Posted on 01/18/2015 6:58:37 PM PST by iowamark
First came lunch, then breakfast. Now, schools are serving dinner, too.
Theres a growing demand for schools to feed students dinner before they come home, according to the Associated Press.
Many low-income students are already provided with breakfast and lunch while they are at school. As part of the Healthy Hunger Free Kids Acta law signed by President Obama in 2010a pilot program was developed to provide free or low-price meals after school as well.
As of last year, about 1 million students across the country received dinner or an after-school snack before going home.
When kids are hungry, they dont pay attention, Bennett Kayser, a school board member for the Los Angeles Unified School District, told the AP. This is something that should have started years ago.
Evelyn Ruballos, 10, noted that she usually only eats crackers after school. And then I just go to sleep, she said.
The demand for dinner exceeds those who are in need: Some busy families have expressed desire for their children to come home already fed, freeing up time after school for sports, homework or family activities.
Rachel Dunifon, a policy professor at Cornell University, told the AP that the meals might help alleviate stress.
It could actually be good and open up more time for families, she said.
Rachel Sheffield, a policy analyst for The Heritage Foundations DeVos Center for Religion and Civil Society, said that expanding a broken welfare system without first solving its problems is not an efficient way of helping those in need.
The federal government currently operates about a dozen programs that provide food assistance to poor and lower-income Americans, Sheffield observed. On top of food programs, there are about 70 other means-tested government welfare programs that provide cash, housing, medical care and social services.
Tragically, this welfare system has failed to truly help the poor achieve self-sufficiency. Rather than continuing to expand a broken system, policymakers need to work to reform it.
Welfare was even called Aid For Dependent Children.
Now it seems welfare is so degraded our family unit that parents can no loner be relied upon to caring , responsible or sober enough to actually feed their children with the welfare money the receive so the government has to feed them at school.
Here is the AP story:
http://news.yahoo.com/la-schools-double-number-students-served-dinner-164709117.html
According to them kids are always starving or too fat. Which is it?
Because two meals per day is not enough, and will people starve to death?
Seems a shame to waste all that time they are eating, when it could be used to indoctrinate the future shock troops of the coming class war.
Why bother coming home? Those who won’t care for the kids they pop out need to just turn the over to the state. Everybody knows the “free up time for schoolwork, sports, family time” is malarkey. The ones looking for this are looking for spending less time with and having less responsibility for the ‘inconvenients’ they produce, not more.
Fortunately, I scrolled down and read your post prior to commenting. I WAS going to say....well, let's just have them shower at school too...it will be like prison or a homeless shelter. The only thing left for "three hots and a cot" will be staying overnight in the gym.
One day, they will be serving Soylent Yellow for breakfast, Soylent Orange for lunch and Soylent Green for dinner, if Queen Michelle has anything to do with it.
What do those kids 'parent' do with THEIR FOOD STAMPS? Buy drugs?
+1... that’s funny..
I saw ‘We accept EBT’ at Ross...unless Lady Gaga’s Meat outfit is selling at Ross...why does Ross accept Food Stamps?
Parents? Let’s see, I bet 99.9999% of them have siblings who are from different sperm donors....
I used to go home for lunch at times. I just had to jump the fence to go home... I was 5 .minutes late returning to class and the teacher asked me and I told her that I was cleaning my dishes I used.
To people in the inner city, what is family? Some thug on TV said, ‘The gang is my family.’ On MLKing Day, the blacks are slaves to the government.
And of course, those of us with no kids whatsoever are expected to pay for it and get absolutely nothing back...except the proverbial “you’re helping da poor”.
If taxpayers are feeding the children all their meals at school. The amount the family gets on their SNAP cards should be decreased by tha amount consumed at school. We do not need to pay twice for the children’s food.
During a recent cold snap, schools here were closed when wind chills were on the -40 range. While reporting the closings, the media also reported which schools would have food service. It was too cold to go learn, but just fine to get out for a school lunch. One has to conclude that providing cafeteria service is the highest priority for the schools now.
Can people use the card to buy something, then return it and get cash?
They buy with the EBT card and then sell the item(s) for cash.
Gosh. God bless your Mom. I have heard that from other great immigrants before. Our country is such a mess and it is so unnecessary and unfortunate. Hopefully we have a miracle and at least get a loving American into the Presidency again.
My sister (2nd grade public school teacher), when I did talk to her, said you can tell the welfare-type kids: They had the newest & best sneakers, backpacks, etc.
The taxpayers in this country might as well be gay; we take it up the a** from every angle...
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