Re: Restaurants in My Pocket!

Dan Abel wrote:

In article <TTanl.30755$6r1.22012@xxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Kathleen <khhfmdeletethis@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


Dan Abel wrote:


I'll always stop to pick up change and add it to the handful in my pocket. A few quarters will buy lunch for a student who might otherwise be eating the free PB&J sandwich our district offers to those kids without cash. It'll also buy protein snacks out of the vending machines for kids at our alternative high school who haven't eaten since lunch yesterday and can't think straight during the morning hours.


School lunch at the local schools is now US$3.50. That's 14 quarters or 350 pennies. It used to be US$2.50 but that wasn't working. Most kids in the lunch program are subsidized. The district gets about US$1.00 for each subsidized lunch. So PB&J it was, for US$2.50. They came frozen, in giant boxes. The kids and their parents weren't willing to pay US$2.50. So, they've upgraded the food considerably. But they just can't attract enough students at US$3.50. Everybody knows that kids need to have food in their stomachs to be able to learn, but the State of California cuts education funding every year, and the cuts have to come from somewhere.


Lunch at our high schools costs $1.95 - 8 quarters. I can dig twice that out of the bottom of my purse on any given day.

Reduced cost (low income) lunch is $0.40. Their student ID#s are in the computer but sometimes they don't even have the $0.40.

Daily offerings include:
Chicken Patty
Hamburger
Cheeseburger
Cheese Pizza
Pepperoni Pizza
Specialty Pizza
Chicken Tacos
Beef Tacos

The chicken tacos are a hell of a deal for the price. Chicken, beans, rice, cheese, lettuce, jalapenos, salsa and sour cream piled into soft tortillas (you get two), or over a boat of nacho chips, plus your choice of a side item, a drink, and access to the "fixin's bar" stocked with extra lettuce, tomatoes, peppers, etc.

The menu for Feb:
http://tinylink.com/?pqMSpAPFF8

So yeah, I pick up change when I see it, you betcha, and I find ways to pass it on... "Hey, you need to make sure your back pack is zipped up. I found this on the floor behind your desk."

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