Posted on 01/29/2017 9:17:49 AM PST by bgill
An anonymous donor has paid off lunch debts for 148 Johnston elementary school students whose accounts were in the red by $10 or more. The donation, totaling $13,250, was made Jan. 9. It benefited students in kindergarten through fifth grade in all five Johnston elementary schools, said Laura Sprague, director of communications. The Johnston Partnership also runs a program called Friday Friends that provides a packet of food for students to eat over the weekend. Each backpack costs around $8.15 per week and the program relies on donations.
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My parents sent me to school with a PB&J sandwich (white bread), chips, and juice.
We had recess, then ate lunch, and then 15 minutes more of recess. We even had one more recess left at the end of the day.
I didn’t starve nor feel malnourished.
What are these guys feeding these kids anyway?
EBT, AFDC, SNAP, food banks, reduced and free lunches, free breakfasts
When I hear this I can’t help thinking the parents have extra cash now to play lotto, buy cigarettes, pot, drugs, beer and liquor. You know this is happening
No wonder kids are over weight.
Our cafeteria lunch was $0.25. That's what I ate.
I went to the same school for 12 years.
My parents knew the principal and every one of the teachers....we were all neighbors. The pledge of allegiance was the first thing we did every day.
BTW, I never went to school with a minority in those 12 years.
Different world. We had a sack lunch or a Lunch Box. On occasion my Mother would give me Lunch Money for the Cafeteria.
Around here the Parent’s drop off and pick up their Kids. There is a line of SUV’s outside the Schools, morning and afternoon. Talk about a Carbon Footprint.
I walked six blocks to School until I got my Stingray Bike on my 8th Birthday. Then I was hell on wheels. LOL
This may be apropos of nothing, but one time, I saw a man by literally $200 of lottery tickets, then he went to the grocery store and bought huge pack of beer. It was pretty sad.
I don’t see why these parents can’t make sandwich, chips, some veggies, an apple or grapes.
Our son is in college (and we make sure he has what he needs), and our younger daughter has a homemade lunch every day. If things slip up, we give her cash to buy something at the cafeteria.
Yes, I remember saying the Pledge of Allegiance every morning.
My sister and I walked to school every day. This thread is like a history book. LOL!
Of course, when my kids got home, they'd do chores, play basketball, do archery practice in the back yard and so on, until they'd burned off every calorie they'd consumed that day.
As for the carbon footprint, that's just more food for plants, and more oxygen for us.
Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!
Johnston Iowa,not exactly a low income area. Geeesh!
Yep, back when Democrats actually loved America.
I remember it too.
We have the fattest poor on earth. These bleeding hearts just encourage their single moms to perpetrate neglecting their kids and being lazy. She knows someone else will provide for the kid so why care for her own? Toys for tots, tots for tots, SNAP, TANF, EBT, section 8, shop with a cop. Endless handouts. So lazy won’t even wake up to mame the kid a sandwich cor school. Heck. Won’t even fill out the paperwork to sign up for free lunch tickets.
MSM just can't be truthful. The students don't have accounts, their parents have the accounts that were in the red by more than $10.
We have a term for parents who send their kids to school without lunch or a way to buy lunch-it's called child abuse.
57% of the Black females in the USA are obese....not fat, OBESE.
Hubby and I used to get a child’s Christmas wishes from an Angel Tree and buy everything on their list.
Until I looked at picking one and they were asking for X-Boxes, computers, name brand $200+ shoes and multiple high end, name brand clothes that I can’t afford to buy for myself.
Haven’t gotten one off the tree since.
Johnston has a surprising number of poverty-level students, likely from City of Des Moines taking advantage of Iowa’s open enrollment. Most white suburbs are pressured to enroll minority students.
That works out to about $90 apiece. If the minimum was $10, then there must have been quite a few in the $150 range. How does it get that high? Were school administrators thinking they were doing the right thing without checking out the parents, or was this part of the school funding scams that give Fed money to schools based on the number of “free” lunches they provide?
I used to do the Angel Tree/Toys for Tots too until I saw a distribution center and all I saw leaving the place with toys were Mexicans. They had loads of toys. Sacks and sacks. I stopped then and there giving to those organizations. Now I give to a local orphanage. I know those kids have needs.
Also, there are Angel Trees for children of convicted prisoners (I don’t remember the name for that organization). Those kids need help too.
I’ve seen those summer lunches, there is enough food for most kids to have 2 meals.
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