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DC Students Receive Dinner at School
fox ^ | Tuesday, 19 Oct 2010, 10:53 PM EDT | AUDREY BARNES

Posted on 10/21/2010 10:40:08 AM PDT by BenLurkin

D.C. joins 13 states which serve three meals a day at school – and to the tune of $5.7 million. Officials here have embraced the program because they realize healthy, well-fed kids learn better.

“We're reaching 10,000 kids a day at 99 of our 120 schools," said Anthony Tata, Chief Operating Officer of D.C. Public Schools.

That's about 25 percent of the student population. And another big benefit of the after school dinners are that more kids are enrolling in after school programs where they can get some academic help as well.

So the dinners are really serving three purposes - fighting hunger, obesity and offering help with classwork too.

And the best news of all is this is a federally-funded program.

“We're reimbursed on a per meal basis," Tata said. "We can already see the good it's doing for our kids."

(Excerpt) Read more at myfoxdc.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption
KEYWORDS: 2takeawayparenting; 4thecommongood; foodstamps; sterilize; sterilizethem
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To: BenLurkin

Might as well add hot baths/showers,lodging, and clean beds, along with pajamas with the “Yes we can” logo.


21 posted on 10/21/2010 10:58:15 AM PDT by luvbach1 (Stop Barry now. He can't help himself.)
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To: luvbach1

Uniforms. And chants.


22 posted on 10/21/2010 10:59:41 AM PDT by BenLurkin (This post is not a statement of fact. It is merely a personal opinion -- or humor -- or both.)
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To: Will88

I read that too and was thinking there is no way he came up with that....he was coached big time.


23 posted on 10/21/2010 11:01:37 AM PDT by napscoordinator
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To: BenLurkin

24 posted on 10/21/2010 11:02:41 AM PDT by traditional1 ("Don't gotsta worry 'bout no mo'gage, don't gotsta worry 'bout no gas; Obama go:nna take care o' me!)
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To: PGR88

No, two jobs:

Vote Democrat
Birth new Democrat voters


25 posted on 10/21/2010 11:02:43 AM PDT by PogySailor (The ruling class will not go down easily. And neither will their paid hacks.)
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To: bigdaddy45

Oh those presents are covered too.

Last year my company volunteered at the Salvation Army to help give out Christmas presents.

I remember carrying some really heavy bags filled with toys for a woman to her Cadillac Escalade while she was talking on her blue tooth phone.


26 posted on 10/21/2010 11:07:01 AM PDT by MNDude (Ask the Native American's how their "Open Borders" policy worked out for them.)
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To: BenLurkin
Officials here have embraced the program because they realize healthy, well-fed kids learn better.

Learn what? Even the healthy kids in these public schools won't be able to read by the time they "graduate".
27 posted on 10/21/2010 11:24:15 AM PDT by fr_freak
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To: BenLurkin

The basic fabric of society in inner city Black America has disintegrated. Black America is on its knees. Its the Lord of the Flies. It Orwell’s 1984. Mad Max. Rwanda, North Korea, Zimbabwe and its right in our back yards.

The only thing preventing Detroit, DC, etc from facing reality is the state and federal handouts that prop this hell up. Evil systems shouldn’t be put on life support. The plug should be pulled.

Not one more dime to keep things the way they are!


28 posted on 10/21/2010 11:30:55 AM PDT by Mad_as_heck (The MSM - America's (domestic) public enemy #1.)
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To: BenLurkin

The lazy fat mama motto: I breed. You feed.


29 posted on 10/21/2010 11:35:19 AM PDT by kittymyrib
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To: Will88
"Yeah right, we all know that's exactly the sort of thing a fourth grader would say."

When you've been brainwashed by the school system since Head Start at the age of 3, sure it is.

30 posted on 10/21/2010 11:42:45 AM PDT by JustaDumbBlonde (Don't wish doom on your enemies. Plan it.)
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To: Mad_as_heck
"The only thing preventing Detroit, DC, etc from facing reality is the state and federal handouts that prop this hell up."

To be totally honest, the biggest thing preventing a realisitic look and repairing the problem is that we aren't allowed to speak of the problem without someone screaming racism. A problem is never solved when open discussion can't be had concerning said problem.

31 posted on 10/21/2010 11:45:53 AM PDT by JustaDumbBlonde (Don't wish doom on your enemies. Plan it.)
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To: BenLurkin

We all know damn well that the parents of these kids get food stamps. Why can’t they cook? Drugged out? Too lazy?

Geesh

I also heard yesterday that there are many people who can well afford to feed their own kids taking advantage of this program.

Bet they are all leftists.


32 posted on 10/21/2010 11:46:30 AM PDT by dforest
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To: indylindy

Too lazy. That’s it. No other explanation needed.
What’s the solution?

Proverbs 16:26
The laborer’s appetite works for him;
his hunger drives him on.

2 Thess 3:10
For even when we were with you, we gave you this rule: “If a man will not work, he shall not eat.”


33 posted on 10/21/2010 11:49:44 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a (de)humanist and a Satanist is that the latter knows who he's working for.)
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To: JustaDumbBlonde
the biggest thing preventing a realisitic look and repairing the problem is that we aren't allowed to speak of the problem without someone screaming racism. A problem is never solved when open discussion can't be had concerning said problem.

100% in agreement. Nothing is hurt by debate. Only by enforced silence.

34 posted on 10/21/2010 11:55:24 AM PDT by Mad_as_heck (The MSM - America's (domestic) public enemy #1.)
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To: indylindy

“I also heard yesterday that there are many people who can well afford to feed their own kids taking advantage of this program.”

My daughter went to a school where lunches were free for all the kids because there were so many on the free lunch program it wasn’t worth figuring out who wasn’t. I packed my daughter’s lunch. I discovered her ham sandwiches where quite the trade item. The two halves went to the highest junk food item bidders. She was golden at lunch with what I packed. LOL.


35 posted on 10/21/2010 11:57:07 AM PDT by pops88
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To: BenLurkin

Leave it to the leftist scum of the Democrats in Washing to continue to fail to undertsand their issue. When you have so many kids needing help after school where is the failure? With the school system. How come I remember as a kid very few needing this kind of attention? Why are they so bad? From grade school forward the public school system is failing wildly. The hatred of the Christian God, the resentment of standards for kids an dteachers and the abysmal lack of real discipline are all factors they refuse to address.


36 posted on 10/21/2010 12:03:45 PM PDT by ICE-FLYER (God bless and keep the United States of America)
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To: pops88
The two halves went to the highest junk food item bidders.

You've got yourself a little entrepreneur on your hands. Good for you and good for her!

37 posted on 10/21/2010 12:17:11 PM PDT by 1forall (America - my home, my land, my country.)
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To: camle

or are the famlies double-dipping?”

Surely not.


38 posted on 10/21/2010 12:25:58 PM PDT by Grams A (The Sun will rise in the East in the morning and God is still on his throne.)
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To: 1forall

“You’ve got yourself a little entrepreneur on your hands. Good for you and good for her! “

Thank you. She’s 15 and in her 5th semester at UNLV thanks to mostly being home schooled. What a nightmare the few years were when she went to public school. I could just about write a book and would have easily won millions if I’d sued the 2 times I could have. I don’t believe in destroying people’s lives though when they’re just trying to honestly make a living.


39 posted on 10/21/2010 12:31:07 PM PDT by pops88
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To: Arrowhead1952

If you cut the food stamp allowance, then they won’t have any stamps to sell so they can get some money for drugs.


40 posted on 10/21/2010 12:36:53 PM PDT by BilLies (no)
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