So another school year is upon us and 3 days in I already have my first concern. Yesterday afternoon Connor brings home a paper in his bag explaining the new lunch prices and milk prices. Not a big deal. Before bed Connor asks if he could have a quarter for milk I give him a couple quarters and don't really think much about it. I'm glad that he remembered because I hadn't and I honestly felt like we would have until Monday to turn in the money anyway.

This afternoon Connor gets off the bus and I ask him the usual questions.. How was your day? What did you have for lunch and snack time.. This is when he tells me about what happened at snack time. It seems that only 3-4 of his classmates had milk money for the day. So they got milk, but the other children did not. It saddens me that these children had to go without their afternoon milk over $.25! Yes, I understand if you tally a quarter a child throughout the entire school that it does add up fast. I guess I just expected them to at least give the parents a reasonable amount of time to send in money.

I know that the Mtn.Grove school had trouble with this a couple years ago and I'm sad that it is starting here.  At Norwood if you pay for breakfast, lunch and milk the total comes to $3 per child per day. That is $15 a week.

Please don't get me wrong. I'm not complaining about having to provide for my child. He is my responsibility and I will give him everything I can. He won't go a day without lunch and milk money! It drives me crazy to hear people complain about having to provide for their children, but that is a topic for a whole other blog :)

My point is, While I'm glad that my own son had his milk money, I just think it's sad that these children had to take turns going down to the water fountain after snack while other children got to have milk and it's all over twenty-five cents.