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Frazier's avatar

I truly believe that breakfast and lunch should be free. However must school food service departments are non school company who wants to be paid for their services. It is no fun for a school principal to be hit with a $3000, bill at the end of the year, but cannot use school funds to pay it off if they even have that amount left in their budget somewhere. Food Service don't cares who pays, they just want to be paid.

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TchrTam's avatar

My school has gotten a federal grant before to provide free breakfast and lunch to our high school kiddos (sorry, I can’t reference the name of the grant, but we did in fact start getting it several years pre-COVID). Also, I am aware of some districts that are able to leverage community partnerships with corporations (which often are required to pay zero taxes) to provide this service. It’s a win win, because even though the corporations aren’t paying taxes, they are still supporting schools for the public good, AND they benefit when those kids graduate prepared to enter the workforce.

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