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It seems to have changed in past decades. When I was in school in 70s/80s, everyone brought their lunch. And we weren't in a well-off area or anything.
by gedy 1y ago
It seems to have changed in past decades. When I was in school in 70s/80s, everyone brought their lunch. And we weren't in a well-off area or anything.
- Brybry 1y agoAs a sibling comment noted, the National School Lunch Program started in 1946. [1] The School Breakfast Program started in the 1960s/70s. [2] More recently, in 2010, the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act was passed which enabled the Community Eligibility Provision which lets low income area schools offer free food to all kids without individual application/qualification. [3][4] Various schools I went to in the 90s/00s had some kids bringing their lunch, some kids paying the school for lunch, and some getting free lunch (because they were poor enough to qualify). [1] https://www.fns.usda.gov/nslp https://www.fns.usda.gov/nslp [2] https://www.fns.usda.gov/sbp/factsheet https://www.fns.usda.gov/sbp/factsheet [3] https://www.usda.gov/about-usda/news/press-releases/2014/05/20/fact-sheet-healthy-hunger-free-kids-act-school-meals-implementation https://www.usda.gov/about-usda/news/press-releases/2014/05/... [4] https://www.fns.usda.gov/cn/cep https://www.fns.usda.gov/cn/cep