Page County parents frustrated with school meals as year starts off [View all]
Over the last two school days, parents of Page County Public Schools have expressed their concerns about the quality of lunches students have received at school.
Images sent in by parents showed students received carrots, bread, and peanut butter as a part of Monday’s lunch in a plastic bag.
With Tuesday being the second day of school many parents went to social media asking why this was not on the menu they received before the school year started.
A letter regarding the meals was posted on Facebook Tuesday afternoon. In it, Superintendent Dr. Antonia Fox says the county is experiencing staffing shortages and has fewer hands to prepare meals.
At the same time, she says the school division is facing a food shortage with the distributor the school division works with.
https://www.whsv.com/2021/08/24/page-county-parents-frustrated-with-school-meals-year-starts-off/
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Here is what I was told by a Page County woman:
It was sunbutter on a hamburger bun and a plastic bag of carrots. Period. That was what the kids got. Those who brought their lunches were not allowed to buy milk "because of shortages". She opined that it didn't sound like shortages, it sounded to her like misallocation of funds and bad management, and it sounds pretty much like that to me. School board just now says they're hiring more personnel? Yeah right. They also don't have enough school bus drivers, but neither does anyone else. My kid would definitely be taking their own lunch and maybe enough to share, as my daughter did in Catholic high school.
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