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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We began PK3 last year at at Title 1 school last year and packed lunch. Kid comes home one day and says all of the pink (white) kids pack lunch and the brown (black) kids get free lunch together. I went in and talked to the teacher, who did confirm that there was a perfect racial split for packed vs school lunch in the classroom, which also meant they sat by race since the teacher just served the free lunch at one table to half the kids. I talked with other parents, we stopped packing lunch, and our 3 and 4 year olds stopped being segregated at lunch time. I don't know if the food was great, but he never came home hungry and I hate the dynamic we had set up.[/quote]

Your choice, but it's not good enough for my family.  The dynamic that's been set up is that some people don't care enough to provide their children with a healthy lunch.  Somehow it's complicated to make a turkey sandwich on whole wheat with lettuce and tomato.  It's too expensive to buy fresh fruit or applesauce.  Yogurt is too time-consuming to grab out of the freezer and put in a lunch bag.

I really hated it when the teachers at our Title I PS would give the breakfast to everyone - including my child.  Hello?  I already fed her at home and I DON'T WANT her learning to eat those unhealthy foods her classmates eat.  I don't want her to be a part of that fat culture.

Yuck.  Ultimately, it was another reason that made it so much easier for us to switch to an HRC when she got in.[/quote]

You know why the teacher would give the breakfast to everyone. Because we're required to! Relax just a little.

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