Way back when I was in elementary school, there was about 1.5 hrs between when recess was and when lunch was. That would suggest to me that this is probably around 1.5 to 2 hrs total.
Way back in the 80s, I think I got 15 minutes for recess around 10:30. Lunch was at noon and lasted an hour.
Between? As in
Instruction
Recess
Instruction
Lunch
???
âtook out of lunch and recessâ strongly implies they are not missing instruction time.
When I was in elementary there was early lunch and late lunch (determined by grade) If you had early lunch:
Instruction
Lunch
1st Recess
Instruction
2nd Recess
Instruction
If you had late lunch it was
Instruction
1st Recess
Instruction
Lunch
2nd Recess
Instruction
There was ALWAYS recess immediately after lunch and the sooner you finished lunch the sooner you could go outside for recess (although I think they forced us to sit at lunch for at least 20 minutes, which just getting through the line probably took at least 5 leaving 15 to eat).
My school it wasâŚ
Instruction
Recess
Instruction
Lunch/recess
Instruction
I had the same as F_A, with recess midway between start of day and lunch. Afternoon was 2 1/4 hours without a break and that seemed like forever.
Well that was second of the two options I listed at my school. 
Actually I attended three schools in two states but they all had one of those two iterations, always with a recess immediately following lunch.
Everything Iâve read on this (I live in Columbus) says the kids have to scarf down lunch at school and then theyâre sent off campus.
And my son, in a nearby school district (not the same one but all the public schools here operate very similarly), gets a combined 50 minutes for lunch and recess.
In my sons school, k-2 get another recess, but 3-5 get only the one.
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It looks like they also miss specials. 
This is from a FAQ on the LifeWise Academy - Westerville FB page.
I am watching the recorded board meetings from the last two weeks and it does appear lunch and recess arenât the only times kids are being pulled out of school, yes.
I grew up in Westerville, although we were so close to Worthington that the school district we were in was actually Worthington, but this is of very real interest to me regardless. I grew up with faith and am still of faith. I believe religious education can absolutely belong during school hours, which is why homeschooling and private religious schools exist. Iâm glad this decision was handed down as it was.
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In yesterdayâs meeting a guy got removed for pointing out the unfairness of the recent appointment of a Muslim to the school board (she was sworn in the week prior, where many similar debates took place and he also pointed it out there as well) while Christians are being stripped of their own rights to free speech. Glad to see it!
Fun fact: in ⌠I think it was 1981 or so the state of Ohio redrew all of the district lines in the entire state to try to increase diversity in schools. Theyâd throw a black neighborhood into a white school district and vice versa. Of course in some cases where not much diversity existed they were literally looking for the one black kid in the second richest district to move into the richest district and the two black kids from the third richest to move into the second richest. There was only so much they could do in a lot of places. But they tried.
Anyway, thatâs why the district lines and the city lines no longer match up.
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I was definitely on the border of these two so Iâm not surprised, we were a stoneâs throw from the other zip code. We spent the first 10 years of my life in 43085 (Worthington), then moved a half mile down the road to 43081 (Westerville), where my parents still live today. Most people wouldnât consider it either of those things now, it just gets called âPolarisâ because of the shopping that has popped up there in the last 25 years. It was corn fields and nothingness when we moved in, though!
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When Reagan said âI didnât leave the Democratic Party, the Democratic Party left meâ it wasnât because Democrats suddenly became radical. Itâs because Reagan got set in what he wanted the world to be and wouldnât evolve with changing times. So in a sense, yeah - the Democrats did leave him, because he wanted to stay in the past.
That explains a ton of why older people skew Republican: they get older, get nostalgic of the way things used to be and forget that they were once at the forefront of change and got pushback from their parents and older folks who wanted things to be the same and never change. The more society evolves, the more they fall back on what theyâre comfortable with and resist changing with the times.
Got a poll texted to me today
Are you voting for
A) Donald Trump
B) Kamala Harris
C) Niether
Iâm sure they have rigorous methodology.
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They are just keeping track of where the Harris supporters live, so you can receive all of the immigrants after the election.
Two things that are different so far this election.
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My absentee ballot came with a new flier doubling down on the instructions of how to properly complete it (two envelopes, one of which must be signed and dated), and reminding me of the location of the drop box to use.
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Also in todayâs mail was a letter from the incumbent representative to the state legislature (a D), reminding my wife (registered D) of the importance of voting, and including an absentee ballot application just in case she needed one. I didnât get such a letter, presumably because I forgot to disaffiliate after having registered R for the primaries.
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I donât live in a âswingâ state. The majority party wins almost everything, including down-ballot offices. It makes me feel less guilty casting votes for âwrite-inâ candidates. 
The only actual competitive race on my ballot might be a state constitutional amendment to allow every eligible voter to vote absentee. (In CT, absentee voting is permitted only for a few enumerated reasons, although since the start of the pandemic, the âsicknessâ reason has been interpreted as âafraid of getting sick from someone elseâs germsâ.)
Therefore, I had no qualms doing this:
