Who in the school knows which students are on the free lunch program?
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Anonymous
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The cafeteria workers? The front office staff? The children's teachers (specifically thinking about elementary age students here)?
Just curious who is privy to this info. Thank you. |
Anonymous
| No one. It is completely confidential at the school. |
Anonymous
| About 90% of the children at the school where I teach are FARMS. So, we pretty much all know. |
Anonymous
| Admin knows. |
Anonymous
If you are my DC's former 3rd grade teacher -- we miss you so much!! |
Anonymous
Not true. I and any staff member can find that info in the database with a few keystrokes if I wanted to. |
Anonymous
| NSA knows. |
Anonymous
| Definitely guidance counselor and social worker, plus administration. Not sure about the cafeteria - I think it may show up if the child tries to buy dessert, but I'm not sure. |
Anonymous
| At our charter parents turned in the farm app to teachers. It's not like I remembered or dwelled on it though... |
Anonymous
| In FCPS, only the cafeteria manager and the principal have access to the list. |
Anonymous
| I am sure some of the office staff knows, but at our school, every kid, paying or free, "pays" for lunch by typing a 5 digit code into the register. So the other kids would have no way of knowing who actually pays and whose code gets them free lunch. It seems like a decent system. |
Anonymous
| Teacher generally finds out, but the info is kept confidential. |
Anonymous
+1 Former counselor here- It's in the kids file on the database (it also differentiates between free and and reduced). |
Anonymous
Holy cow. Where the hell is this? |
Anonymous
There are several local schools with this FARMs rate. Why so surprised? Broad Acres ES in MCPS has 94%. |