Yep, this summer free meals all summer for ANY KID.
I bet hardly anyone shows up, but then again I guess I wouldn’t be surprised if they were packed either.
Just this week here in Pinellas County, Florida, I saw a big white school district van, with a sign on its side advertising free breakfasts and lunches all summer. The van was parked at a McDonald's and about 10 middle-school age children and a couple of adults were getting out and walking into it. And I thought Moochelle didn't want the kiddies to eat fast food on the taxpayer dime.
You know how they make kids around here show up for the free summer lunches and “prove” they’re needed?
All the kids that are attending summer school are given the choice to go to the cafeteria for the last half hour of class or sit through 30 more minutes of instruction. Of course they choose lunch. And the teacher gets to do nothing for the last half hour. And a summer school class is only 2 hours long to begin with.
And no food can leave the cafeteria. You must take all that is on the menu
that day and if you don’t like it in the trash it goes. If you’re full and want to save your apple for later, hide it or you’re made to throw it out. Does that sound like a system that really cares if a kid is hungry?
So at the end of the summer the stats show such a “need” for free lunch!
I know this because I have teacher friends who know it’s a scheme, too.