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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]DC has universal free breakfast--every school offers it for free, regardless of student family income makeup.

This is different than lunch.

Lunch is free at Title I schools--so if x% of students qualify for free or reduced-price meals at the school, everyone gets it for free. If the school is not Title I, those who qualify for free/reduced price receive it, other students have the option to buy lunch.  [/quote]

We were told differently at the open house we attended for our IB school. Every DCPS may prepare breakfast on site, but not every school serves it in class, and we were told that it is only free to qualifying children.  [/quote]

our JKLM school has free breakfast each morning for whoever child shows up for breakfast.  my kids don't get it because they have breakfast at home and usually get to school a few minutes before school starts, but breakfast is served every morning, I believe after 8am (school starts at 8.35)[/quote]

PP, do you have to get in to beforecare to use this service or can you just drop off your child even if you aren't signed up for beforecare?[/quote]

Not PP, but we do not have before care at our school (Murch). You can pay for before care at the church next door if you get a spot though. You may not drop off at school until 8:15. Students may not enter the building until 8:37 unless they are having breakfast. Breakfast is trucked in in the morning and served off of a cart in the hallway (no kitchen or cafeteria in the school); the 15 or so students (out of 630) who choose to have breakfast it eat it at a table in the hallway before the bell rings. I have no idea what the official rule is for supervision, but there are usually a few adults at or near the table. Everyone is allowed to have the free breakfast. Most kids eat at home and then play on the playground until the bell rings. Some kids will run by and grab a muffin when those are served though ;)[/quote]

This should probably be a new thread, but it's something I've wondered about. WHY do only 15 kids eat the free breakfast at Murch? Do their moms think the food is crap? Are they serving something at home that's infinitely healthier? Is there a stigma to eating school breakfast?

Also, does the same thing apply to school lunch? I was a school lunch kid growing up (still prefer hot lunch as an adult) and my kids eat school lunch at our EOTP DCPS school. But it seems like most of the kids from the better off families bring lunch. I feel like a lazy mom and I know my kids would like to take lunch, but I'm not sure it would be that much healther (plus it would be the same thing over and over probably). What is so bad about school lunch???  [/quote]

No stigmas. I think primarily the school is not set up to serve food. There is no cafeteria, no kitchen, the food comes in on a truck and is served in the hallway, then the kids eat at their desks. All of that probably does turn some people off. As it is, with very few kids getting lunch, the line is very long in the hallway and kids complain that by the time they get back to their desks with lunch there is no time to eat. If everyone tried to get lunch it would be a logistical disaster (how long would it take to serve 630 kids in a narrow hallway, even with staggered lunch periods?). But the kids who get school lunch seem to like it well enough. As for breakfast, same hallway set up, plus it seems that most kids walk to school after eating at home and want to play on the playground as long as possible before the school bell rings. Going in to breakfast would take away play time. For us, breakfast is family time. It is how we start our day together, then we walk to school and the kids play until the bell rings.[/quote]

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