Special events, such as student elections on favorite breakfast items and invitations to parents to join their children for breakfast at school, are planned at schools throughout the county. Ted, along with School Way Cafe managers, will teach children in kindergarten through second grade the importance of making healthy food choices every day. National School Breakfast Week, held during National Nutrition Month, is designed to raise awareness about the availability of breakfast at school. The national School Breakfast Program ensures that schools act as a stopgap for children who either don't have time to eat breakfast at home or who don't want to eat first thing in the morning. The federal School Breakfast Program, serving 6.9 million breakfasts a day or over 1.1 billion a year, provides assistance to the nation's schools so that students may have a nutritious morning meal before class.
Research shows that breakfast eaters perform better in the classroom.
A recent experiment in six Minnesota schools demonstrated that after eating breakfast each morning, students were noticeably more cooperative and attentive. They also performed better on standardized tests.