By Tuesday mid-morning, the line of cars outside O.D. Wyatt High School was more than a quarter mile long, stretching from the building’s southeast corner, along Seminary Drive in front of the campus and down to the staff parking lot on the west side of the school.
As drivers reached the front of the line, students from O.D. Wyatt’s JROTC program loaded cases of bottled water and boxes filled with eggs, milk, bread and other groceries into their trunks.
Communities like the one around O.D. Wyatt, in southeastern Fort Worth, have been hit hard by this month’s disruption in SNAP benefits. More than nine out of 10 of the school’s students are economically disadvantaged. As uncertainty continues around when federal food aid will be restored, school districts across North Texas are scrambling to make sure students and their families aren’t forced to go hungry…