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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I'm in my late fiftys. There was no free lunch when I was a young pup. I seem to have survived the ordeal.
Heil Hillary!
DON’T EVER EAT THE YELLOW SNOW!
Angel food ministries is good. Its not free but it is real food (not a bunch of prepackaged garbage) its a good deal and they will take grub stubs.
Unfortunately for the couchtards, they have to get up on a saturday morning and go to a church to get it.
You only think so. In fact, your poor, non subsidized, nutrition has caused you to have blank spots in your memory, along with diminished reasoning capabilities.
Maybe their fat-butt parents will hoist themselves out of their recliners and actually open a box of cereal for their offspring?
Years ago, I worked at a “summer feeding program” at an elementary school in my neighborhood in SF. Theoretically, we were giving food to poor starving children. In reality, very few children showed up, they obviously weren’t starving , because they threw away most of the food because they didn’t like it (it wasn’t potato chips and Coke, their main diet), and our biggest customers were adults. They’d get up in time to get to the school cafeteria by 11:00 with a stop on their way to buy lottery tickets at the shop down the block.
This reads like something out of the Third-World. And in the NE no less!
Watch out where the Huskies go.
Gee, I fed my own kids. What a concept.
Goodness know mom and dad can’t scrape up some Ramen Noodles
I grew up in poverty and yet, somehow my Mom put a lunch in my sack every day. The damn orange would put that big circular divot in the sandwich, but we were fed. For dinner, spaghetti for many, which none of us kids have ever been ever to reproduce.
As always, liberal policies just make people who expect mama gummint to do what is their obligation.
Weak, lazy people with no reason to live.
Bet the parents could just call Domino’s on their cell phones.
exactly. These families have food stamps and other things.
It's clear to me that we need a government-sponsored program to warm the globe in order to prevent these snowstorms from starving our children in the future.
There ought to be a science to study this...
-PJ
Most districts will have at least one school serving lunch and maybe breakfast during the summer.
IMO, the key word is "free"...to describe lunch.
I often wondered about that. I better go get some government cheese before it is too late.
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