Dinner bell follows class bell at some D.C. schools

Washington Post ^ | October 19, 2010 | Bill Turque

[ilovesarah2012]

D.C. public schools have started serving an early dinner to an estimated 10,000 students, many of whom are now receiving three meals a day from the system as it expands efforts to curb childhood hunger and poor nutrition.

Free and reduced-price breakfast and lunch long have been staples in most urban school systems. But the District is going a step further in 99 of its 123 schools and reaching nearly a quarter of its total enrollment. Montgomery and Prince George's counties also offer a third meal of the day in some schools but not on the scale undertaken in the city.

The program, which will cost the school system about $5.7 million this year, comes at a time of heightened concern aboutchildhood poverty in the city. Census data show that the poverty rate among black children is 43 percent, up from 31 percent in 2007 and significantly higher than national rates.

[allmendream]

That is NOT changing the subject!

Just because major corporations with highly processed foods that they advertise and promote are willing to (temporarily) sell at a loss in no way invalidates or changes the subject from the basic economics of the situation - that being that there is NO WAY economically that highly processed foods are less expensive than the staple crops that went into them.

[ridesthemiles]

Under NObama, food stamps recipients have gone from 27 million to 43 million.

I also do not think there is any communication between the food stamp people & the school lunch people.

I think there is double dipping all over the country.

Nobama must laugh himself to sleep each & every night. Michelle, also.

[carton253]

This argument is futile. You are fixed in your opinions and all the examples that you give me won't change my mind that eating healty is more expensive (based on my experience).

Have a great day.

[Fundamentally Fair]

My wife is a school nurse covering 5 schools. One of the schools packs groceries for the kids on Friday afternoon...so they won’t go “hungry” over the weekend.

[allmendream]

You are fixed in your opinions and neither economic theory nor concrete example seems able to move you from your perception.

Eating healthy is cheap.

Eating crap is convenient.

[MrB]

Eating healthy is cheap, but requires effort.

Eating crap is convenient, and “the poor” and your average 0bama voter is just plain lazy.

[carton253]

Okay... you win the argument.

[ridesthemiles]

Meat is not cheap where I live. Not even hamburger.”

Cattle are on pasture until late summer or early fall. Then they are sent to the feed lots to fatten up on corn.

We are using almost 30% of the national corn crop for Ethanol.

THAT is what is driving up the price of meat.....

[ridesthemiles]

Yesterday I got two pork chops for $3.75”

HOLY COW!!!! I choked when I read that!!

I bought boneless pork loins in the Cry-o-vac bags for about $20 per loin at Smith’s in Dayton, Nevada.

Cut them up myself & bag into Ziplock=2 to a bag & freeze.

I got about 30 porkchopc out of the single loin. That makes each chop cost me about 67 cents & would be $1.34 for 2. If you paid $3.75 for 2, I saved about $2.41.

I watch for the sales on those loins & have gotten them for as low as $14 per loin. Doesn’t take that long to cut them up & bag for the freezer.

I also buy chicken thighs for 99cents a pound, 10 to a large pack. COOK them up slowly in the turkey roaster or crock pot & bag them COOKED into ziplocks. Pull a bag out in the AM for dinner. Reheat or use for sandwich or eat cold on a hot day. About 50 cents per thigh.
I then use the pan juices for stock for soup for cold days. Veggies & barley for a hearty soup.

[allmendream]

Sounds like you are doing it up better than I my FRiend!

My point was that meat is cheap. You are pointing out that if you buy it in bulk and process it yourself, it is even cheaper!

My point was that for $5 worth of ingredients I had two home cooked nutritious meals instead of three Red Baron Pizzas.

Good job with the stock! Waste not want not. I feed any leftover meaty goodness to my dog over her crunchers.

[Dionysius]

Was this the “George Costanza Institute for Marine Biology”?

[Joan Kerrey]

They feed them all summer

And that’s probably why the big push for school all year.
Another attempt to make an entire generation dependent on government.

[Wuli]

So more money will be sucked from the private sector, and from the jobs it could be creating, and denying the creation of the very jobs these “poor” childrens parents actually need.

Government charity is not charity; it is politicians robbing from the people - taking money out of the private sector - to pay for the politicians “preferred” “charitable” causes; which politicizes “charity” and, over time, turns charity into just another government function, but with diminishing returns because of what gets sucked (and increasingly so) out of the private economy, the peoples private choices, in order to fund the politicians charities.

[ilovesarah2012]

When my kids were in school (the youngest graduated in 2005), at the beginning of the school year, the schools really pushed kids to fill out the school lunch paperwork and I know for a fact many lied on the applications. Nothing was verified so there is obviously a high fraud rate with the program. I imagine it has only gotten worse.

[Myrddin]

I had to look up George Costanza because I don't waste time watching TV. I suspect that is a fair characterization. My son was often beaten up on the playground for being the top fly on the dung pile. He asked to return to our neighborhood school where he caught up on months of work in about 3 weeks. He always worked well beyond the ability of the schools to educate him.

[ilovesarah2012]

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