Column: We can afford to pay. We feel guilty the money isn’t used somewhere it can do more good. And we worry about health.
School breakfast menus have featured croissant sandwiches and chocolate chip muffins, yogurt parfaits and fresh baked cinnamon rolls, scrambled eggs and pancakes.We know that more than half of California’s public school students have qualified for free and reduced price lunches. And that hungry kids don’t learn as well as kids with full bellies. And that free meals for all can ease any stigma clinging to kids who really need them.
• This year, it will spend more than $4 billion, even as enrollment is down some 8%, according to data from the California Department of Education. And as the parent of a kid who has wrestled with weight issues — and the resident of a state where nearly one of every three children is overweight or obese — we worry. After classrooms reopened post-pandemic in 2021 and free meals were available, my kid channeled her inner, ever-ravenous, Scooby-Doo. Kid ate breakfast at home and packed lunch. Grabbed another breakfast at school and a bagged lunch as well.
UC Irvine professor of education Mark Warschauer doesn’t claim expertise here, but is inclined to agree. “On the face of things, yes, it seems wasteful and unnecessary to offer free meals to families such as mine, which can easily afford them,” he said by email. “On the other hand, here are some countervailing issues to consider.”
Funding is based on the number of students who are English learners or low-income and is intended for learning recovery initiatives through 2027-28. As a condition of receiving money, each school must periodically submit expenditure reports, with a final report due on Dec. 1, 2029, she said. schools have failed to spend the money on the kind of high-quality, one-on-one tutoring that can reverse learning loss,As UCI’s Duncan noted, “It takes a lot of planning to pull off a high-quality tutoring effort.”Meantime, the push for universal — and healthier — meals is transforming school kitchens all over California.
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