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Eating It Up

Continued from page 2

Published on November 04, 2004

They're not looking at bigger trends, so they can't be expected to notice that HISD students are hardly willing to put their money where their mouth is. At the same time that Breakfast in the Classroom has increased the number of breakfasts served, state records show the number of kids paying for lunch has dropped 22 percent.

"They know how to scam, and scam legally," Fitzsimmons says. "But that doesn't make it right."

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