Posted on 10/15/2021 5:06:02 PM PDT by simpson96
Parents in multiple Alabama school districts have been warned to give their children breakfast and sent them to school with snacks because supply chain shortages have badly-affected food deliveries.
District leaders are asking parents to feed their own kids and pack snacks before sending them to class as employees work around-the-clock to keep pantries stocked.
The situation is so dire in the state’s Dothan City Schools district that officials are mulling switching to virtual learning for part of the week to ‘alleviate the stress of our food supplies.’(snip)
Dothan superintendent Dennis Coe said labor and raw material shortages are to blame affecting the district’s ability to ‘feed our children each day.’
The shortage is causing menu shakeups as districts struggle to make meals with limited ingredients.
‘As we prepare to do everything we can, your support would be greatly appreciated by being prepared to send your children to school with their packed lunch,’ Coe said in a letter to parents.
‘As a last resort, we may also ask that you prepare to have virtual/remote school days a few days out of the week to alleviate the stress of our food supplies. Rest assured, breakfast and lunch at no charge will continue to be available to all students.’
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That is how I grew up.
I still bring lunch to work, it cost me about 3 bucks a day.
I watch the kids head for their cars to dump 10 bucks a day.
It saves me $1,800 a year.
They still don’t get how I can afford expensive camera gear...
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“I thought feeding YOUR kids was part of the parenting gig.”
Yep. Along with being the primary source of responsibility for their learnin’.
What a novel concept.
I thought it was babylonbee at this point.
Baloney
The apple from my parents got eaten, and NOT thrown away.
what a novel idea? go back to “ancient times” of a few decades ago, of parent’s providing meals for their kids.
2nd thought maybe the schools real concern is the lack of chemicals the kids will miss getting in the school provided food (IE: extra hormones, whatever other crap that seems to make each generation have new flood of health issues)
The only time I ate at school was not dogs during one o’clock session.
“District leaders are asking parents to feed their own kids”
Can you imagine.
I work swings and bring two meals because it’s too much of a pain to go through airfield security.
I never ate school food.
When I was a kid if the parents didn’t have lunch money we’d all (cousins and me) walk to one of our houses and have whatever was left over from dinner the night before for lunch. Cold fried potatoe sandwiches. Cold bean sandwiches. Sometimes there was a chunk of bologna and we’d slice and fry it ourselves for sandwiches. If there was none of that left we’d have mayonnaise or mustard sandwiches. Yeah, we were really mistreated and would have been in the ‘food scarcity’ category. We survived and never realized how poor we were.
When it comes to liberals who want to control poeple, any excuse to gin-up a “crisis” will do.
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