PORTSMOUTH
The School Board will meet at 5:30 tonight in the sixth-floor conference room at City Hall, 801 Crawford St., to discuss potential marching band policies and a proposal to raise lunch prices.
At 7 p.m., the board will meet in the City Council Chamber , also on the sixth floor, to adopt next year’s budget and receive public comment on non-agenda items, among other things.
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Raising the price for the garbage they already feed our kids.
Are you kidding me? At my daughter's school - one of the better schools in Portsmouth, mind you - they have at BEST one fresh food option - fruit that is past its prime or salad that obviously came out of a bag. The rest is rounded out with processed JUNK.
I refuse to let my kids eat that stuff. I send them to school with lunch from home. If price increases included moving the schools to FRESH foods then I am all for it - but I seriously doubt that is the case.
check it out
ask for a report from each schools "bad debt" for lunch. When kids don't have a meal they get it on "credit". When the debt goes unpaid guess who pays for it???....you do!
price increase is rediculous
Over half of the kids qualify for free school lunch anyways. If its that bad, why raise lunch prices? Wake up school board!
And as for a marching band policy...please dont approve a policy that says any paticular school in Portsmouth is mandated to "high-step". Look at all the schools around Hampton Roads. I can count on one hand how many of those schools high-step any more. Bottom line- dont mandate them to step one way or another. Corps style marching is great too!