Posted on 02/14/2010 6:42:42 PM PST by JoeProBono
TAKOMA PARK, Md. (AP) -- As back-to-back snowstorms shuttered schools for the week across the mid-Atlantic states, parents fretted about lost learning time, administrators scheduled makeup days and teachers posted assignments online.
But Marla Caplon worried about a more fundamental problem: How would students eat? The two snowstorms that pummeled the region, leaving more than 3 feet of snow in some areas, deprived tens of thousands of children from Virginia to Pennsylvania of the free or reduced-price school lunch that may be their only nutritious meal of the day. The nonprofits that try to meet the need when school is not in session also closed their doors for much of the week, leaving many families looking at bare cupboards. And many parents working hourly jobs were unable to earn any money during the week, as the snow forced businesses to close.
Caplon is a food services supervisor for Montgomery County Public Schools, where about 43,000 children are eligible for free or reduced-price lunches. Some also get breakfast, dinner and bags of staple foods to take home for the weekend. The snow days meant children would get none of that until Tuesday, because schools are closed Monday for Presidents Day.
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especially considering a typical school district only has 15,000 kids total.
I eat Ramen noodles for lunch and enjoy every bit of it. (Not everyday, but enough to not starve)
My last year in San Diego...
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I usually keep a couple hundred of them around just in case. I eat a couple now and then whenever I’m too lazy to go grocery shopping.
I couldn’t do the shrimp flavor simply caused I didn’t believe the lie it actually tasted like shrimp.
Beef and Chicken baby. In fact, I was eating Raman when the original Regan era Shuttle dissaster happened. They broke in on wheel of fortune between classes.
That stuff keeps forever. Freeze dried noodles. I ate them raw once on the Bright Angel, I’ll never forget that. :^)
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According to these official statistics, the actual number of poor children is closer to 4,300 instead of the 43,000 number in this article! If this county has a 1000% overage, just multiply that by all of the counties in the USA! The School Lunch program budget should be reduce to 10% of its current level, or done away with altogether.
If Montgomery County's 934,418 residents, some of the most affluent in all of America, can't feed 4,300 poor children, then that's a sad commentary on the lack of personal morality and civic responsibility of average Montgomery County citizen. Oh, did I fail to mention that the county voted 71.5% Democratic in the last election.
“Won’t someone please think of the children?” is the usual background noise I hear when some public official is dipping for my wallet. When the school bond passes, teachers trade in cars, so my neighbors and I defeated the last bond drive “for the children.”
If parents drawing public assistance as it is can, but won’t, feed their own kids then their kids are children in need of services and the parents are unfit. And I don’t care if they are whiskey tangos or india alphas. (Figure that one out!)
Copy that.
I ordered three weeks of Angelfood this month.
We’re paying for stretchers for the kids crossbites.
Even the “full price” is subsidized, yes.
Read tagline to see why I mentioned just rice and beans.
lol!
Ramen Noodles are awesome.
Cheese on tortilla is good too.
Mac N Cheese will save a life.
Dry Beans N Rice are so so nice.
Tea Bags and Kool-Aid packets with some sugar will wash it down nicely.
Lets not forget a big old cylindrical box of oatmeal.
I lived on that for 3 years LoL
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