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[quote=Anonymous]My youngest is currently at Riverside Elementary - I've had children at the school since 2005.  It is our base school.  The school has always served breakfast (at least since 2005.)  However, in order to get a free breakfast or free lunch, you had to fill out the paperwork to qualify for free or reduced lunch.  If my DS wanted breakfast, he had to pay for it.  Just like he has to pay for lunch.

Our PTA has a budgeted cafeteria fund.  If a child goes to get lunch and does not have money and is not registered for a free lunch, they go hungry.  The PTA fund was set up to give those kids a free lunch.  The school was not allowed to just give the child a free lunch.  The cafeteria workers would write the child's name down and pass it on to the front office.  A staff member would contact the family and find out if they just forgot to send in money that day or if the family was in need.  If the family is in need, the school would work with them to fill out the appropriate paperwork.  My DS's lunch balance is zero - I forget to replenish it.  He goes to buy lunch.  No money on his account.  Instead of going hungry, he gets lunch and the cafeteria workers write his name down.  I get a phone call from the office.  I send in $5 the next day to "repay" the PTA cafeteria fund.  His classmate goes to get lunch.  No money.  She gets lunch.  The school calls the family.  The family doesn't know about the federal food program and doesn't have the money for lunch.  They work with them to fill out the paperwork.  She now gets free breakfast and lunch every day.

Earlier this school year, Riverside sent home a flyer about free breakfast for all.  This is a new program at the school.  My DS may now get a free breakfast every morning, if he chooses.  He said that every morning two students would go to the cafeteria and bring back two boxes of food.  One would be a box full of milk.  The other would be the breakfast: pancakes, bagels, cereal, etc.  Before this breakfast program was initiated, in order to eat breakfast, you had to go to the cafeteria and go through the food line.

I have not been to the lunch program at Riverside.  After reading this thread, I am going up to the school this week to check out the program and see how many people are eating lunch.
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