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Mix It Up at Lunch Day 2019

Today, registration opens for Mix It Up at Lunch Day 2019! On October 22, more than a million students will mix it up in a first step toward reducing prejudice and bias. If your school already participates in Mix, these resources can help you plan an even better event this year. If not, they'll help you start a tradition that will shape your school culture for years to come!

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Disparities in School Lunch

If you’ve read To Kill a Mockingbird, you might remember the scene in which Scout beats up Walter Cunningham in the schoolyard. It’s the first day of school and Scout’s teacher, Miss Caroline, is not from Maycomb. She doesn’t understand just how hard the Great Depression has hit the farmers of southern Alabama. So she innocently offers Walter a quarter to buy lunch in town. He refuses. As Scout explains he’s a Cunningham, and Cunninghams never take anything they can’t pay back. Every student at my school is eligible for free lunch this year, so they understand Walter’s situation. But what they don’t understand is “why other students get to go off campus for lunch and we don’t.”