School bans bringing lunch from home

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Originally Posted by Danzig

the schools here started giving free lunches to everyone a few years back. they felt that some were feeling stigmatized by having to fill out forms-so they just opened the program to everyone. that i agreed with; there are too many kids who depend on school breakfast and lunch as their only decent meals of the day.
however, i don't agree with banning lunches from home. i'm sure that has more to do with putting $$ in the program, and less to do with nutritional concerns.

Agreed! Some local school boards come up with ill conceived plans still.