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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My city moved to free school lunch for all this year, and some schools are also offering a dinner option during aftercare.  I work for a non-profit that offers afterschool programming (college application support) to high school students and we may also be able to offer free meals.  It seems like studies are showing a positive effect, but there's no magic solution-and it seems like the people in power want to fund magic not incremental progress.

For the curious-other wrap around services include health care, support for parents applying for benefits, GED classes for parents, last year a few schools that had installed washers and dryers for student and parent use where getting a lot of attention.[/quote]

I teach third grade and have 24 students. On any given day I would say 2 or 3 get the school lunch.[b] It’s very unpopular[/b]. I don’t think any get the breakfast.[/quote]

My daughter is in third grade in a relatively well-off school, and a lot of kids from her grade, DD included, buy lunch at the school cafeteria. It is not free for us, and it is not 'unpopular'.

Makes me wonder why Title 1 kids don't eat food - for free - that our relatively more affluent children have to buy.[/quote]

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