Free breakfast and lunch at all schools, all year?

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Anonymous wrote:Complain to the federal government not to MCPS:

https://schoolnutrition.org/uploadedFiles/About_School_Meals/What_We_Do/Nutrition-Standards-for-School-Meals.pdf

Did you know Howard County had salad bars pre Covid and currently has a pre order menu for a custom grab meal? My nephew can choose a deli line where some one makes a sandwich up for him even during Covid. It's not just the federal government.

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Will mcps be able to go 'free for all' again?

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This is for Title I schools and has been for years. All kids eat free at Title I schools.

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Anonymous wrote:Will mcps be able to go 'free for all' again?

The free meals were provided with COVID funds, when schools reopened after the shutdown. Those days are long gone. The budget is so tight now that there's no way that could happen.

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Anonymous wrote:Making sure that kids aren’t hungry so they can participate and engage is a worthwhile goal. I can only imagine the free food is cheaper than uneducated adults.

Free and reduced price lunches already exist, along with SNAP, the EITC, and many other welfare and food related programs, not to mention food banks that give out peanut butter by the buckets. Who exactly are the hungry kids? The ones whose parents traded their SNAP for cash? No, because they are automatically eligible for free lunch. So, we should be paying for richer kids to throw out their food?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is for Title I schools and has been for years. All kids eat free at Title I schools.

I’m not sure what the threshold is but it’s more than Title I, some Focus schools as well. But I don’t think all. I only know because it applied to our ES.

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Anonymous wrote:Food has gotten incredibly expensive. I do not know how people on a budget are making it work. It is especially shameful because the supply chain issues are mostly resolved; food companies and grocery stores are now testing how high thry can set prices and still have customers.

I think it is great that the schools are feeding kids no questions asked, with prices so high I am sure some people are doing without and would be going hungry otherwise.

You buy cheaper foods, you shop at Aldi's, Lidl, Walmart, for example. Lots of ways.

Tell that to the 19,000+ MCPS students living in poverty.

35% of MCPS students qualify for FARMs.

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Anonymous wrote:I just read this. Is it true? Every kid at every school? Seems expensive.

It’s true. You are not allowed to question is on this board. Just pay your taxes to feed the kids from Bethesda living in their $2 million homes, while you slave away at your middle class job and rent an apartment in Aspen Hill.

Sorry to disappoint, but the kids in Bethesda living in $2 million homes don’t want the free lunch. They bring their own.

Which Bethesda school do you work in the lunchroom of? Because otherwise there's no way for you to know that.

I know that because my kids have been in those schools for years now. Pyle Middle School barely had a cafeteria staff (i think one part-time person) a few years ago because they are assigned based on how many meals are made each day. So cut the attitude. I know more than you do about what goes on in my community that you likely don’t live in. And stop blaming Bethesda and Potomac for all your problems. I’m not saying my tax dollars shouldn’t help support you, so you shouldn’t be so resentful of my kid getting something either. If you want to play that game though, you should support getting rid of the county school system and letting each town fund their own. Let’s see how you like that.

Neither Bethesda nor Potomac is a town.

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Anonymous wrote:Making sure that kids aren’t hungry so they can participate and engage is a worthwhile goal. I can only imagine the free food is cheaper than uneducated adults.

Free and reduced price lunches already exist, along with SNAP, the EITC, and many other welfare and food related programs, not to mention food banks that give out peanut butter by the buckets. Who exactly are the hungry kids? The ones whose parents traded their SNAP for cash? No, because they are automatically eligible for free lunch. So, we should be paying for richer kids to throw out their food?

If you've ever taught in a school you know some kids are hungry. Shame on you for not caring and for assuming their parents must be using their SNAP money for cash -- and especially shame on you for thinking these hungry kids deserve to pay the price if that is true. You suck. I'm glad I'm not you.

[Anonymous]

Kids are not getting the proper nutrition, unfortunately. They may be getting food that a lot of times goes to waste.