NYC is now offering free meals to adults AND children at public schools

[conuly]

https://www.schools.nyc.gov/school-life/food/free-meals

There's going to be a lot of people relying on this. I just wish they'd bite the bullet and offer meals on the weekends too, or act not just as soup kitchens but as food pantries so that families could stock up and not show up every day.

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[conuly]

We do have schoolbuses, but they're almost entirely for grades k - 6. (Even though it's not really allowed, 7th and 8th graders on Staten Island who don't live close to a real bus route often slip onto the 6th grade buses with the tacit approval of the city.)

[peoriapeoriawhereart]

Thus preparing them to be real New Yorkers?

Though, that could so be used to discriminate between who you tacit and who you charge.

[conuly]

Honestly? A lot of those kids have pretty much never left the Island, or if they have it was to visit family or stores in Jersey.

[peoriapeoriawhereart]

Are they going to Middle School still on the island or no?

(I am Midwestern, so I mostly know the Manhattan/Brooklyn/Queens/Bronx tribulations, but mixed together like some meat dumpling. You know, 1824-2030. The Brooklyn Dodgers are Schrodiger's Cat.)

[conuly]

Staten Islanders are significantly more likely than children in other boroughs to go to school at their closest public school rather than one further away (though a large number of students attend their closest parochial school instead). The nieces are unusual in insisting on going to school in Manhattan.

In NYC, middle school is grades 6 - 8.

[peoriapeoriawhereart]

When one gets west but not too West, there are Middle School 6-8 or Junior High 7-9. Different districts handle it differently, often depending on their buildings and student numbers. Naturally this means some elementary go through sixth while others stop at fifth.

[conuly]

There are even other set-ups - like schools that run k-4, 5-8, 9-12 or k-2, 3-5, 6-8, 9-12, that sor tof thing.

[peoriapeoriawhereart]

9-12 is pretty normal here as a High School. We do have places where there are multiple buildings making a campus and those might break k-3, 4-6, 7-9, 10-12. That would have to be somewhere big. I went to a small HS, but we did have five grades. Seniors down to not-freshmen. Typically for extracurriculars those first years would get an upperclassman mentor. Which was fun for me as a junior and senior in theater. In smaller communities they don't have a high school and the kids have to take long bus rides which can mean long waits in the winter dark on the edges of highways.