8 minutes to eat lunch at school? KING 5 investigates Washington lunch periods

A KING 5 survey shows many school lunch periods fall short of what experts recommend for kids.

EVERETT, Wash. — When school is out each day, food is the first order of business at Amber Ortega’s home.

“I had to eat my pizza really fast at school,” her daughter Rose said on a recent afternoon at the family’s house in Everett. 

It’s the kind of comment that Ortega hears almost every day as she feeds her two daughters an after-school snack.  “When my kids come home and complain about not being able to finish their lunch, it usually always just boils down to not

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