It's legal. She goes to a private, catholic school and they're not big enough. Her next school will be public and will have a cafeteria,
Is it because it's a private school?
This concept is strange to me. I knew kids who wouldn't eat if it wasn't for school lunch. It hurts my heart to think some kids might be going hungry.
Yeah. The public school districts around us all have breakfast and lunch programs.
We're on the low-income side compared to the other families in our school. If there was a known issue with a child not having a lunch to eat, the teachers/school or families would step up to help.
Both. When I was in elementary school I think I usually gag lunch there, but it varied more as I got older. In HS I either brought lunch or went off campus and bought it.
This. We brown bagged it most of the time but would buy occasionally. I think we qualified for discounted lunch but still didn't do it often. Ever more rare was money for ice cream.
Post by exploding people on Sept 17, 2014 12:43:37 GMT -5
My siblings and I did both. When we brought our own lunches, we made them ourselves. Our school also had a separate a la carte area where you could pay cash for various things that weren't part of the regular lunch, so I did that quite a bit as well.
Post by udscoobychick on Sept 17, 2014 13:19:53 GMT -5
*nerd alert* I brown-bagged it because for the vast majority of high school, I took classes every single available period, so I would just eat lunch during class. My parents had to sign every year that they were ok with me not having a lunch time. My middle and grade schools were too small to have a cafeteria, so I brown-bagged it then, too.
I used vintage lunch boxes in high school to bring my lunch. Close encounters of the third kind, Indiana Jones, I have a ton of them.
If I didn't have time to make anything, I would buy it.
I just realized this morning that DS has so many lunch boxes that he could use a different one every day for a good week and a half... in kindergarten.