Many puzzled by higher cost of school lunches on Guam

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Many puzzled by higher cost of school lunches on Guam
By Teri Weaver, Stars and Stripes
Pacific edition, Tuesday, November 11, 2008

Getting orders to Guam can mean watching beautiful sunsets, learning to scuba dive and shelling out significantly more lunch money at military-run school cafeterias, according to interviews with U.S. military and other government officials.

School lunches cost at least $1 more per meal at the military-run schools on Guam compared with elementary and secondary schools run by the U.S. military in South Korea, mainland Japan and Okinawa.

When it comes to national averages, the military kids on Guam pay at least 50 percent more.

In the starkest difference, elementary students at Guam pay $3.25 compared with $1.86, the average elementary school lunch price in America — a 70 percent difference.

That can mean military families pay $250 more for a first-grader’s lunch on Guam during a school year than they would have back home.


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