luvnlifelady
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Jun 26, 2014 2:34:35 GMT
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Post by luvnlifelady on Aug 14, 2015 1:08:14 GMT
I think it's great for kids that wouldn't have anything otherwise. However, at least at our school, the stuff is crap. My son won't even buy lunch. It's district wide so the schools all have the same nasty stuff.
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Kerri W
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Jun 25, 2014 20:31:44 GMT
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Post by Kerri W on Aug 14, 2015 1:14:45 GMT
Our district participates in this. It's called Community Eligibility Provision (CEP) and more than 40% of the students have to be "identified" students. CBPP.org
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Post by librarylady on Aug 14, 2015 1:19:24 GMT
The school where I worked when I retired had free breakfast for everyone--and delivered to the classroom as mentioned in a prior post. We did not have syrup for the waffles--the waffles were real sweet so that no syrup was needed.
There was a free lunch program, but the district decided that it was expensive to have someone hired to investigate, so if you filled out the papers, then your child got a free lunch. Many kids also had a backpack to take home on Friday which contained food for the weekend.
During the summer that school offers a free lunch for anyone under age 16 who came to eat.
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Post by gryroagain on Aug 14, 2015 1:22:58 GMT
I think it's awesome. DD (previously home schooled and has been since) went to a 2nd grade at a school that had it. And the school had a kitchen still, with lunch ladies who cooked! It was incredible, the food was so good. Lots of fried stuff (it was the deep South after all, lol) but it was fresh, home made, just wonderful. I originally felt guilty having DD eat the lunch when we wouldn't qualify for free lunch, but the obvious benefits to every kid having the same lunch, every day, no matter what, assuaged that guilt. Because it's so important that kids eat good. And it's important that every child is treated equally. There is a time in the wide world when we learn everything is not fair, but childhood should not be it.
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Post by bc2ca on Aug 14, 2015 1:36:02 GMT
I think that is great. We still have to apply for Free & Reduced or pay full price here, but the district had a free summer lunch program at multiple locations throughout the area this summer. Any kid under 18 who came was given a lunch.
Thankfully schools we have been in have never identified kids that were on Free or Reduced lunch programs. Every student has a district meal account number that is swiped when they go through the lunch line whether they are getting a free lunch or paying full price.
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Post by melanell on Aug 14, 2015 1:41:11 GMT
No, I've not heard of any districts in my area doing this. Considering that your district already had a lot of kids receiving free & reduced lunch, it does sound like a very good idea. It's a help & a kindness to those who were already requesting the help, and probably to some who were not requesting it, but who could use it.
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Post by leannec on Aug 14, 2015 1:50:22 GMT
We have no breakfast or lunch programs here ... you eat at home or bring your own ... and there are definitely hungry kids When I was teaching, we had the odd bagged lunch available for kids who needed it but it wasn't an everyday thing ...
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Post by RiverIsis on Aug 14, 2015 1:51:03 GMT
Nothing like that here. We have free, reduced and full price. Last year I was told that the full price was going to be going up even more to offset (not sure if that's the word I really want) the reduced price lunches. Senior citizens can have lunch at the middle school. Their lunch is higher priced than the kids reduced price but less than the kids full price. I think that a lot more kids would eat lunch if it was free for all of the kids. For one thing, it would make the line move faster and that's one of the reasons my kids no longer buy school lunch. You have to stand in that same line if you are buying just a milk or a water as well. I'll be interested to see if this pops up in more and more places. Free and reduced lunch is a Federal Subsidized program. If prices are going up it is costs that have gone up not a subsidy of the program.
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ginacivey
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Jun 25, 2014 19:18:36 GMT
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Post by ginacivey on Aug 14, 2015 1:58:24 GMT
It's a program from the USDA....
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ginacivey
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Post by ginacivey on Aug 14, 2015 2:01:19 GMT
And to those of you that decline to fill out the form... Fill it anyway even if you don't qualify... And you might be surprised that you might qualify for reduced. The guidelines are generous...
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johnnysmom
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Jun 25, 2014 21:16:33 GMT
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Post by johnnysmom on Aug 14, 2015 2:04:47 GMT
Ours has free breakfasts for all students but not lunch. I think it was a combination of the percentage of free/reduced lunch kids and the fact that so many kids were coming to school without breakfast for whatever reason. Mine does. Lots of kids come to school hungry. Oh I'm not judging. Even before the program my kid often went to school without breakfast, or at least without a good breakfast. He doesn't like to eat when he first gets up, I don't either.
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Post by ktdoesntscrap on Aug 14, 2015 2:08:25 GMT
Those lucky kids. Those may be the only meals they get during the week. And i know some districts send kids home with food on the weekend because they won't eat over the weekend if they don't. We send meals home... but Ilove the idea of every child being feed!!
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Post by Linda on Aug 14, 2015 2:11:30 GMT
our district had free breakfast/lunch at select (poorer) elementary schools last year - this year it's all elementary schoolsand one middle school.
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eastcoastpea
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Jun 27, 2014 13:05:28 GMT
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Post by eastcoastpea on Aug 14, 2015 3:07:28 GMT
Nothing like that here. We have free, reduced and full price. Last year I was told that the full price was going to be going up even more to offset (not sure if that's the word I really want) the reduced price lunches. Senior citizens can have lunch at the middle school. Their lunch is higher priced than the kids reduced price but less than the kids full price. I think that a lot more kids would eat lunch if it was free for all of the kids. For one thing, it would make the line move faster and that's one of the reasons my kids no longer buy school lunch. You have to stand in that same line if you are buying just a milk or a water as well. I'll be interested to see if this pops up in more and more places. Free and reduced lunch is a Federal Subsidized program. If prices are going up it is costs that have gone up not a subsidy of the program. Perhaps the person telling me that misunderstood the reason why. Thanks for giving me the correct information.
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perumbula
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Jun 26, 2014 18:51:17 GMT
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Post by perumbula on Aug 14, 2015 3:20:22 GMT
It's so nice to hear of so many other districts doing the same thing. I think it's great. There are things that I get annoyed about my taxes paying for but I never ever get annoyed about my money being used to feed children.
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