Posted on 09/12/2017 8:34:43 PM PDT by Olog-hai
Of the 5,052,222,946 school lunches served in Fiscal Year 2016, 73.3 percent of them — the highest percentage on record — were either free or reduced price meals, according to data posted on September 8, 2017 by the Agriculture Department’s Food and Nutrition Service.
Free lunches comprised two-thirds (66.6 percent) of all lunches served in that school year; and reduced-price lunches comprised 6.7 percent. Students paid full price for the remaining 26.7 percent in Fiscal 2016, the latest year for which data is available. (FY 2016 covers the 12-month period beginning in Oct. 2015 and running through Sept. 2016. It roughly coincides with the 2015-2016 school year.) […]
In FY 2016, a total of 31,168,859 students participated in the federal government’s school lunch program, and while that number is high, it is not a record. But the number of students getting free meals may continue to rise, depending on how many school systems do what New York City just did.
School lunch is now free for all public school students in New York City, regardless of income. That’s because New York City has enrolled in the federal government’s Community Eligibility Provision (CEP), an Agriculture Department program that allows school districts or individual schools in high-poverty areas to provide free meals to all enrolled students if at least 40 percent of those students already are enrolled in other means-tested programs, such as SNAP, for example. …
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Every student in the City of Cleveland Public Schools receive free lunch and free breakfast every day regardless of income. So few middle-class people send their children to the public schools that they decided to simply give all students free breakfast and lunch.
and yet we working class will pay for every single meal for our kids....
Stop worrying. It’s not like the fed gov is over 20 trillion in debt and many state and city debts are at utterly unmanageable levels and headed for disaster.
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I’m sorry. But while I can at least understand free lunches for the very poor, ——in general parents have the responsibility to provide food for their kids. Free lunches should be the exception not the rule. Let the parents pack a bag lunch for their cute little progeny and be done with it.
Public schools have become parents. Where are the parents? Is it not the job of parents to feed, house, clothe, and protect their children? No—not when the federal government is concerned. Schools have become nothing more than indoctrination centers obviating the need for parents. Parents are only necessary for copulation. Dewey is clapping in his grave.
and yet we working class will pay for every single meal for our kids....
It seems insane, but true. My youngest son goes to the local school for Pre-K. He starts at 9:30 and gets out at 3:30. In six hours he is fed a breakfast and a lunch. Both free.
God,was I stupid ——packing those five lunches every day.
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I’m sure you packed more nutritious food for your children than what is served to children in public schools today. God Bless you and all the other parents who packed lunches of good food for their children.
Hey it’s nice you have a boy that age :)
As for the free breakfast and lunch, they’re gonna give them either way so if it saves you a few bucks, screw it :)
It’s not the cost so much that bothers me, it’s just something I would have pictured hitler implementing as another way to take power away from the parents.
“and yet we working class will pay for every single meal for our kids....”
50% of the US does not pay taxes. Chances are 90% of the “working class” is living off gubmint welfare, one way or another.
Follow the money & blame the leeching unions.
Because only 26.7% were actually worth the paying price. Good work, Michelle Obama - Obamacare in miniature.
and 50% of them prolly went straight to the dumpster
In many places, the schools provide dinner and weekend meals too
Shitty lunches at that, provided by low-bidder.
Is it any wonder we have a national health crisis?
Schools should not even be providing cafeteria lunches. Kids should either bring their lunch or have some vending machines with sandwiches and drinks.
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