We had to eat rice.
We had rice.

We had to eat beans!
We had beans.

My children were no longer given summer visas to Europe.
My children no longer cried themselves to sleep.

https://carla.umn.edu/cobaltt/lessonplans/attachments/139/poem.pdf

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is what it says in the reopening school guide:

“All meals will be provided free of charge during the 2021-2022 school year. MCPS will continue to provide breakfast, lunch and dinner meals to all students in schools and at designated food distribution sites.”

MCPS will provide free dinner to kids at home school? What are they for, for kids staying late at school, like after school activities or after school care or more for teachers that stay late at school? Interesting.....

For the food insecure to take home.

Anonymous wrote:So based on this menu, sounds like a hot lunch:
https://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/uploadedFiles/departments/food-and-nutrition/menus/First%20Week%20Elementary%20English.pdf

Give it to me straight guys- is my kindergartener going to want to eat this? Doesn't look super healthy but not something I want to battle my 5yo over either, or waste my time packing a lunch he's going to not eat because he just takes the free lunch anyway.

We don't know how picky your kid is so?

So based on this menu, sounds like a hot lunch:
https://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/uploadedFiles/departments/food-and-nutrition/menus/First%20Week%20Elementary%20English.pdf

Give it to me straight guys- is my kindergartener going to want to eat this? Doesn't look super healthy but not something I want to battle my 5yo over either, or waste my time packing a lunch he's going to not eat because he just takes the free lunch anyway.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:New to MCPS this year. How does breakfast work in ES? They eat in the cafeteria after they get off the bus? Or the classroom?

Ours was delivered to the classrooms, but schools may be doing things differently this year if there are concerns about kids eating unmasked in a small space. Check with your individual school.

DP. Yeah ours is in the classroom- lunch will be out on the bus loop sounds like but hard to do that for breakfast since buses are still coming and going. Just telling my kid not to eat it and keep the mask on.

I think that part of the dinner rationale might be carry-out, to ensure that anyone who needs it (for a whole host of possible reasons) doesn't go hungry in the evening.

Our individual ES just announced outdoor lunch plans that will let kids either bring their own lunch or get things from the school line, then take it all outside to a protected and supervised area to eat. Parents are very excited about the plan, which seems to address multiple needs and concerns in a logical way.

Anonymous wrote:Are they going to have the kids go through the cafeteria line or is it still grab and go like last year

If they’re doing hot food, that may be why some schools were resistant to outdoor lunches. At our ES, by the time kids got through the cafeteria line, they had about 10 minutes to eat sometimes. If they also had to line up and take their trays outside, lunch would be over by the time they got there.

Anonymous wrote:New to MCPS this year. How does breakfast work in ES? They eat in the cafeteria after they get off the bus? Or the classroom?

Ours was delivered to the classrooms, but schools may be doing things differently this year if there are concerns about kids eating unmasked in a small space. Check with your individual school.

For teachers that stay late at school......???????? Why would a teacher want that and why would the schools be feeding teachers. It's a grant from the USDA and it's for kids and their families. The food is not great unfortunately.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is what it says in the reopening school guide:

“All meals will be provided free of charge during the 2021-2022 school year. MCPS will continue to provide breakfast, lunch and dinner meals to all students in schools and at designated food distribution sites.”

MCPS will provide free dinner to kids at home school? What are they for, for kids staying late at school, like after school activities or after school care or more for teachers that stay late at school? Interesting.....