The schools get federal funds for Title One classes (math and reading) based on free- and reduced-lunch numbers.
Seems like a crazy way to determine need for remediation, but ... that is how they do it.
And your child won't be stigmatized. No one knows who get a free lunch (and breakfast!) and who doesn't, unless the kids tell or the district is tactless about it.
lunch. Once my brother and I got to high school, we only qualified for reduced pay lunch. It wasn't that my mom was earning much more on salary, she had fewer kids at home.
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