Multiple Ohio school districts joined 800 school nutritional professionals in DC for the annual legislative action conference to speak to Congress about raising funding for school lunches.
“Kids can't focus and concentrate on what's being taught to them. If they're worried about, you know, what am I going to have for dinner tonight or when am I going to have another meal,” said Gina Nash with Pisanick Partners.
“We know the struggle with the families in our areas,” said Stacey Bettis with the Stark County Educational Service Center.“We’re in a very small district and so our cashiers talk to the students. They can feel that fear, that shame that they have when they're going through the line and they say quietly, “Hey, do I, do I have a charge? What does it look like?” said Andrea Helton, Director of Nutrition Services for Wellington Village Schools.
“We have an additional $0.15 for breakfast, an additional $0.40 for lunch. Those are set to expire in June of this year while our prices are still continuing to increase,” said Helton. “We’re not charging our students to get on the school bus and for the bus driver to drive them back again," said Jennifer Hirsch, Director of Student Nutrition with Crestwood Local Schools. She said she wants lunches"to just be something that is part of their school day."“I would love to always have the Congress — congressmen come into, or women come into, our buildings and always have lunch with us,” said Bettis.
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