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If they weren’t buying the school lunch before, they probably didn’t start now because it dropped from $2.35 to free. It’s crappy food. I taught in a W feeder for 6 years. Almost 80% of the students brought a lunch from home. The majority of those who bought any food from the cafeteria did so a la carte so they might add milk or fries to the food packed from home. They weren’t eating cheese dippers or the spicy chicken patty. The FARMs kids ate those so it was very easy to tell who was poor if they ate school lunch every day. [/quote]

How did you know who was a "FARMs kid"?[/quote]

We all can access that data now because looking at subgroups is required by our SIPs and SLOs.[/quote]

I had to pull it up, but here is one example of wording from last year’s SIP:

“Hispanic males who receive FARMS will increase proficiency in reading”

Unfortunately, every teacher except for math is now considered a reading teacher. To make sure that the teachers can track the progress of this targeted subgroup and offer extra support, we all have to log into a program and pull up our rosters. Then you check some criteria and the program generates a list of all the students who meet those. It is interesting to do. Once I forgot to check Hispanic and learned that one of my white male students received FARMS. However, the family seemed affluent based on the home address and the boy’s clothing. Turned out they were living with grandparents. Both parents had mental health and substance abuse issues so they didn’t work and got disability. With that his parents’ income was so low that he qualified. He didn’t eat the school meals though. I think the family filled out the application because that status also waived fees for a lot of things. [/quote]

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