WHAT! No ‘Meals on Snowplow Wheels’?

String of Snow Days Deprives Many Students of Food

TAKOMA PARK, Md. -- As back-to-back snowstorms shuttered schools for the week across the mid-Atlantic states, parents fretted about lost learning time, administrators scheduled makeup days and teachers posted assignments online.

But Marla Caplon worried about a more fundamental problem: How would students eat?

The two snowstorms that pummeled the region, leaving more than 3 feet of snow in some areas, deprived tens of thousands of children from Virginia to Pennsylvania of the free or reduced-price school lunch that may be their only nutritious meal of the day.

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And there are literally thousands of kids in WV that depend on the Schools for something to eat. And with all the days they have been out of school during the past month they are probably experiencing “hunger tantrums”.