"Chow bus! Chow bus! Chow bus!" chants Gunner Fischer, 3, as a custom-painted school bus rounds the corner and rumbles toward his apartment complex in Murfreesboro, Tenn.
About 21 million students nationwide eat free and reduced-price meals throughout the school year, but getting those same kids fed during the summer is a challenge. Only a fraction of those make it to schools or community centers for summer meals.
So some school districts are getting creative in the way they're using USDA funds: Murfreesboro City Schools is taking the cafeteria to the kids. The district calls it the Combating Hunger on Wheels Bus — or the CHOW bus.
Gunner has spent the last 30 minutes chasing his sisters with a toy sword, waiting on breakfast. His face is smeared with chocolate, remnants of the cookies he's already been into this morning.
The words CHOW bus have replaced the school bus sign over the windshield. It's blue and green with a food-themed mural on the side. Inside, some seats have been replaced with tables. And the bus is air conditioned so kids don't have to sweat through their Lucky Charms and chocolate milk. Yes, that's considered a nutritious breakfast by the USDA.
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4 comments:
my parents fed me. it wasn't cookies and lucky charms either
"Gunner has spent the last 30 minutes chasing his sisters with a toy sword..."
And it isn't on YouTube and he hasn't been suspended from school, or his parents punished for letting him have a toy sword?
Where are the Liberals?? Why has no up-and-coming "journalist" jumped on this to further his/her career?
and where did he get a cookie? that is not on the 'good food' list, is it? sounds like a parent needs to be brought up on charges for endangering the welfare of a child.
Snap, WIC and all the other freebees aren't enough I assume.
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