11:50 AM... we're sitting in class, watching the clock above our teacher. The bell is going to ring for lunch in 3... 2... anddd 1. Not even waiting for our teacher to dismiss us, we rush to the doors and speed to the lunch line. Doors are banging and the cacophony of chattering students fill up the school's interior. No one stops to remember the pin number they have to give to the lunch lady, or if they have lunch money in their backpack. After all, that's a thing of the past- or as we might know it better, before the pandemic. Free meals in schools all across the country have brought devastating consequences and have affected the way students and even their parents handle these opportunities and resources. For this reason, the access that younger students have to this option of free meals should be more strictly supervised by staff members at elementary schools specifically, and maybe even reduced. First and mainly, meals in elementary schools are planned out to balance e