The province provides funds to hire lunch supervisors, but doesn’t set rules or required ratios for supervision. Lunch hour these days features more than ham sandwiches and cheese strings at many Toronto schools. “It’s yet another heartbreaking underbelly of our public school system.”Old schools weren’t built to accommodate hundreds of children for lunch. Most of Regal Road’s roughly 600 students stay for lunch and outdoor play, with primary kids and juniors eating in separate sittings. She says the big hurdles are finding resources and replacements for lunchroom supervisors who don’t show up or quit.

Source: thestar March 20, 2018 23:48 UTC