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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This is all about conditioning the population to accept the concept of Free Lunch.
Parent: There is no such thing as a Free Lunch.
Child: Sez you. I’ve been getting one every day for twelve years.
TANSTAAFL
Odd that the schools with the lowest test scores have the highest percentage of students receiving free meals.
Actually not odd or surprising at all.
Meanwhile they charge the parents 5 dollars for a pencil...
Moms who were home with their children in my wealthy neighborhood packed their lunches with healthy and tasty foods. The cafeteria food was unacceptable.
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