Free or Reduced lunch ?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The kids that get the lunch every single day are generally getting free or reduced. Kids are aware of this...

Then the kids are wrong, my kid gets lunch every day and he is not even close to FARMs. Don't ask me why, he can make lunch at home but he seems to prefer to buy. He is not alone at his school.

My kids refused to touch the slop served in FCPS cafeterias.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The kids that get the lunch every single day are generally getting free or reduced. Kids are aware of this...

Then the kids are wrong, my kid gets lunch every day and he is not even close to FARMs. Don't ask me why, he can make lunch at home but he seems to prefer to buy. He is not alone at his school.

My kids refused to touch the slop served in FCPS cafeterias.

Great! This conversation is not about you. This is sometimes the only meal a kid gets so it’s there for them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The kids that get the lunch every single day are generally getting free or reduced. Kids are aware of this...

Then the kids are wrong, my kid gets lunch every day and he is not even close to FARMs. Don't ask me why, he can make lunch at home but he seems to prefer to buy. He is not alone at his school.

My kids refused to touch the slop served in FCPS cafeterias.

Great! This conversation is not about you. This is sometimes the only meal a kid gets so it’s there for them.

I taught a LOT of free lunch kids. I think your premise is rare. And, these kids were extremely impoverished. They may not have had good healthy food at home, but they did have food. And, yes, these kids should get free lunch, but I agree with a PP, these meals are not necessarily good.

All you have to do is look in the trash cans. Lots gets tossed.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I never know who gets free or reduced lunch.

ES Teacher

Honestly if you are in FCPS this makes me sad because to me this means that your school is not taking advantage of the Food for Others weekend packets of food delivered to kids every Friday. At my child’s ES, a PTA rep coordinates this, but a volunteer from Food For Others delivers these weekend food bags every week and a group of parents deliver the bags on Fridays to the classrooms. (Only the teacher knows who gets them, and she/he discreetly puts the bags in their backpacks. So if you don’t know who gets free and reduced lunch, then my guess is you don’t have this program that helps supply these families—-about 40 families at our school—with extra food?)
If your school isn’t participating in this free program, please please please take this post to your PTA and ask a volunteer to contact Food For Others.

I work in an ES with this program. It’s not nearly as discrete as you think. I’ve had kids pull it out of their backpack to get a snack or complain loudly about the food in the bag; plus they need to return the bag for refilling on Mondays, so students see that. We also have more families that need the food than the program can support, so I have kids ask me when they can get off the waitlist in front of their classmates. So… not discrete.

BUT no one seems to care.