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There is never enough money for these people is there? Where do they think this money will come from?””

More than 50% of all property taxes go to support the screwells. Then, 50% of the California Lottery tickets sale money is used in support of the screwells.

If the Lottery is going to pay out $10 million to the Lottery winner—that means that about $10 million supposedly went into the screwell system.

Perhaps there needs to be a very detailed audit of the Lottery funding for the schools. Ticket sales have slowed down with the economy, but is still thriving.

The waste in the screwells is the mainproblem.

They are serving breakfast to “low income kids” now & a move is afoot to start serving dinner, also, “because these kids don’t get enough food at home”.

Sorry-—as a tax PAYER I am not responsible for feeding kids that are not mine. IF I choose to donate to the local food bank, so be it. But taking my money & feeding someone else’s kids is just plain wrong. Who is checking to see that my kids are getting fed as well as those kids now getting 3 meals a day at school?

A friend of mine works in the Los Angeles school system. She is on a rotational basis to monitor the cafeteria in the AM for these kids getting ‘breakfast’.
She has told me on numerous occasions that those kids fill up their trays with food-—pick at it while texting & giggling & then will throw over 50% of the food into the garbage can while glaring at her & daring her to say a single thing about the waste. It totally disgusts her.

It totally disgusts me, also.

If they want to feed these kids, let the parents go to a food bank, get the food and fix their lunches at home and send it to school in a paper bag with the kids. Get the school system out of the breakfast, lunch and dinner business. It’s a rip off anyway.

When I was in High School, we had a cafeteria. We would rather starve than eat there. The food was terrible, even then we would have to pay for it.