Posted on 01/19/2022 11:18:09 PM PST by ProfessorGoldiloxx
That or 1 can of vienna sausages and 1 can of V8. No, Meredith from The Office is not my mother.
Victim mentality. “Not everyone can afford”…blah, blah. Bread, ham, cheese done. If you’re that freakin destitute go to the Dollar Tree for these items. They have groceries. (Of course they’re $1.25 now)
But, these days the teachers union sucks in all the money they can get, kids be d#$%ed.
and yet the parents were given taxpayer funds for food for those same children...
If the child has to get free food from school that amount needs to be deducted from the food stamp allotment ...
BTW I made lunch for my children to take with them and I didnt get food stamps ...
Same here.
And if you do send lunch, the school confiscates it because everyone must eat the Mike Obama vomit platters.
(Anyone recall that debacle?)
We didn’t take food stamps either. Sometimes we brought lunch (nothing fancy) and other times we bought lunch. Also found out as an adult that sometimes growing up our parents let us have seconds before they had firsts at dinner. That was humbling.
Kids could gain weight with school cafeteria food that was thrown away!
Food banks can help make up the difference when necessary. Those are the good Samaritans I’d support.
All you need is a plan, coordination and staff/volunteers.
Decades ago, in Germany, on base, the first graders had to go home for lunch and then back to school. Our base housing unit was almost but not quite to where you got to ride a school bus. So up and down a steep hill and four flights of stairs every day was probably the best exercise I ever had. We weren’t allowed to bring lunch to school, even if it was difficult to get back to our classrooms on time.
The second-grade-and-up classrooms were in a building on the further side of the school compound, so they allowed the students to eat at their desks. Of course, that meant you had to bring your own food.
Another useless eater. FEED YOUR OWN KIDS, this reliance on gov for everything including feeding your kids is disgusting.
If that father is so concerned, he should have his kids make their own lunches at home. He mentioned not all parents can afford to do that, but it’s not really his business managing what other families do or don’t do for their kids.
Cry me a river.
Briwn your own lunches like we did.
I’m sorry but I don’t think the meals look that terrible. They all seem to have a protein, a veggie, a starch, and something sweet. And there’s chocolate milk.
How are you going to pay for those gov salaries and benefits if you spend it on food?
Heck, when I was in 5th/6th grade we could go off-campus for lunch! (I’m 63)
McDonald’s hamburgers and fries were 15 cents each! Two slices and a coke were 75 cents.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hopkinton,_New_York
1,100 residents and 187 square miles! Median income is $32,000. I doubt there’s muck of a tax base to support this so how hard can it be for parents to throw an apple (NY grows them) in the kid’s school bag?
Agree! Hubby and I are LUCKY to have lobster once a year. IF that. Lobster being paid with an EBT card is not right.
At least in our state, yes, the food stamps are reduced during the school year precisely because the students get food at school. This was a big issue at the beginning of the covid lockdowns, and they were handing out boxes of food to parents at the schools to make up for it.
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