It started out to offer kids hot lunch, then grew to feed lunch to poor kids, now it feeds all kids lunch and
in some schools breakfast too.
Not exact matches
There are so many millions of children who not only eat lunch at
school but, even when I was
in elementary
school (I'm 28 now) we had a
breakfast program where lower - income kids would eat
breakfast at
school too.
«Kids don't eat
breakfast for many reasons: they don't like to eat when they first wake up, they don't have time
in the mornings, their bus arrives
too late to visit the cafeteria, and those that qualify for free and reduced price meals don't partake because of the stigma associated with eating
breakfast at
school.
Find the
School Nutrition Foundation on Facebook and Twitter, and don't forget to find the Partners for
Breakfast in the Classroom on Facebook and Twitter,
too!
Did you wake up this morning
in a hurry, rapidly eating your
breakfast while multitasking getting yourself ready, possibly helping your child get ready for the
school too and storming off to work already distressed?
But numerous obstacles can prevent children from eating
school meals: many students arrive at
school too late to eat
breakfast in the cafeteria, before the
school day begins.; children may feel a stigma that
school meals are just for «poor kids»; children may need to pay a co-payment for
breakfast and lunch that their families can not afford.
So if you eat
breakfast, you'll start that process earlier, and you will actually burn energy faster during the day and feel better
too; and you'll actually do better
in school.
The researchers also compared sugary ready - to - eat cereal to oatmeal and found oatmeal's nutritional advantage (more nourishing whole food meal) made it a better choice at improving brain power and encouraging better test scores.1 Additional stats show higher test grades and better
school attendance
in breakfast eaters than
in non-
breakfast eaters
too.2 Bottom line: to excel
in whatever we do, whether it be
school, work, play or relationships, we need
breakfast to be at the top of our mental game.
Unfortunately, barriers like when and how it's served, or stigma around needing the meals, are keeping
too many from accessing
school breakfast in its traditional method.
The
school took on the challenge of NCLB stating that 12 years was
too long to wait to improve student achievement for the 400 students that attended the urban elementary
school (100 % Free
Breakfast and Lunch, 99 % African American students)
in an underprivileged community.
The report notes that it is never
too late
in the
school year to make the transition to
Breakfast in the Classroom.
Although one can find heroic exceptions here and there (generally
in schools led by extraordinary, beat - the - odds and damn - the - torpedoes principals), far
too many public
schools in tough neighborhoods and poor communities fail to get beyond the challenges of discipline, truancy, turnover of both students and staff, the ever - present risk of drop - outs, students» lack of basic skills, and such fundamental human needs as feeding
breakfast to kids who come to
school with empty stomachs.
Ahh, gets up
in the morning and jumps all over my bed, time for
school, no
too early yet, has
breakfast and then comes to
school, first time he used to cry a bit but they went through a stage where they got him out of the crying.
... he gets up
in the morning and comes all over my bed, «time for
school», «no
too early», has
breakfast and then comes to
school.
I know that things may change as my kids get older and get jobs, are involved
in more extra curricular programs at
school, and other teenager - y things but for now we are lucky to eat
breakfast and dinner together as a family every day (lunches
too in the summer).