Reply to White or Asian parents at Westland, does this happen to your kid?

Forum Index » Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS)

Reply to "White or Asian parents at Westland, does this happen to your kid?"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous]We are a solidly middle class African American family.  My son attends Westland, and I'm really happy with everything except this one little quirk.

My son likes to eat school lunch.  I make sure he always has plenty of money in his account.  He is not on FARMS.  However, frequently he'll come home hungry and say he didn't get enough to eat.  He's in the middle of his growth spurt after all.  If I ask "why didn't you buy more food?" and he'll say that the lunch ladies tell him things like "that's not included in your meal" or "you can't buy that" if he tries to add something to his lunch.  Today he said that there was a bagel meal he wanted, but when he got to the register they told him it didn't "count" as a meal and he needed to put it back.  He's a pretty shy compliant kid, so he went back, put the bagel away, selected something else and was told he wasn't allowed to go through the line twice.  That got worked out because the lunch lady who had served him the first time recognized what was going on, and told the other lunch lady to let him buy.

This doesn't really make sense to me.  If there's a bagel meal, then obviously they are intending for some child to buy it right?  Similarly, if there are things like chips or granola bars, then surely they expect children to buy those too?  So, why can't my kid buy them?

Today it occurred to me that perhaps the lunch ladies are making an assumption that he is on FARMS, or that our income is limited, and are trying to guide him to the less expensive choices.  It made me wonder if other kids had the same experience.  [/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics