I just want to make sure my kids get what they need,” she says. “See them in kindergarten and have them going into fifth or sixth grade. She knows where they live, their parents and their siblings. Robinson, a driver for nine years, says she’s grown attached to many of the students. One of the busses delivering food on Tuesday is No. They know what to expect.”įamilies can use a district web site to find the nearest stop a bus will make. It's off of the busy routes, so that we can stop it on our flashers and stay there for five to 10 minutes so that families can come up and get their meals,” he says.” It is the same time every day. “It stops the same place each and every day. But Butts says getting to a location isn’t easy for all Wayne Township families, so while they have the already scheduled staff, the bus comes to them. In this week of forced school closure, some Marion County districts also offer meals at apartment complexes and the YMCA. Traditionally, school districts in Indianapolis offer free meals in the summer and during some breaks, at static locations, like school buildings. More than 100 district staffers are involved on making the bus stop meals possible. So that students pre-K through 12 know where the bus is going to stop.” “And then we publish those to our website for parents. “Our transportation department literally, in three days, completely rerouted our entire district so that we can serve pre-K through 12 and created 1,000, over 1,000, new stops,” he says. Patrick’s Day glasses and laughing as they push a dolly full of the chilled food.īutts says the district prioritized getting packaged meals directly to students, during this first week of school closures due to the coronavirus. Indianapolis' Metropolitan School District of Wayne Township has come up with a unique solution to feed children.Įarlier this week, Superintendent Jeff Butts stands outside Rhoades Elementary on the city’s west side, as cafeteria workers load coolers of food onto a yellow school bus. This means many students are without meals they rely on. MSD Wayne Township SchoolsĪll schools across Indiana are now closed to help combat the spread of the coronavirus. A Wayne Township Schools staffer loads cold meals into a bus for distribution to students on Tuesday, Maat Rhoades Elementary on Indianapolis' west side.
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