[Venturer]

If they stay that late they are staying too late. They should be home eating with their parents.

And not on TV trays either.

[Sacajaweau]

Schools are the ones causing obesity. Ever see those menus...Breakfast...cereal and milk.

Lunch: Go back to soup and sandwich and milk. Scr** any desserts. They simply don't need it.

[Blueflag]

I go to church with a counselor in a youth detention facility. She tells me many of the ‘kids’ look at “Juvi” as three hots and a cot ... and clean laundry ... and a dentist ... and a barber ... you get the idea.

So now the schools are pointed in the same direction — kids without adequate families and upbringing being taken care of by the ‘Village.’ Meals, clothes, and soon a place to sleep.

Sad.

[ronnie raygun]

You have given up your children to their surregate parent................ the state.

[formosa]

Why don’t we just pay the schools to provide sleeping quarters in the classroom for these kids? Do food-stamps not cover their supper at least?

[sassy steel magnolia]

Wouldn’t it be interesting if instead of the government providing the lunches that instead churches did? How many of these young people might come to fully know that they are cared for by strangers, fed by strangers, even prayed for by strangers? It might move their hearts to be open to Jesus...and what if these young people had to work for their dinner (not just be there coincidentally for academics or sports reasons) for instance, setup the chairs/tables, cleanup the dining area. So many opportunities wasted by just doling out meals by the government!

Socialists want the government to replace everything: God, parents, family, etc. I pray we can hold our line and stop the assault..

[2harddrive]

Government schools encourage DEPENDENCY, and teach the kids to Rock and Roll for Mind Control!

[Bernard Marx]

The next step will be keeping them in "school" 24/7 and "rescuing" them from their "dangerous" parents. The Brave New World elitists have had that as a goal for many years. Hillary Clinton's book "It Takes a Village" was a warning that progressives view child-rearing as a State function divorced from biological parenthood.

You may laugh at me now but just wait a few years...

[Pessimist]

Of course mom's welfare check and food stamps have been reduced commensurately. Right?

[Secret Agent Man]

More money for parents to pimp out their ride a and get their huge-ass fake nails done. Oh yeah and more hair extensions. Meth and crack are all going up in price too.

“Now don’t, go taking away my kids’ free dinners now, I dont’ have money to feed them any meals 5 days a week no more. We be depending on them free school meals from now on, you don’t even think of taking them away from us now. GO BAMA!”