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5 coronavirus things: Principal under fire for holding group lunch in cafeteria
This and William & Mary students raising $17,000 to aid dining staff over winter break are some of the stories you may have missed recently regarding the COVID-19 crisis.
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High school group lunch violates New York guidelines plus four other stories you may have missed.Yellow Dog Productions / The Image Bank
In this special edition of 5 Things, Food Management highlights five things you may have missed recently about developments regarding coronavirus and its impact on onsite dining.
Here’s your list for today:
High school group lunch violates New York guidelines
The principal of a public high school for students with complex disabilities is under investigation for allegedly instructing some 150 students and adults to eat lunch together in the cafeteria rather than their individual classrooms. The alleged incident took place in Connie Lekas School in Brooklyn, N.Y., under the orders of Principal Antoinette Rose, resulting in students and staff dining maskless and with less than six feet of separation as required by New York City Department of Education guidelines.
Student fundraiser helps university’s dining workers get through winter break
A group of students at the College of William & Mary in Virginia has started a fundraiser that has so far collected some $17,000 to help the school’s dining staff over the COVID-forced extended winter break. The initiative builds on a GoFundMe campaign this past spring that raised about $26,000 distributed to William & Mary dining workers furloughed when the COVID pandemic closed the school to in-person classes.
Number of high school grads going to college dropped almost 22% this fall
The number of students going to college immediately after high school fell by 21.7% this fall, compared to the 2.8% drop a year earlier, according to a national survey by the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center. It also found that the declines varied by a high school’s enrollment income level, with a 29.2% drop among graduates of low-income high schools versus a 16.9% decline at higher-income high schools, and by ethnic makeup, with a 26.4% drop for high-minority high schools versus an 18% decline for low-minority high schools.
Read more: Fewer high school graduates enrolled in college this fall amid COVID-19 pandemic, study shows
School district overwhelmed with meal kit requests
Washington County Public Schools in Maryland has suspended taking online orders for its winter-break free meal kits after being swamped with about three times the number of orders it had anticipated. Food and Nutrition Services officials were expected up to 1,000 requests for meal kits by the Dec. 15 deadline, but received close to 3,000 in fewer than 12 hours.
Read more: WCPS flooded with meal-kit orders in first day
Children’s hospital provides healthy food for food-insecure patient families
Each month, Dayton Children’s Hospital in Ohio provides some 55 food-insecure families of patients with enough healthy food, such as whole-grain pasta, beans and green beans from its Food Pharm to feed a family of four for three days while also connecting them with other resources such as local food pantries to help them get through the rest of the time.
Read more: A hospital that prescribes free nutritious food to families who need more than medical care
Bonus: The top 10 episodes of One On One, the podcast by Food Management
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