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[quote=Anonymous]So back to the fundamental question - why are parents around here so worried about kids who receive a free lunch..

1) They want their own kids to associate with the children of their own social strata for the purposes of social networking at PTA and other school functions.

2) They know "free lunch" is a code word MCPS uses to continue the institutionalization of racist social experiments (ie. Rosemary Hills).

3) They believe, as has been illustrated in the most recent posts that kids who get free lunch come from economically disadvantaged homes.  These parents have "connected the dots" and understand that because these homes are economically disadvantaged these children are therefore more likely (though, admittedly, not universally guaranteed) to be subjected to the mal-environment. These same parents realize that being in that type of environment can impact the way a child deals with the world and others around them.  These same parents have worked hard to achieve their station in life, or at the very least are working very hard to treat their children properly, don't want THEIR children subjected to those increased odds of associating with kids that come from and are influenced by these environments.

4) Due to the effects of #3 above, the believe of some parents is that it's not just the social experience, but that the classroom learning experience itself is at a greater risk (though again, not a universal guarantee - simply an increased risk) of being compromised by the lower income students.

I do subscribe in part to at least 1 of these bullets, but certainly not all 4.  However, I would present these bullets as an answer to the original posters question as to why some parents are so concerned about free meals.

I don't know how things roll these days with the students in the schools, but I will say that as a kid growing up in MCPS in the 80s we couldn't care less about the kids eating a free lunch and breakfast.  Relative to the big deal parents make of it, it was one of the furthest things on our minds as we went about our school day.

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