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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Well over half are either in ESOL or are Hispanic https://wtop.com/montgomery-county/2019/07/montgomery-co-public-schools-have-a-dropout-problem-heres-why/[/quote]

Well I guest the response to this topic says it: who cares?

I am not being sarcastic. I truly believe that if these students and/or their families do not care, others should not (yes, SHOULD not - or at least PUBLIC RESOURCES should not be used to deal with this).[/quote]

They care, but often they are facing very immediate economic needs that can’t wait two to three years to address. A third income earner can make the difference between rent or eviction, vegetables and fruit or malnutrition. This was not an unusual pattern in white immigrant families two generations ago. My XH’s grandmother left school at 15 to work FT in a store. Her sacrifice made it possible for the family to survive and her younger siblings to graduate HS. T[/quote]

Many schools provide three meals to kids on FARMs.[/quote]

There is no such thing as a school provided dinner for FARMS students. I work in a high FARMS elementary school. Many kids on FARMS don't even eat the free breakfast. They don't get to school early enough to have it. You can imagine how that goes when some students have lunch at 1pm. Totally unavailable to learn. But we can't force parents to get their kids to school early enough to eat breakfast. We try, and even go as far as providing alarm clocks to families who are chronically late, but we don't live in their houses with them and can't physically get them there. Sometimes I will send kids up to the nurse when I know they haven't had breakfast and lunchtime is far away. I write a code word on the note and the nurse knows that means to provide some pretzels she keeps in the health room for students with low blood sugar. But they miss instructional time and then you have to be careful about it becoming an expectation and habit. My principal doesn't allow snack time in classrooms due to inequity (some kids would bring snack but the ones who need it most won't), and also due to insect/rodent issues. But kids need food so I have come up with this plan. Some other teachers in my building keep a secret stash of snacks in their rooms and find a way to sneak it to kids.

FWIW the students I see this the most with are not necessarily the immigrant families. Many are AA kids living in a single parent household. [/quote]

Yes some MCPS schools provide dinner.  Blair is one of them.  I do not know how many others but assume they are not the only one.[/quote]

Thank you!  I was at an NEC high school that served "dinner" at 3 pm.

Kids would often show up to first period with their breakfast trays (filled with crap, I'll add).

sad, I'll say - as the food in general is terrible for these kids - But they do indeed get three meals, however you wish to define "meal."[/quote]

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