Free Breakfast/Lunch for All Students
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Anonymous
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FARMS or not, your kids now get free meals at these schools:
Annandale Terrace Elementary School (Annandale) Bailey’s Elementary School (Justice) Bailey’s Upper Elementary School (Justice) Braddock Elementary School (Annandale) Crestwood Elementary School (Lee) Dogwood Elementary School (South Lakes) Garfield Elementary School (Lee) Glen Forest Elementary School (Justice) Graham Road Elementary School (Falls Church) Groveton Elementary School (West Potomac) Hutchison Elementary School (Herndon) Hybla Valley Elementary School (West Potomac) Lynbrook Elementary School (Lee) Mount Vernon Woods Elementary School (Mount Vernon) Parklawn Elementary School (Justice/Annandale) Riverside Elementary School (Mount Vernon) Weyanoke Elementary School (Annandale) Woodburn Elementary School (Falls Church) Woodley Hills Elementary School (Mount Vernon) |
Anonymous
| DC does this as well. |
Anonymous
I am not seeing Franklin Sherman, Spring Hill, Churchill, Kent Garden and Chesterbrook ES on the list. Any reasons why? |
Anonymous
| What’s the farms cutoff for this? |
Anonymous
There isn’t one. All kids eat free. |
Anonymous
Last year, the lowest was 66.0%, but there were some schools over 66% not getting all-free meals this year: Annandale Terrace Elementary School (Annandale) - 77.5% Bailey’s Elementary School (Justice) - 67.5% Bailey’s Upper Elementary School (Justice) - 75.0% Braddock Elementary School (Annandale) - 75.3% Crestwood Elementary School (Lee) - 68.9% Dogwood Elementary School (South Lakes) - 76.0% Garfield Elementary School (Lee) - 69.7% Glen Forest Elementary School (Justice) - 75.3% Graham Road Elementary School (Falls Church) - 83.4% Groveton Elementary School (West Potomac) - 68.5% Hutchison Elementary School (Herndon) - 80.4% Hybla Valley Elementary School (West Potomac) - 90.4% Lynbrook Elementary School (Lee) - 85.3% Mount Vernon Woods Elementary School (Mount Vernon) - 80.9% Parklawn Elementary School (Justice/Annandale) - 74.0% Riverside Elementary School (Mount Vernon) - 67.9% Weyanoke Elementary School (Annandale) - 76.3% Woodburn Elementary School (Falls Church) - 66.0% Woodley Hills Elementary School (Mount Vernon) - 68.3% |
Anonymous
| So there is no percentage of poor kids where the free food is automatic? How do they decide which schools qualify? |
Anonymous
+1 |
Anonymous
Or Wolf trap, Colvin run, West briar, Louise archer, Vienna, Oakton, or Flint Hill |
Anonymous
Instead of having students fill out forms and qualify individually, schools can apply for to have the whole school qualify based on the median income in the community. It's much more efficient, in predominantly low income areas it's cheaper for the fed to just feed the kids who aren't low-income rather than doing all the compliance to make sure the schools are submitting paperwork properly. |
Anonymous
These are schools where the parents don’t expect handouts. |
Anonymous
| Not in VA but Baltimore City schools decided to do this for all schools a few years ago. All students in all school receive free breakfast and lunch. It makes the breakfast and lunch lines move a lot faster since students no longer have to enter their PIN number at the end of the line. |
Anonymous
Yeah, and it’s really improved the schools in Baltimore, hasn’t it? Bet it will only accelerate the flight of non-FARMS families from those schools. |
Anonymous
| So when does every kid in Fairfax county get this? |
Anonymous
| Free breakfast is the least we can do for non-Farms kids who attend these schools. It's like a consolation prize of the smallest sort. |