Parents of a Toronto public school community who have been handing out free breakfast to kids since last fall have been told to stop doing so by an adjacent Catholic school after complaints that the initiative contravened protocols and encouraged children to take food from strangers.
After hearing reports of food insecurity in their Junction Triangle neighbourhood, parents of students at Perth Avenue Junior Public School began offering egg and cheese sandwiches, oatmeal, muffins and fruit at the busy corner of Perth and Ruskin Avenues every morning, rain, snow or shine. Anyone — from children to grownups — could take an “extra breakfast,” no questions asked.
A breakfast program set up by parents at Perth School, a TDSB school, that has been shuttered after the catholic side of the building complained.