the school could be and your community maybe you pass on your way to work your neighbor's child may be here maybe your own attendance at the school is high and so other great and it happens every new monday through friday in this school in all schools that take part in the national school lunch program it happens every noon or pupil who takes advantage of the lunch program lunches are planned by a local school manager whose menus have taste appeal and day to day variety a good lunch provided from a third to one half of the students daily  thousands of schools across the country millions of schoolchildren participate in the national school lunch program impressive actually not only a little over one third of our school enrollment participates the price of a lunch is low an average of less than thirty cents or those who can afford it even lower or those who can bring a charge for the child of a needy family lunches are designed to be nutritious attractive and well balanced type a they're called maids and other foods rich in protein a combination of fruits and vegetables bread butter milk type a nutritious lunch helps a child stay alert it helps teenagers make that final spurt of growth but develop them and to help the grownups it gives all you the energy to keep up and grow up and what better use for our cultural riches than the school lunch the total food consumed in the school lunch program represents an ever growing market for our farms and our food and history of course there are schools that just don't have and some cafeterias like this or efficient kitchen facilities of their own but this hasn't stopped some schools that lack such facilities they still have a lunch program a different kind i've asked a school we put together all types in popular plenty of good protein is valid for vitamins and minerals addressing add flavor and carbohydrates like oven fresh key you're always easy to take every lunch is separately and attractively re and it is placed in its own paper bag to become a personal other schools the setting isn't always the best and there just isn't enough room children have to eat right at the death but they are being fed and said well and that's what counts more schools should do it every school should do it this time once maybe the only real food some of these children eat all day long school some of them are miles away from modern highway in far out of sight nevertheless with enough determination and courage a school lunch program can happen let's hear about it from one of course my class is a small when so much preparation but what you call a hardship and we're mighty grateful for refrigeration keeps the milk another perishables cool in hot weather and fresh all morning  good for leftovers too but we never really cut our leftover another county another school house one that's closer to the main highway here food deliveries can be made the older girls get things ready for lunch giving the teacher a chance to remain with the younger children the back of the school room becomes an impromptu kitchen very often the hot lunches prepared the only hot food some children can look forward to the energy that a well balanced meal give them will extend far beyond the lunch period into the late hours of the afternoon it will keep the children alert even enthusiastic about school yes here again it happens every new the way it can for many little rural classrooms all over america through the initiative and the ingenuity of local communities with the right spirit lunch programs have begun in hundreds of the united states department of agriculture donated some food along with cash to help schools bible local us contributing about one fifth of the cost of school lunches but merely making lunches available still doesn't mean that all children get good nutrition some kids just don't buy the school i think it's perfectly all right pretty cool to live on snow teenage girls are the most holy fad of any group in the nation alarming is not when you consider their future jobs as wives and mothers this happening in your community find out because many children are not good lunches at school perhaps your school is already taking part very well and good but ask your school lunch manager if every child is getting a good lunch if not it's time to enlist the support of your local people the federal government is putting up its share of the community must take on yours work with your school officials and the state school lunch director in your state's department of education they'll tell you how to get one going going soon once you do see to it that all children have the let it happen every night in every school in every state after all you can't teach hungry child