adventures in Title 1
Oct. 4th, 2018 09:29 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
thanateSo our neighborhood is pretty solidly middle class; most people own (well, pay mortgages on) their homes, with a mix of white collar & trade of various ages, tho skewing a bit older than average, partly because the houses are old & not really well-sized for multi-kid families. But our elementary school has some weird districting going on to try to fit everyone into a school, and so the Megatherium's bus has one stop at a giant apartment complex a couple miles away before it comes to pick up the K & pre-K kids from our neighborhood (next year we'll have to walk) and the school as a whole has enough free/reduced lunch forms to get Title 1 funding.
I was not really aware of Title 1 as a thing before hearing other pre-school parents talk about it last year, but so far here's what every student in my child's school gets:
-breakfast in the classroom every morning
-take home learning aids (we have a dry erase folder w/ a bunch of letter tracing sheets, & the kindergarten orientation promised us a number manipulation foam thing when they get them all in.)
-free flu shots, provided at school
I don't actually know what else that funding covers, just that there's a bunch of it. There's also more money for books & so forth. And grauwulf and I were talking about it last night, & we both said, "This is really cool! Why doesn't *every student* get this by default??" My kid has food at home and health insurance and 3 kids worth of picture books in her room with people to read them to her and all the clothes & dress-up clothes and toys and visits to the library. But not all these things are actually because we can afford to buy school lunches. And I know my kid is better fed for the day from having two installments of breakfast, since she keeps coming home & telling me she didn't have time to eat all her lunch or snack.
I was not really aware of Title 1 as a thing before hearing other pre-school parents talk about it last year, but so far here's what every student in my child's school gets:
-breakfast in the classroom every morning
-take home learning aids (we have a dry erase folder w/ a bunch of letter tracing sheets, & the kindergarten orientation promised us a number manipulation foam thing when they get them all in.)
-free flu shots, provided at school
I don't actually know what else that funding covers, just that there's a bunch of it. There's also more money for books & so forth. And grauwulf and I were talking about it last night, & we both said, "This is really cool! Why doesn't *every student* get this by default??" My kid has food at home and health insurance and 3 kids worth of picture books in her room with people to read them to her and all the clothes & dress-up clothes and toys and visits to the library. But not all these things are actually because we can afford to buy school lunches. And I know my kid is better fed for the day from having two installments of breakfast, since she keeps coming home & telling me she didn't have time to eat all her lunch or snack.