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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Thank you. What about when parents are working or volunteering at the school in some capacity? Would they be able to find out? People seem to gossip too much at our school.[/quote]

I’m the PP who just posted about Food for Others and no, even the parents who help
out with this program have no idea. And we don’t want to know. We just want to make sure that kids have extra food when they need it.
(Though I’m sure if a kid takes the pouch out of his backpack and waves it around, we could figure it out….but no parent is doing this weekly role in an effort to try to gossip about your family’s circumstance)[/quote]

Our ES made this obvious: your students know who receives backpack food because the parent volunteers return the backpacks to the class on Friday. My own kids asked me about this (I am a longtime volunteer at a food pantry) when they were in ES. “On Fridays, Mrs. Smith comes into our class to get X, Y and Z backpacks…”

An observation: students receiving free- reduced lunches never have a packed lunch and almost never bring snacks. Teacher provides snacks from classroom stash.

And, fairly quickly the teacher knows what family will be unable to provide school supplies, class party money, pay for field trips, instruments, etc. The counselor or social worker reaches out to the teacher to intervene and be the liaison so parents won’t be continuously asked for all of the above.[/quote]

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