Key takeaway
"About half of all U.S. public schoolchildren rely on free or reduced-price meals. Now, as school officials try to maintain emergency meal programs in the face of the coronavirus pandemic, they must choose between potentially allowing children to go hungry or risking exposing them to infection"
@LibertySpeaks I tried many different ways to get meals to my students during this pandemic and our six week summer program. The problem I faced was the students did not have transportation during the days to come and get the meals. To actually deliver to their doors was not within our budget. Plus the restrictions and lack of guidance from USDOE made it even more difficult.
@LibertySpeaks We all came up with the idea of getting students "food cards".. re-loadable. But that was nixed at the beginning. It wasn't until I was in my 5th week of my program that USDOE "changed" their minds and said it was okay. Oh. Nice The hoops of approvals that I have to go thru in order to get these cards.. would not happen until well into August. I am so disgusted with the system and lack of leadership and guidance on all points.
@MrsE0113 @LibertySpeaks
This is one of the reasons I was highly successful as a Military Officer, yet got tepid results as a Principal...I was not different in terms of style or demands, in the military, peeps get direction and they carry out orders specifically, in open systems, peeps do their own interpretation of what they think is correct.
America's military would have solved this crisis long ago...