Basically, free lunch for all.
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And breakfast...you nailed it on the head.
It used to be that title kids got free lunch, then they expanded it to breakfast also.
In effect Title students are being fed two meals a day (breakfast and lunch), despite their parents receiving Aid for Dependent Children and Food Stamps. This despite some perents selling food stamps or using them for other purposes, than feeding their children.
So, if we’re giving the parents food stamps to feed the children, and they are being fed two meals a day at school, why do we have “hungry kids in America”?
Some of these kids would sell their lunches to other non- Title students for less than the cost of the school lunch, and pocket the money for snacks after school, or other purposes. They may have even been forced to give the money to their parents...who knows.
Now if enough of a percentage of students at a school are Title students, the entire schoo is delared to be a Title School, and all students are fed at tax payers expense.
I believe the issue contained in the article is in reference to regular students (non title), who charge meals, and then the parents do not pay. Happens often.....
Hence, no student will pay for breakfast or lunch, under the new legislation in Massachusetts, no matter how well off the parents are financially.
“FREE???”...Sorry the rest of us pay.
Wouldn’t it have been wonderful, when we were children.
I dunno what’s wrong with some parents, but when my wife was working as special ed assistant she kept snacks in her drawers to give kids before they went home, because that was likely the last food they’d get until their school breakfast the next morning. Some of the kids were out and out feral.
Much as I hate the idea of ‘free stuff,’ free lunches and breakfasts for some of these kids seems like a good idea, because that’s most of the food they’ll get that day.