Quote:My kids have "free" lunch.  "Free" breakfast and lunch, in fact.  (This is one of the better Duval schools.)

 

Not because we qualify as a family, but because the school as a whole "qualifies" (% of children from qualifying families meets a certain threshold.)

 

Our tax dollars at work.  I don't care the percentage, those who are able to pay should.  I don't need or want a handout.

 

But it's "paid" regardless, and yes we do pack our kids' lunch.

 

Long gone were the days where it was run like a business/kitchen, and everything was made from scratch like my Grandmother did as head cook at school.  Things went from fresh, to frozen, to mandated institutional today.

 

Interesting.  When I was in elementary school, I seem to remember that lunches were like $0.10 or $0.15.  I remember my mother giving us money to pay for our lunches for the month, and it was usually only around a couple of dollars.

 

When I got a bit older, I used to take my lunch to school (through grades 6-8).  When I got to high school I had a choice of either packing a lunch or buying it, and I seem to recall it costing around $1.00 or so for a cafeteria meal.

 

Breakfast was never available when I was growing up, only lunches and I remember that they were usually pretty good.

 

I don't remember how much we paid for our children's lunches when they were in school.  I do remember that as they got older, my wife used to pack a lunch for them.

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