Okay, this is big-time Obama country. So they should be getting free “everything” pretty soon, eh?
What, no school breakfast program?
There’s no such thing as a free lunch. All you have to do for free lunch is give up your liberty. That same liberty that was paid for in patriot blood.
Why don’t we just feed all the children free lunches and get it over with. Sure didn’t have free anything when I was a kid. It’s up to the parents to feed their own children. My folks sure as hell did. If it’s free, they won’t work for it.
It has become kind of fashionable in our little town to let the government pay for your kids breakfasts and lunches no matter how much money you earn.
My daughter tells me that more than half the bus gets off in the morning early to eat free breakfast at school, and these kids don’t come from the other side of the tracks either.
The easier you make it the more it will be abused, and believe me brother it is being abused big time.
when we lived in that area, quite a few years back, there was a breakfast program and yes, it included those who were eligible for free/reduced meals.
seems this has even spread up to our area too...
http://www.fccps.k12.va.us/news/item/081001_01.htm
School Board Approves Free Meals for Qualifying Students
POSTED: 10:30 a.m. EDT, October 1, 2008
By: FCCPS Communications
The Falls Church City School Board recognizes that current economic difficulties may lead to financial hardships for some families. In an effort to provide direct assistance to families, the school board voted at its last meeting to subsidize reduced-price student meals for students who meet federal family income guidelines. Beginning today, and for the rest of this school year, any FCCPS family that qualifies for reduced-price student meals will be provided those meals at no charge.
“The research is clear that healthful, nutritious meals are a fundamental component of student wellness, learning, and success,” school board member Joan Wodiska said. “Our vote to subsidize meals for families that meet federal income guidelines was the right thing to do for our students, and we strongly encourage every eligible family to apply for the school meals program.”
Students who qualify will receive electronic meal cards that are identical to those given to students who are not eligible for free meals. The debit system is computerized, allowing all payment and free meal information to be kept confidential.
Families may apply for assistance at any time throughout the school year.
Tuesday, April 15, 2008
Free Lunch: Title I’s formula for determining aid — and its recipe for fraud.
Individual schools receive Title I funding based on the percentage of students that are eligible for the federally subsidized free-lunch program. Though the lunch program is designed to provide food to low-income students who might otherwise go hungry, its guidelines do not require schools to verify the parental income of students who enroll. The process to qualify for a free lunch comes down to parents self-reporting their income on a form that is turned in to their local school. Federal free-lunch program administrators argue that the program has little potential for abuse because “the worst that happens is a kid gets a free lunch.”
Federal free-lunch data, however, are used as one of the main poverty indicators for school districts and are linked to many other local, state, and federal funding streams. So any fraud in the free-lunch program is quickly multiplied. And rest assured that school districts recognize the program’s multiplier effect and work hard to sign up students.
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The School Lunch Lobby: A Charmed Federal Food Program that No Longer Just Feeds the Hungry
The number of free and reduced-price lunches schools serve dictates how much extra federal money for poor students they receive; some districts get millions in poverty funding each year. The schools can use the money for academics.
Most districts seek out students who might be eligible. Many send home the school lunch application with all students at the beginning of the year.
Some districts have experimented with the automatic enrollment process and have found eligible students.
In FY 2006, federal spending totaled $7.4 billion for the National School Lunch Program. This federal support comes in the form of a cash reimbursement for each meal served. The 2008-09 school year basic federal reimbursement rates are:
Free Lunches $2.57
Reduced Price Lunches $2.17
Paid Lunches $0.24
These kind of welfare programs enourage people to be non-productive and look to others (the government) for handouts. End these programs and the parents will go to work to pay for their rugrats lunches, or they’ll go hungry or starve. Either way, they will no longer be a burden on the rest of society.
School administrations work hard to get students signed up.
The more on the begging for food list, the more money the school receives.