Is Your Student Enrolled in Escambia County Remote Learning? The ECSD Want To Hear From You About Lunch

August 13, 2020

When school begins on August 24 in Escambia, parents of children that enrolled in remote learning can pick up a school lunch. The Escambia County School District needs input now from those parents to decide how the program will work.

To help the ECSD Food Service Department plan how many meals to prepare, they need to know how many families plan to utilize this resource. In order to designate pick-up locations, they would also like to know learn from parents which school locations would be the most convenient.

Parents with students who have picked distance learning are asked to go into their Focus Parent Portal Account by Monday, August 17 and complete a meal pick up form for each students. The feedback received will help the Food Service Department determine the final distribution sites based on need.

Here’s some information to help parents make their decision:

  • Meal pick up is only for students enrolled in the Escambia County School District.
  • Breakfast and lunch food items will be distributed together in the same visit.
  • Pick-up times vary based on school sites: Tentative times are: elementary school sites will be open 6:30 – 7:00 a.m., middle school sites will be open 7:30 – 8:00 a.m. and high school sites will be open 7:00 – 7:30 a.m.
  • Meals do not have to be picked up from the school the student is enrolled in.
  • Parents can pick up for all students at one location.
  • All schools with the exception of Ransom Middle School and West Florida High School (they do not have breakfast programs) are on the list with the pick-up time next to it.

A final plan with school sites and the hours for pick-up will be available around August 21 and will be published here on NorthEscambia.com.

Students that are attending traditional brick and mortar school this fall will receive lunch as usual at school, with students at 44 schools receiving free lunches without any application needed. Click or tap here for a list.

Meals are not provided for students that chose the Florida virtual school option.

NorthEscambia.com file photos, click to enlarge.

Comments

7 Responses to “Is Your Student Enrolled in Escambia County Remote Learning? The ECSD Want To Hear From You About Lunch”

  1. Mom of 5 on August 16th, 2020 2:00 pm

    What??? These are kids who have chosen to school their kids at home so that they don’t come in contact with others and keep them away from the school. You made a choice so you are responsible for your children

  2. MomofEScambiacountykids on August 15th, 2020 9:55 pm

    My kids have chosen remote learning. I usually depend on school meals to help afford groceries during school year. Trying to schedule a daily pick up is too difficult based on my work schedule. Have they considered continuing the P EBT option for remote learners?

  3. Samantha on August 14th, 2020 9:59 pm

    I think the kids that are going to be home nneeds p ebt

  4. Alexj on August 13th, 2020 2:50 pm

    l perfer to feed my own children, but for those who don’t or cannot this program will work. The children must come first.

  5. A mom on August 13th, 2020 1:42 pm

    Molino Mom, even if your kids were at home, thats your kids and people need to stop sticking their noses where they don’t belong and stop trying to say who’s a terrible parent. No parent is perfect and instead of looking at themselves and trying to improve themselves they’d rather condemn us. The way I see parents that give everything to their kids are doing damage too. People that do not have kids think they could do better but in reality, they’d still make mistakes. What works for you and I might not work for the other. I know what you mean though just try to keep your head.

  6. Tamara on August 13th, 2020 1:35 pm

    How do we let ECSD know we plan to utilize it? Also, I agree that we shouldn’t need to bring the kids with us for pick up. Glad we won’t have to make two trips. Glad they are organizing this without having to hear an outcry from the community…. Just taking care of business, nice to see these days.

  7. Molino mom on August 13th, 2020 8:36 am

    I’m wondering if we’ll still have to bring the kids with us to pick up. I was hoping not to have to wake them up at 6 in the morning with them being at home for school. (And before I make someone mad, they wouldn’t be alone at home at that time)

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