Skipped Meals
Started walking with the kids and Mom yesterday morning. We get up around 6am and walk for close to half of an hour,then head home. That leaves Morgan time to shower and dress before the bus picks him up at seven.
Maegan has time to eat before catching her bus. Which is a good thing. Her bus driver told us Tuesday that Maegan’s pick up time was going to be a little earlier from now on because, apparently, the cafeteria had been closing before she dropped Maegan and the rest of the little ones off at Helen Paul.
I don’t understand how the people in the cafeteria were ok with an entire bus load of kids missing breakfast. Sure, some of the kids may have eaten before catching the bus, but I bet most of the kids were supposed to be eating at school. I sure wasn’t feeding Maegan before school. I expected the school to do what it said it would and feed her breakfast and lunch everyday. And Maegan said exactly nothing about not getting any breakfast at all for a week. She’s only six years old, and by the time she gets home at four in the afternoon, she’s not thinking about what happened ( or in this case didn‘t happen) at breakfast time.
It’s hard enough feeding your kids right without the school trying a starvation diet on them. Sure, I would like to see the school cut out some of the less-than-healthy menu items that they’re forced to serve due to budgetary restraints. I don’t like hearing that they’ve cut an entire meal service. Saving money is one thing, starving children is an entirely different matter.
And, yes, the principal did hear about this. Which is why the new bus schedule this week.
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