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Malta School Board asked to consider backpack meals for students

Malta’s Thayne Mackey spoke during the public input portion of last week’s Malta Public Schools Board meeting and asked the trustees to consider implementing the BackPack Program which would provide students with ingredients for meals for students to take home, cook, and feed themselves.

The program is run through a branch of the Montana Food Bank Network and is currently in use in 40 Montana schools. Mackey said in the program, food (including canned goods such as stew as well as uncooked pasta and rice) is sent to the schools and then bagged and given discreetly to the students for a cost of just under $1.70 per meal. The school would purchase the food and Mackey said he already has many people who said they would volunteer to pack the food. Mackey said that many students in Malta go home on the weekend without enough food to eat for the two days. No action has been taken on Mackey’s proposal as of yet.

Under the new business portion of the nights meeting, Malta Public School Superintendent Kris Kuehn informed the Board of Trustees that current Malta High School Principal and Athletic Director Scott King is set to retire from teaching at the end of the 2018-19 school year (see a story on King, who has spent the last 38 years as an educator and has been with Malta Schools since 1985, in the coming weeks inside the PCN.)

“He is a very special guy,” Malta School Board Chair Mark Knudsen said.

“He has gone above and beyond what has been asked of him,” Trustee Greg Skiff echoed.

 

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