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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The food quality issue is most important at Title 1 schools.  A school is determined to be Title 1 if they have a significant number of students whose families can not afford to feed them.  Thus the school takes on the responsibility for ensuring their nutrition.  This is one of the most basic wrap around services that there is, and it isn't hard to do.  Schools that provide nutritionally unsound choices are failing the students, both in terms of their nutrition and their nutritional education.  These are fundamental responsibilities of Title 1 schools.

Many of the families who need these services are not prepared to stand up for their rights on this.  They are, by definition, low income and the vast majority are out working hard to maintain shelter for their families.  They have neither the time nor the incentive to stand up for these issues.  Many are just happy that there children are not hungry.  It is the responsibility of the rest of society to insist that they not just be fed, but be fed in a nutritional way.  [/quote]

I agree that food quality at these schools is important--I'm at a Title 1 school where everyone gets free meals (regardless of income), and that is breakfast, lunch, snacks, and supper for those who are in the free aftercare. But I don't blame the school for the Trix yogurt or the juice that replaces fresh fruit in some of the meal--that's squarely on central office, which lets Chartwells get away with it. Chartwells provides food for almost all the schools in DC, and I doubt that the West of the Park schools are getting something better than we are at my very high-poverty DCPS. [/quote]

Not PP. I'd agree with that, but would also suspect that WOTP, there are fewer kids overall eating the Chartwells food than at our schools EOTP.

Also, I think that food quality is important.[b] I do not necessarily agree that it is the MOST important thing to focus on at a Title 1 school.[/b] If the yogurt crusader would like to bang her head against Chartwells and Central Office, I am all for that, but if you guys are seriously taking up the time of a principal at a school with a lot of other issues like this is the single most important issue, I really do not know how to respond to that.[/quote]

Oh, I fully agree with you. I was just pointing out that it's not a school that should be blamed for the food--that needs to be taken further up to central office. I do think that DCPS-run aftercare should not allow screen time regularly; that seems like it could easily be replaced with something more meaningful (even if it is more outdoor time/gym time, which I think the kids in our DCPS-run aftercare could use more of).[/quote]

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