or any books at home.
I firmly believe that a mother carries her children within her tender breast wherever she goes and wherever they are, when away from her. Regardless, when it's lunch time, I'm not unpacking my tupperware container like my husband or meeting in a lunchroom with other teachers like my own mom did.
"That was me, wanting a certain type of model, and our lives didn't fit that model," she told me in an Iowa lunchroom in the summer of 2007.
