This study was carried out in Muwanga sub-county Kiboga district and the major purpose for the study was to assess the relationship between going without lunch and pupils‟ indiscipline. In carrying out this study, three (3) research questions were posed. The study purposely sampled five head teachers, ten teachers and five pupils totaling to twenty respondents. The instruments used for data collection were the questionnaires and interview guides. The study reviewed literature on parents‟ attitude towards paying lunch fee for their children, children‟s experiences of going without lunch and influence of going without lunch on pupils‟ discipline. Following from the qualitative nature of the research design, structured interviews and questionnaire tool were used as data collection instruments and Content analysis was used to analyze the findings. The major findings of the study revealed that parents „attitude towards paying lunch fee for their children is very low, going to school without lunch makes pupils have stomach pains and also make children steel their friends‟ edibles and escape from school. Therefore, it was recommended that administrators should ensure that school feeding programme is effective to all regions in which the programme has been introduced, the community should participate positively in any community development programme which will be introduced to their area like school feeding programme, the policy makers are recommended to make policy which is practical oriented to the students. Finally, there is a need to conduct another comparable study under the same topic to a larger sample and should also research on the impact of school feeding programme on students‟ performance.

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