You can wear your life savings!
Posted on 10/15/2021 5:06:02 PM PDT by simpson96
Parents in multiple Alabama school districts have been warned to give their children breakfast and sent them to school with snacks because supply chain shortages have badly-affected food deliveries.
District leaders are asking parents to feed their own kids and pack snacks before sending them to class as employees work around-the-clock to keep pantries stocked.
The situation is so dire in the state’s Dothan City Schools district that officials are mulling switching to virtual learning for part of the week to ‘alleviate the stress of our food supplies.’(snip)
Dothan superintendent Dennis Coe said labor and raw material shortages are to blame affecting the district’s ability to ‘feed our children each day.’
The shortage is causing menu shakeups as districts struggle to make meals with limited ingredients.
‘As we prepare to do everything we can, your support would be greatly appreciated by being prepared to send your children to school with their packed lunch,’ Coe said in a letter to parents.
‘As a last resort, we may also ask that you prepare to have virtual/remote school days a few days out of the week to alleviate the stress of our food supplies. Rest assured, breakfast and lunch at no charge will continue to be available to all students.’
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The horror.
Oh, the horror...
When you let the Gov’t decide how to feed the kids, dictating your desired curriculum to the Gov’t schools seems to be unlikely.
Wow, return to the 60’s when I took bagged lunches to school.
Parents have to feed their kids? What a disaster.
Wow, parents actually taking care of their kids. What an idea
O)MG! The 60’s. Bagged lunches. Breakfast at home. Eating breakfast at home pretty much guarantees a lack of persons of color at the breakfast tables of white children. In other words, Alabama is bringing back segregation! Well, part time.
"...OUR children..."
You can wear your life savings!
Gee, a highlight of school was always breaking out a new lunchbox.
In other words what most parents do every day
That’s what we used to do back in ancient times.
Sure was.
When I was in Second Grade, I remember taking my lunchbox that had the plaid Thermos in it.
I used to get jumped by a bully as I walked to school each day (He seemed to always just be standing there waiting for me) and when I was allowed to pick up my books and lunch box to continue on, I remember picking up my thermos, which often had Campbell’s soup in it, and gently shaking it side to side, only to hear the sad sound of a slurry of the broken insulating glass inside.
My mom used to get so pissed. With six kids, she always had a bunch of spares on hand, but...I seemed to be the only one getting them broken.
So, what are we worried about here.
When are they going to tell parents to stop driving their kids to and from school and letting them walk the gew blocks instead?
I thought feeding YOUR kids was part of the parenting gig.
Why not just educate them at home? Duh!
PB & J. Oh the horror.
Maybe that’s why I’m so loony. Baloney and cheese on wonder bread. Sometimes PB&J with an apple. And....horrors, I would get a little can of those fried shoestring potatoes! Sometimes I even was forced to take chicken noodle soup in a thermos.
And don’t forget that little snack sized box of raisins.
My lunches were so expensive that it was just wrong for the government to make my parents sacrifice to feed me. Of course, getting up in the morning and making my lunch was also beyond the call of duty.
I’ll let you in on a secret. My mother was a bipolar alcoholic and about half the time when I was in grade school I made my own breakfast and lunch on school days. That ought to be sufficient to get me excused from robbing a bank. Instead I’ve wasted my life being responsible.
“I thought feeding YOUR kids was part of the parenting gig.”
Yep. Along with being the primary source of responsibility their learnin’.
Its worse. .
The Maryland schools are feeding the entire POC family Breakfast , lunch , and dinner in the summer too.
They actually come in and demand these meals .
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