As the Massachusetts public school teachers assert their rights to earn a living wage with good benefits and limits on their responsibilities, I see another area where changes are needed, namely lunch times.

While dietary choices are not the best in school, the extreme variation in the lunch hour itself is enough to throw off the balance of any teen. My daughter has lunch as early as 10:55am and as late as 12:15pm, after having breakfast before 7:30am. It seems to be something can be done to allow children to have a regular schedule of meals, to support the stress of six classes and raging hormones.

What do you think about this?