NEED FOOD? Seattle Public Schools student-meal program changes

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Throughout the summer, Seattle Public Schools has continued to offer student meals for pickup at some local campuses and for delivery via some school-bus routes. Starting today, the district has cut back on the bus deliveries. Now there’s just one bus route in West Seattle for meal delivery – this one. The 11 am-1 pm weekday pickups availability continues at West Seattle Elementary, Denny International Middle School, Chief Sealth International and West Seattle High Schools. The district says it’s working to add more sites soon – the meals are available at 26 schools around the city now, and they’re hoping to expand to 40.

ACG August 24, 2020 (5:25 pm)

Seems strange that both Denny and Sealth are meal locations (since they have a shared campus). It seems that it might be more helpful to have only one of them have meals and have a different school in WS added as another location so that there are more geographic regions covered In WS. I thought that any student could get a meal at any location (not just at their assigned school), so having them spread out on the peninsula might serve more kids.

Sam August 26, 2020 (8:41 am)

It says soon they will give out food to 40 locations (hoping too). It probably not that easy to give weekly boxes 📦 of food for students who currently qualify for the entire school district. The school district has to put a weeks worth of food in a box per student who gets free food, and the school district also will be getting more students whose parents have not yet filled out the forms to get free and reduced breakfast and lunch ( people normally paid for school lunch but now without a job). Remember one fact most things in school district take a long time.

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