HAVEN, Kan. — School districts in the area battled through the pandemic with a combination of remote, staggered and in-person learning throughout the year. That includes getting students lunch and breakfast.
One area school district gave Hutch Post an example of the effort they went through to make sure all students got meals. Haven USD 312 which serves four communities worked to get meals to their outlying areas including Yoder, Mt Hope and Partridge. Sheree Jones, Food Service Director for Haven USD 312 says from the spring of 2020 when school buildings were closed up until the end of February 2021, the district district served over 57,000 breakfasts, nearly 74,000 lunches and traveled more than 8,300 miles to distribute meals.
There were times the district was doing both cafeteria meals with social distancing and delivering meals to remote students who could not make it to one of the district's four handout sites.
Jones' comments were made in a letter to the Kansas State Department of Education.
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