Posted on 01/25/2013 1:12:01 AM PST by SMGFan
GLOUCESTER TWP. — Despite a 21 percent increase in the number of eligible students taking advantage of free and reduced-price school breakfast between 2010 and 2012, New Jersey is still ranks 46th in the nation when it comes to participation in available programs.
According to Nancy Parello, from the Newark-based nonprofit Advocates for Children of New Jersey (ACNJ), the challenge lies in convincing schools to change often decades-old ideas about how and when the breakfast should be provided to students.
“One problem is that most schools only serve breakfast before school starts, but, really, no one is there before school starts,” said Parello. “It’s about changing the mindset that many people have.
“Schools can do breakfast in the first few minutes of the day without spending that much more; the federal government reimburses school costs for all breakfasts, even the ones for those who pay.”
(Excerpt) Read more at nj.com ...
Schools push to get everyone on the school lunch/breakfast program because schools with over 50% of students on the program get more federal benefits.
All solutions that extend the working day (and pay) of NEA members are happily entertained by them.
Shouldn’t the goal be to decrease participation in such a program?
You must be in a different part of the country than me. Here, illegals are 100% speakers of the first language on your list and they do dominate the free school meal programs. We do have quite a few Hindus as well but they pretty much are all physicians on legal visas or citizens.
We had a similiar situation in a previous neighborhood. ONE FAMILY left and allowed their house to go Section 8/HUD and the ENTIRE neighborhood went downhill fast. Cars driving by all hours of the night, cops cars cruising by, guns, noise.
Amazing how quickly a place can go from good to bad
As a taxpayer with no kids in any school system, I want the schools to STOP feeding kids. That’s the parents’ job, not mine.
“Also, in some school districts, students are sent home on Friday with a backpack full of food to tide them over for the weekend.”
Nanny-state running wild; we end up with a diabetes epidemic in our underclass, to match their illiteracy epidemic...
Our Indians in NJ are a mixed bag; we have the normal “cream of the crop”, along with students working under the table who have no intention of returning to India (regardless of immigration status). Overall, a positive economic addition to NJ. Brazilians make up a large part of our illegals as well (hence the Portuguese). Mexicans were probably the last group to get here; prior to that most of our Spanish-speaking illegals were from South and Central America (and there are still scads of them arriving daily). My town, once known for its Irish & Scottish populations, now has a bigger Peruvian Day parade than the St. Patrick’s Day parade.
We also have a large number of miscellaneous “other” Asians; one town had to pass a law requiring English on signs because emergency personnel couldn’t respond effectively.
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