The line of cars usually begins to form well before 11 a.m. outside Sharon Elementary school in Newburgh, Indiana, a town of less than 4,000 people along the Ohio River.
Although nearly half of America’s schoolchildren were on free or reduced lunch before the pandemic, school shutdowns eliminated the revenue that came from other children whose families paid for the meals. “Honestly, we haven’t been able to get past looking at today, day by day and week by week,” Rowe said. “We just keep going.”In Orlando, Florida, where nearly three-quarters of students at Orange County Public Schools qualified for free or reduced-price lunch, Laura Gilbert said her food service program nonetheless brought in $2.2 million from paid lunches in March of last year.
For years Gilbert had worked to keep product and labor costs down wherever she could while offering students meals like freshly baked pizzas, hummus from scratch and trendy dishes like Korean stir-fry tacos. About 80% of the approximate 6,000 students in the district are low-income, a percentage so high that it qualifies all students for free meals.
According to a recent survey of nearly 2,000 school districts across the country, nearly half of school districts offering emergency meals serve them only once a week. Rowe decided on the latter, but that alone was an undertaking that involved opening a separate kitchen to allocate two food prep workers whose full-time job it is to slice apples, kiwis, celery sticks and other fruits and vegetables for the meals the Antey family and others depend on.While a cumbersome undertaking in Indiana, where Rowe’s team serves 1,000 meals daily, such an effort would require 100 times the effort in Orlando.
Katie Wilson, executive director of the Urban School Food Alliance, says the 12 large school districts in her association, which includes Orlando, are losing $38.9 million a week by serving food to their students during the school closures. A group of mothers and several nonprofits responded by suing the island’s Department of Education, accusing it of dodging its responsibility to feed the island’s nearly 300,000 public schoolchildren.
EndLunchDebt The GOP’s domestic terrorists continue to wreck this country.
facts 100% of children going hungry is the parent(s) fault. They need to stand in front of their children as good examples rather than hide behind them for 'free' stuff. End unearned entitlements/welfare and force personal responsibility again.
We can afford to feed prisoners 3 meals a day yet for kids suddenly we're checking the books to make sure everything is profitable
Was feeding children supposed to be profitable? Dam and wow, this is what you thought was the important part of this pandemic?
Yet American celebrities raising money to fund rioters instead of feeding the children. George soros club puppet don’t care about humanity, they want chaos to cover up things that more important and try to destroy people who fight for real citizens like realDonaldTrump
We have appreciated it in my family, but how can it continue? Many children will be going hungry and more.
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