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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]In the recent past, families at my school self reported.[b]  Believe me, no one wants school lunch.  It's gross. [/b] Also, no one wants teachers and office staff to know they are poor.  In the last year though, my district did away with any income verification.  Any kid who wants breakfast or lunch can have it, free of charge.  This change happened because older kids were beginning to put together "they are poor" with the kids who don't pay each day.  Our state didn't want kids avoiding ordering lunch because they didn't want to be seen as poor.  No kid wants to be the poor kid.  Some will go hungry to avoid that stigma.  Especially, if they are in a district like mine with a wide income spread.  We have families of 6 living on less than 20K a year and then we have families of 3 living on 100K.  That's a big difference.  [/quote][guardian]

In middle school/high school most kids buy lunch from school. My two MS kids buy because they are too lazy to pack their lunches, and they so that most of the other kids at their middle class school buy as well. [/quote]

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