If your memories of school lunches date back a few years ago, you might be surprised by what s on the menu now. Today s students get pizza, nachos and enchiladas for lunch, and tamales and taquitos for breakfast. This is the third year of the program, which is held at different schools during different days through Oct. 16. Schools around the city are inviting parents for breakfast and lunch to show them how meals have changed, said Dora Rivas, BISD department administrator for food services.
Individual schools have schedules for visits.
Principal Carlos Garza of Cromack Elementary said the response at his school has been so good that he has had to schedule parents of children in different grades on different days. Some 260 parents of third-graders were eating at Cromack Monday. BISD serves around 17,000 breakfasts and 35,000 lunches a day, Rivas said. That means all students get free breakfasts and lunches regardless of financial need. The purpose of the law that enabled the district to qualify for the federally-funded program was to reduce paperwork, Rivas said.