Ahead of a Thursday meeting where the school board will take tentative action on the Montgomery County Public Schools’ (MCPS) rules on whether students can leave campus for lunch, hundreds of parents are raising concerns about the possible impact.
“The issue isn’t just about changing the open lunch policy, the issue is with a lack of transparency, and the representatives want to accelerate the process and limit public conversation on the topic, and that’s where the real concern is,” Jim Turner, a parent of a Walter Johnson High student, told Bethesda Today on Tuesday. “The public has the right to provide feedback on this.”
At least 740 people signed a petition as of Thursday morning urging the district to not make changes without community feedback. Turner, the organizer, said there were several reasons to continue open lunch and changing it without feedback would be “inherently unfair.”…