1GoldenSun
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- Jun 17, 2017
The local schools are providing a bagged breakfast/lunch to area children; all you have to do is drive through the drop-off/pick-up line at the nearest school, open your trunk, roll down your window a bit and tell them (from a distance) how may children you're picking up for (and you could probably just hold up a number of fingers), and they put the meals in your trunk. We live in an area in which the schools provide free breakfast for all children, but free and reduced lunches are need-based. This current program is being advertised as for ALL children.
At first I was skeptical because I thought they were probably just opening it up to everyone because it would be too hard to ask people to prove that they're eligible for free lunch. But the emails and Facebook posts really seem to be pushing that this is for everyone.
Well, I was out with my son today (for a social distance compliant, very legitimate reason) and we were driving by the elementary school that's right down the street from my house (son's old school, he started middle school this year) and I decided to pull in and see what it's all about. This was at a time toward the end of the scheduled pickup time, and we were the only people there and they had tons of food left. There were three workers to hand out the food, all wearing gloves, and a police officer posted at both entrances to the school. They seemed so happy to see us, thanked us for coming, and told me to tell others about the program.
My son was so thrilled! I think it provided just a little bit of normalcy to eat a school lunch, even though he almost never gets the school lunch; I always make his lunch, haha. He was like "oh I remember these, I love these" over the little juice pouches, and he said the school pizza tasted just like he remembered.
So what do you guys think, is it ok to take advantage of this, or is it "taking advantage" in a bad way. We don't need the food, in reality. And although they had so much food there today that it looked like some was definitely going to end up going to waste (the fresh stuff, anyway), I'm sure they would eventually adjust the numbers of meals prepared based on how many people are showing up. On the other hand, it would only take me five minutes or so to run up there in the morning and grab the food for him and his sister, and it really saves me the time and the aggravation of being pestered for food all day while I'm trying to get work done. And it would be a tiny bit of excitement in an otherwise very predictable day--what is the meal going to be today? Plus, it's a safe reason to get out of the house for just a few minutes each day.
Would you take the food or not?
At first I was skeptical because I thought they were probably just opening it up to everyone because it would be too hard to ask people to prove that they're eligible for free lunch. But the emails and Facebook posts really seem to be pushing that this is for everyone.
Well, I was out with my son today (for a social distance compliant, very legitimate reason) and we were driving by the elementary school that's right down the street from my house (son's old school, he started middle school this year) and I decided to pull in and see what it's all about. This was at a time toward the end of the scheduled pickup time, and we were the only people there and they had tons of food left. There were three workers to hand out the food, all wearing gloves, and a police officer posted at both entrances to the school. They seemed so happy to see us, thanked us for coming, and told me to tell others about the program.
My son was so thrilled! I think it provided just a little bit of normalcy to eat a school lunch, even though he almost never gets the school lunch; I always make his lunch, haha. He was like "oh I remember these, I love these" over the little juice pouches, and he said the school pizza tasted just like he remembered.
So what do you guys think, is it ok to take advantage of this, or is it "taking advantage" in a bad way. We don't need the food, in reality. And although they had so much food there today that it looked like some was definitely going to end up going to waste (the fresh stuff, anyway), I'm sure they would eventually adjust the numbers of meals prepared based on how many people are showing up. On the other hand, it would only take me five minutes or so to run up there in the morning and grab the food for him and his sister, and it really saves me the time and the aggravation of being pestered for food all day while I'm trying to get work done. And it would be a tiny bit of excitement in an otherwise very predictable day--what is the meal going to be today? Plus, it's a safe reason to get out of the house for just a few minutes each day.
Would you take the food or not?