Beginning Monday, May 11, 2020, the DeSoto Independent School District Child Nutrition Department will offer dinner meals as part of the current twice-weekly grab and go meal service distribution to ensure greater access to daily meals for the children in the community in light of the continuing shelter-in-place ordinance in Dallas County due to COVID-19.
When the district’s meal distribution began, the format involved daily breakfast and lunch meal pick up for students on weekdays. The meal distribution plan, then, expanded to cover breakfast and lunch meals for all seven days of the week. Given the recommendation of area public health officials and following the guidance of the Centers for Disease Control, DeSoto ISD reduced meal distribution days to occur two days per week in an effort to limit the possibility of community spread of the coronavirus.
On Mondays, the students were able to pick up meals for Monday through Wednesday, and on Thursdays, students have the opportunity to pick up meals for Thursday through Sunday.