Some people pay $12000 for a cheese sandwich.................
Posted on 05/01/2017 8:38:19 AM PDT by davikkm
I believe we have fallen from God’s grace, and we cannot even find the decency to feed our own children. What have we become? Have we not said over and over again, “a child cannot learn on an empty stomach.”
We are “lunch shaming” children who cannot afford to pay for their lunches. In front of God and the rest of the world, if a child owes on his or her lunch bill, instead of doing the right thing…giving the lunch to that child regardless…we are doing this:
We take away the hot meal. We tell them if they want it, they should pay the bill. We throw the meal in the trash. Then we hand that child a cheese sandwich…all the while this is done in public. I have read so much that has disturbed me, but this is the worst. These children never get over this. What do they suffer in the future for this type of humiliation? Could it drive them to suicide?
How can we allow all of these illegal immigrants inside of our country…inside of our schools when we cannot even feed our own brethren…our most vulnerable…our own children? Children who are actual citizens of the United States!
What has driven us to this type of hypocrisy? What has transformed the United States of America into a Nation of heartless, stingy, misguided, and lost people that we could possibly find such a situation tolerable?
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We homeschool and never worry about this kind of nonsense.
LOL. These starvin' children can somehow afford and iRhone and the latest AirJordans. But the parents can't afford to make a sammich for the chil'run.
Why don’t their parents pack them a lunch. I grew up poor but my Mom always packed me a lunch. I never went hungry.
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There are programs in this country that provide any school-age child from a family below the poverty line with 2 free meals a day if they attend public schools.
If their parents are too lazy or screwed up on drugs to sign up for those programs, that is the parents’ fault, not the fault of rest of us.
Rest:
In God’s land we would feed our children regardless of where they came from, as we are all God’s children, and we are all trying to survive on the same globe.
Country against country, investing all our millions into nuclear weapons, raping our neighbors, using our resources to “take away” instead of “giving back”…where are we right now? What are we facing…really facing…eternal damnation?
Crystal Jarek, a retired teacher in Lee County, Fla., said she remembered the staff taking debt notices to class. “The cafeteria staff would come in at noon, wearing their hairnets, and hand out letters,” she said. “All the kids would turn around to see who was getting one.”
During the 2015-16 school year, Lee County began offering free meals for all students at 76 of its schools, including the one where Ms. Jarek taught.
Kerry Krepps, a retiree in Kansas City, Mo., has seen the lasting effects of lunch shaming. Her adult son refuses to eat peanut butter because it reminds him of middle school in western Minneapolis, when students with debt were sent to a table to make peanut butter sandwiches.
“The humiliation has persisted for 20 years,” she said. “It shows how lasting these experiences can be.”
Some people pay $12000 for a cheese sandwich.................
Homeschooled children are the only undamaged, non-crippled children.
When they get older they can afford tattoos.
90% of this lady’s argument is pure self-righteous Communism — the government should feed kids the same food everyone else gets so they don’t feel ashamed and so they don’t starve (a bit of histrionics on the last one). The answer is straight forward — because the country doesn’t have a magic money tree to pay for everything and has to prioritize spending and balance that against growth-killing, confiscatory taxation. But then she throws in the “don’t let illegals in to eat for free” argument and it made me realize that she is one of the votes who may have switched from the Dems to the Republicans and gave Trump his victory. Old style Welfare State Democrats who think the reason the Welfare State isn’t working is because of open-borders immigration. So perhaps people like her have to be accommodated to keep the “Trump coalition” together.
I find this article to be puzzling.
There are free (and reduced cost) lunch and breakfast programs in schools all across this country for kids whose parent(S) are below the poverty line.
There are EBT, Food Stamp, WIC and SNAP programs to provide food for these kids.
There are welfare programs for just about any scenario you can think of.
There are food banks at practically every church in every community.
There is no reason for children to go hungry at school.
I took my peanut butter and jelly sandwiches to school wrapped in wax paper or news paper when I was a kid. I was not ‘lunch shamed’, many kids traded for other kids lunches......................
Whoever buys into this hyperbolic rant needs to be educated on the most simple, yet complex fact of life:
There is no free lunch.
A couple of years ago my grandson in CA was shamed by his schoolmates because he didn’t qualify for free lunch and had to take or pay for his own. I had to explain to him that it was backwards, they are the ones that should be ashamed because they want other people to work and pay for their food in addition to paying for their own. All the teachers in those CA public schools are commies. Unfortunately my daughter has to work for the family just to make ends meet so public school it is.
“Why don’t their parents pack them a lunch. I grew up poor but my Mom always packed me a lunch. I never went hungry.”
There were times I paid (no, my parents paid) for and I ate school lunches. At other times, I took a brown bag lunch. Other kids brought lunches from home and I don’t remember there being a stigma attached from other classmates.
I don’t understand this controversy. Have parents become so sorry that they will not feed their own children?
We always took our own lunch to school in a lunch box or paper bag with a nickel for milk. They should shut down school cafeterias and let everyone send their kids lunch with them. Set up a few vending machines with sandwiches and fruit.
Once school lunch is free for everyone, there will be no need to bring a lunch to school and it will no longer be allowed.
Can't have kids eating government kale while another kid whips out a grinder his mom made.
Pamela Williams ( https://www.facebook.com/pamelacasara ) seems like a nice woman. But this article reads like a high school sophomore wrote it. Wow. Really poorly thought out, really poorly written. Embarrassing.
Back “in the day” when I was in school,we either packed a lunch or(in my case)I worked in the cafeteria for the meal. I suppose now there is some law against a student working in the cafeteria.
I did not give her permission to include me in the word “WE.”
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