Fremont is on track to no tickets



imageBy Susana Valencia

Next year students will no longer need to have tickets in order to eat at the school cafeteria. All students will be able to eat lunch for free.

“If a school achieves 80 percent of families that qualify for free lunches or 85 percent of free and reduced lunch based on income,” students are entitled to eat for free, said Title I Coordinator Mr. Labat.

This process is called Provision 2. “It is an option in the federal School Breakfast Program and National School Lunch Program for schools to reduce paperwork and simplify the logistics of operating school meals,” according to the Food Research and Action Center’s website.

Although there will be no tickets, students will still have to complete meal applications for the following year, said Mr. Labat. This is done to make sure that Fremont maintains the 80 percent or higher of free or reduced tickets and students can continue to eat for free.

Magnet freshman Sonia Valencia said, “It’s a good change because we won’t need to keep worrying about bringing our tickets every day.”

Students said that the fact that Fremont will not require tickets to eat next year will benefit the whole student body.

Magnet freshman Adaly Armendari said, “People that don’t have tickets and have to pay for their lunches will benefit.” However, she also expressed concern for overcrowding. “People could get all crowded and there might not be food for everyone.”

Susana Valencia is a reporter of Fremont High School’s Magnet Chronicles.