An Indiana school district is taking steps to make sure kids have enough to eat.
Students usually get breakfast and lunch at school, but on the weekends at home, they may be without food.
Elkhart Schools is teaming up with a South Bend-based food rescue, Cultivate, for a pilot program to provide weekend meals to a small group of students at Woodland Elementary.
"Mostly we rescue food that's been made, but never served by catering companies, large food service businesses, like the school system," said Jim Conklin. "You don't always think of a school system."
They'll rescue the unused food at the school.
"Over-preparing is just part of what happens," said Conklin. "We take that well-prepared food, combine it with other food and make individual frozen meals out of it."
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9 comments:
Damn good idea.
Not smart enough to do that here.
Fantastic idea. I'm sure it wasn't a bureaucrat who thought of it - probably a student who hasn't learned yet that new ideas don't work.
Maybe we should listen to kids more. Their minds aren't tainted yet with political discourse.
Because if we did that here, someone would bitch "That's just the BOE spending more money for ungrateful, low-income kids..." or something like that. You want more positives here, then quit being so negative...
Finally! This makes such perfect sense. The boards of education are rife with waste and it is incumbent on the kitchen staffs to get as close to actual meals necessary as possible. Sometimes (perhaps more often then not) they miss. Also food reaches a point when it cannot be served. So much goes into the dumpsters with severe recrimination if any staff makes an attempt to salvage for personal use or offer to those less fortunate. This practice by Elkhart Schools should become mandate.
If the parents would leave the drugs alone they might have enough money to feed their children.
The elephant in the room says, why the hell can't the parents feed their own children
This would be a great idea if it would lower the amount they get from food stamps. We would save money and would be assured the child is getting something to eat at the same time.
It'll take someone with some smarts to put this together around here.
I think that Bob Culver should discuss it with the County Council, BOE and state representatives. It might be smart to reach out to the organization(s) doing this in Indiana to find out the details.
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