Here’s What Happens To Kids When They Get To Eat Before School Every Day

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13. The point stands.

I have poor kids in my classes whose parents won't sign up for free/reduced meals.

I have kids who show up late and don't get their free/reduced means.

See that part of the graphic that points this kind of thing out?

Then again, I have kids whose parents combined income is well over $200k/year and who come to school hungry. They get up, they fuss with their hair, they pick out their clothes, they text, they meet their boyfriend/girlfriend. Somehow food doesn't enter into the picture. And no parent says, "You, sit, eat this."


Then again, I'd like to see the research behind this. Too often people read the conclusions without noticing the definitions, the sample, and the statistics. It's like the "early childhood intervention" debacle, where EC programs are demanded by everybody when they have a large effect on one group, a significant effect on a somewhat larger group, but have few long-term effects of any size on any group.