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...basic reason for the subsidized-meal-for-everybody policy is that lawmakers thought that the schools could not earn enough to meet their share of the cost of providing free or bargain-rate meals to the needy unless they enticed into the lunchroom many middle-class or affluent children who would pay somewhat higher, though still subsidized, prices. But other influences were also at work. After all, reasoned some lawmakers, if left to their own eating habits, the children of the wealthy may become
...Eastman Avenue Elementary School in east Los Angeles, 1,550 children, nearly all Hispanic, fill the lunchroom with a clamorous din. Every single one of them eats free. Since more than 85% would qualify for no-cost meals anyway, the school had been excused from charging anybody until last year. Now, under new guidelines, it will have to charge students 75? for a full-fare lunch and 35? for a reduced-price meal. The school has not yet completed processing income-report forms from parents, however, so for the moment the free meals continue. The total cost of the Eastman...
...teacher's view, in short, of why teachers cannot teach is that teachers are not allowed to teach. "The teacher today is expected to be mother, father, priest or rabbi, peacekeeper, police officer, playground monitor and lunchroom patrol," says David Imig, executive director of the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education. "Over and above that, he's supposed to teach Johnny and Mary how to read." Adds Edith Shain, a veteran kindergarten teacher at the Hancock Park School in Los Angeles: "The teacher doesn't know who she has to please...
...years in high school, a classmate of mine named Gary Raye was sent home from his summer camp after he was caught in the same sleeping bag with another boy. Word got around in school that fall and from then on Gary was almost universally snubbed, taunted in the lunchroom and greeted in the locker room with cries of "Gay Raye!" I don't know whether he was actually gay or not, but the day he was caught in that sleeping bag, Gary became a sexual exile. I was an exile too, but my alienation was achieved more slowly, more...
...janitor at the Audubon, Iowa, high school, A.E. ("Brick") Kness, used to watch mice with a hunter's eye. For a while he even allowed them to nibble contentedly in the lunchroom just so he could study their weaknesses. Brick Kness was not going to resort to easy or familiar solutions. This was the Roaring Twenties. When Americans did things right in those days, they invented something new to do it with...