Posted on 10/15/2014 10:01:31 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Children are going hungry because their schools are forced to throw out uneaten food rather than let kids have second helpings, warns the principal of Storm Lake Elementary School.
“Monday is always the worst,” Principal Juli Kwikkel told the Storm Lake Pilot Tribune. “Often we have kids who haven’t eaten much for the weekend. After lunch, they are still going to be hungry.”
Kwikkel fears the problem is not poverty but misplaced priorities of some parents.
“I look at the expensive cars that pick up these kids in some cases. We’ve made home visits and seen families with a 62-inch TV, all kinds of game consoles, but no furniture and the kids sleeping on a mattress on the floor,”
(Excerpt) Read more at stlouis.cbslocal.com ...
I should give a rat's ass about this because? Frankly I think the parents should feed their kids NOT the taxpayers.
Bingo. We had a neighbor who would never miss her cable payment, She was totally flummoxed when the power company cut her service and she couldn't even turn the TV on.
Equality! Compassion!
Think of the rest of the world!
/Michelle O
These people wouldn’t be lil Micheal Brown’s would they...
But dignity! At least they have dignity.
Stevie Wonder could have seen this coming. Every parent alive knows a kid will go hungry before eating something they don’t like. Put a plate of brussel sprouts in front of a kid and tell him he can’t leave the table until his plate is clean. He’ll either sit there until midnight or slip them to the dog when you’re not looking. (my preferred method. That dog would eat anything.)
So, didn’t this school superintendent vote for his favorite affirmative action teleprompter in chief?
The whole article is confusing. It doesn't say who is paying for the food. Maybe the parents are. Maybe (probably) it's a free or a reduced-cost program.
And there is no clear reason given as to why the students aren't being allowed second helpings. The article just says left-over food has to be discarded.
In Ga at least its the taxpayers
The Community Eligibility Provision is a 4four-year reimbursement option for eligible, high poverty, local education agencies and schools. Under this provision, a local educational agency may participate for all schools in the local educational agency or only for some schools. Participating local educational agencies must offer free breakfast and lunches for four successive years to all children attending participating schools and receive meal reimbursement based on claiming percentages.And all you need to do to enroll is say you can't afford lunch for your chile. Free in this instance means the tacxpayers are paying for it. I believe most states have similar programs as established under federal edjumacation guidelines.
My parents business is across from the small town’s cable office. You can’t get in that place with a federal search warrant on the 1st and 3rd of the month. They will pay that cable bill even if it means begging for food for their kids the next week.
That being said the current school lunch program is an utter debacle. From my kids testimony the food is mystery bits of meat and pure tasteless slope. I refuse to pay for it this garbage and send their lunches. They see huge cans of tossed food each day and see lots of kids going hungry.
Guess I was lucky to have gone to school when the lunch ladies were the grandmothers of some of the students. Or unlucky - I was NEVER, ever skinny! LOL!
***Stevie Wonder could have seen this coming. Every parent alive knows a kid will go hungry before eating something they don’t like. Put a plate of brussel sprouts in front of a kid and tell him he can’t leave the table until his plate is clean. He’ll either sit there until midnight or slip them to the dog when you’re not looking. (my preferred method. That dog would eat anything.)***
Well, almost. I had a different situation happen, which is still a favorite family story. On my fifth birthday, the Wizard of Oz was coming on tv that night. It wouldn’t air again for about another year. (I am giving away my age right now, I know.)
In those days, a birthday cake was all you could hope for. Kids never picked the meal that was served. Well, this night, on my birthday, my mother prepared my least favorite meal of all time, beef stew with mixed vegetables. The beef was always tough, and I hate peas and carrots, especially when they are mixed. I could muster down the potatoes and the “gravy” part, and dropped the rest towards the floor.
Well, the chair we used at the time was like a stool with a little step on the bottom, so I could reach the table. The vegetables and the gristly meat was caught up on it. I figured that because it was my birthday, I might possibly get away with this scheme. Nothing doing!
When my mom discovered what I had done, she made me eat the rest of it while sitting on the floor, right off the step part of the stool! I wasn’t allowed to go into the family room and watch the movie with the rest of my 5 siblings until every bite was gone. It was pure torture!! I dawdled and pushed it around for a long time. We had no dog. Even though the movie started, my mom didn’t take pity on me, despite my protestations that it was my birthday!
After missing several minutes of the movie, I finally held my nose and ate the last few bites. So starving was not an option for me that night, and the reward of a special movie for eating unpleasant things was motivation enough to muster through it. To this day, my mom is horrified that she ever did such a thing, but we all laugh about it. Even me. I still won’t eat beef stew without separating out the peas and carrots.
Once when my now adult son was small I would not let him leave the dinner table until he ate one bite of some freshly cooked green beans. Two hours later he was still there. I finally gave in.
He is an excellent cook but still doesn’t eat green beans or anything green but avocados, asparagus and artichokes. His children, however, are required to eat one bite of everything on the dinner table - and they do.
Couldn’t your neighbor watch TV by candlelight. (paraphrasing an idiot anti nuclear power politician from Austria)
Actually, she just found a new place to live where the utilities AND the cable were included as part of the rent. Since the taxpayers were footing most of the bill, she figured "she" could afford it.
If parents won’t feed their kids, why do we allow them to stay with the parents? It seems to me that we are attacking the wrong problem.
ping
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