Reply to Who in the school knows which students are on the free lunch program?

Forum Index » Schools and Education General Discussion

Reply to "Who in the school knows which students are on the free lunch program?"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]Are you saying that only the free-lunch kids buy, and everybody else packs? That's not my experience, in a medium-FARMS school. There are plenty of kids who live in expensive houses who buy. [/quote]

Not mine either. We live in a low ESOL (15%), low FARMS (&lt;10%) school area and [i]at least[/i] half the kids buy lunch every day. Our current school does not offer breakfast, but we used to live in a FCPS ES district that was similar (~10% FARMS, ~10% ESOL) and they did offer breakfast. That school started at 9:15 and breakfast was VERY popular with SACC kids who may have been there since 7:15/7:30. It was also a very social meeting time before school for a lot of kids.[/quote]

I think it all depends on whether children like the lunch, and the quality/health is good. I imagine it's a nice time saver for busy families. I've worked in a high poverty school where the UMC kids usually did not pack lunch for that reason. Some of the poor kids did pack lunches, usually lunchables. Sometimes they just brought in huge bag of chips and I'd insist they go get lunch because chips along does not make a good diet.[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics