re: Are more parents going to schools during lunch to spend time w/ their kids?

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I wouldn't want random adults around my kids at school.

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I mean, a classmates parent isn't really that "random". And it's not like they wander around the school wherever talking to any kid. They usually make a parent sign in and are told to go straight to the lunchroom and leave straight after.

The only children the parent would really be around or speak to would be your kids friends sitting at the table with them, so there's a good chance you and your kid both already know this adult.

Also the types of parents who show up for lunch are generally the same parents who would chaperone on field trips or volunteer for other classroom stuff. Not the young twenty-something sketchy druggie parents with split custody.

If you can't trust your kids school to keep them safe from another kids parent in a lunchroom filled with people then it sounds like you need to move.