[artichokegrower]

Hopefully these students will at sometime in their scholastic career learn that these meals are not "free".

[dp0622]

Well they are free to them. like when a company hands out free samples, it is free to us but costs them something in hopes for a new future paying customer
problem is government’s customers never pay

[digger48]

Does the free breakfast adhere to Moochies mandates?

[gaijin]

Heard them on the radio this morning gushing out what is REALLY needed to get the scores up is public BOARDING schools, oh yes, that will solve EVERYTHING.

[BenLurkin]

The free food IS the lesson.

[Fungi]

Parents have abdicated their role to the government, Marxism par excellence.

[ExNewsExSpook]

Saw this more than a decade ago, when I worked as a middle school teacher after retiring from the military.

I quickly learned that the most important moments of the day occurred at 8:45, 11:30 and 3:30, which coincided with the three meals offered under the school nutrition program. As teachers, were told that everyone had to go through the cafeteria line for breakfast, and no student enrolled in the after school program could be held past final bell for instruction, discipline or any other purpose. The reason? Much of the federal funding a district receives is tied to participation in the school lunch program. In my school, every kid qualified, so it was paramount that we maximized participation every day, so funding wasn’t affected.

Academically, the school was a disaster; most of my seventh graders couldn’t do three column addition or subtraction. Functions involving factions were beyond comprehension, and there wasn’t a single student who could handle pre-algebra, the “normal” math course for that grade level.

In 21st Century America, Johnny and Suzy can’t read, write a simple sentence or handle basic math, but they are well fed.

[Organic Panic]

Low income = ILLEGAL MEXICAN ALIENS. Pajaro is identical to any small Mexican village. There has been zero effort to assimilate to America.

[kik5150]

This is a farming area. 90% illegal alien anchor babies.

[EinNYC]

In many NYC high schools I see insulated bags containing breakfast for students being brought up to the classrooms. So the students' first period class consists of chowing down on the food and occasionally looking up at the lesson the teacher labored to create. No one is really listening except for the kids whose moms fed them at home. Then, in other schools, you have students bringing in fast-food breakfasts, too busy stuffing their mouths with hamburgers or croissants to wield a pen to take notes and too lazy and slovenly to convey the trash generated thereof to a nearby trash can. So you have a whole rodent and roach population, well fed by these slobs, running around the classrooms.

What happened to parents feeding their own kids? Eating breakfast at home is becoming a rare event. Seeing kids bring lunches from home is a rare event as well. I hardly EVER see a home-made lunch in school cafeterias. Either the kids eat the breaded-everything reheated frozen slop served in the cafeteria or they sneak in fast food from nearby ff joints. Really sad, and cannot lead to healthy kids.

[ronnie raygun]

Dont think 15 minutes of lost time to eat will help the students who dont speak english anyway.