CA: Meal aid hits new high: Half of state public school students join program

Contra Costa Times ^ | 7/18/06 | Andrew Becker

[2banana]

To disguise participating students, Mt. Diablo schools encourage the use of prepaid student cards to pay for meals, said Kathleen Corrigan, the district's director for food and nutrition services. Cashiers scan the card at the register, but no one can tell whether a student has prepaid or gets free meals.

Yes - because we must let the children believe that getting free stuff from the pay of other taxpayers is normal...

[Wristpin]

I wonder how many of these kids have the new "X-Box"?

[calcowgirl]

"It's good for me financially," said Heidy Camorongan, director of food services for West Contra Costa schools. "The more free-and-reduced students I have who qualify -- I can feed them. Then once I feed them, I can claim reimbursement from the (federal government) and the state."

Ain't that grand!

[Busywhiskers]

In the school district where I live they have a no-questions-asked free lunch program. My wife took my kids down there once. When I found out about it I had to speak crossly to her and that put an end to that. Didn't seem right to me to ask my fellow citizens to feed my kids since I was perfectly capable of doing it. I had a couple of neighbors that didn't have any problem at all with the program even though they both had household incomes of $50K+.

[NormsRevenge]

I will probably catch hell for suggesting it but couldn't the chubby kids give some of their food to the skinny ones or the poor famished students anyway?


Nothing like the cradle to grave approach to stop and make one wonder where it will all end.

[D-Chivas]

I wonder how many of these kids have the new "X-Box"?

I wonder how many of these kids are overweight.

[MPJackal]

In a bankrupt nation. Coming soon to the former land of a people with some self respect.

[Koblenz]

How many of these kids are immigrants? Article doesn't say.

[luckystarmom]

What I love is that they don't say why California has so many kids on the free lunch program: illegal immigration.

[Patrick1]

Bet he makes the trains run on time and gives out free healthcare. How sweet.

[luckystarmom]

Most of them are illigal immigrants.

[headsonpikes]

"It's good for me financially," said Heidy Camorongan, director of food services for West Contra Costa schools. "The more free-and-reduced students I have who qualify -- I can feed them. Then once I feed them, I can claim reimbursement from the (federal government) and the state."

This is the face of American-style socialism, with lots of money in it for "service providers".

It ought to have the same effect as federal handouts to aboriginal Americans, namely social destruction and the creation of dependency.

I have come to realize that this is the meta-strategy of "democratic" socialism - killing with kindness.

[Calpernia]

>>>To disguise participating students, Mt. Diablo schools encourage the use of prepaid student cards to pay for meals, said Kathleen Corrigan, the district's director for food and nutrition services. Cashiers scan the card at the register, but no one can tell whether a student has prepaid or gets free meals.<<<

Ah, so this is how they are going to get around the stigma of chipping the children.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1339911/posts
Parents Protest School Mandate That Students Wear Radio ID Tags

Make it a prepaid lunch card for P.C. reasons.

AND, for those that still make the children lunches...the Model School Nutrition Program already has intentions of banning bringing food to school encrypted in the No Sugar rules.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1561077/posts
Animal Tagging and SCHOOL LUNCHES???

[SMM48]

Does this mean that more than half of the K-12 students are illegals?

[Calpernia]

Read this and see my post please.

[Calpernia]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1563271/posts
Healthy People 2010

[luckystarmom]

In California, I think so.

[LexBaird]

Although some scholars consider the milestone another sign of public school decline, school food service managers and food-policy advocates see the increasing percentage of enrollees as a boon. Not only does it mean more students are being served, it also brings more federal money to school districts. "It's good for me financially," said Heidy Camorongan, director of food services for West Contra Costa schools. "The more free-and-reduced students I have who qualify -- I can feed them. Then once I feed them, I can claim reimbursement from the (federal government) and the state."

And there the problem is, in a nutshell. They are trying to enroll every warm body, regardless of real need. The reasons?:

•The Feds get what they want, which is a foot in the door to impose Federal programs, because the schools are getting Fed aide.
•The local school bureaucracy gets money. The program reimburses more than it costs.
•The local Poverty Pimps get ammo for their false stats, since kids in the program are automatically assumed to be disadvantaged.
•The local Statists get more control over another aspect of kid's lives, feeding them breakfasts and lunches.
•The indifferent parents get shed of another bit of responsibility for raising their own kids.

[SheLion]

Read this and see my post please.

This is nuts.  I sure am glad my kid is grown and out of school.  But I pity my little grandson, of what he has coming "his" way when he starts kindergarten.  ack!