[9YearLurker]

Tough words but true.

[Vigilanteman]

What’s wrong with cheese sandwiches. I’ve always been rather fond of cheese. Bread? Not so much. America makes some of the worst bread in the world. I came to understand this after spending 14 years in Japan where bread is made from the same American wheat (mostly) but in a way where it is delicious.

[Raycpa]

My parents supplied school lunch money during high school. I would ask my friends for leftovers and deposited my lunch money in the bank so I could buy a car.

[miss marmelstein]

A little over the top for a lousy cheese sandwich!

Sort of like Delta taking away kids...

[Tax-chick]

What on earth is the relevance of the flock of pigeons (?) in the illustration? Are we supposed to subconsciously imagine the hungry children’s going out to hunt their own lunches rather than eat an embarrassing cheese sandwich?

I’m getting more and more irritated at the apparently random photos with every article at a variety of sites. If the programmers don’t have a picture of the specific subject, just give us text and save some electrons.

(/rant off)

[Gritty]

When I was a kid, a lot of us lived on the peanut butter and jelly or cheese sandwiches our mothers gave us for lunch. They wrapped them in wax paper and put them in a paper bag. If we were lucky, we maybe got an apple, banana, or a couple of crackers. We used the wax paper to sit on when we rode down the high playground slide. Boy, did that wax grease that slide! Unfortunately, the paper was only good for about three or four slides.

None of us kids starved - even the poorest kids, and we lived in a poor town with a lot of poverty. There was no such thing as a government lunch. Even the poorest of families provided a bag lunch for their kids. I can't ever remember an exception.

[Xenodamus]

I am an educator and a a rather old-fashioned and conservative one at that. Schools are taking over more and more of the rolls of parents. It is disgusting. S/ Schools should should just go ahead and create dormitories and raise the little buggers from cradle to grave! S/ That, at least, is where I feel they are headed. We need more right thinking conservatives in education.

[Badboo]

Like the opioid pandemic, there is really no cure for bad parenting in America today. Between the lazy assed parents who don't cook and the dumb ...ks that feed or buy their obeselies crap, you've covered 95% of the kids. You can't take that many away, besides the schools already got them.

When I see the number of fat parents and fat kids today, I realize just how bad parents have become - purveyors of disease and early death to their own offspring.

Thank God some of us grew up in an earlier era.

[DoodleBob]

What an ignorant article. Society permits local government to conscript children to school, assess confiscatory levels of taxation upon property owners to pay for said schooling (and all the attendant infrastructure and sports etc.), set up a legal structure where parents have few rights vs Levithan which stands in loco parentis, and leave said children in a system where self-defense is a crime, bullying is given bumper sticker-like attention yet tacitly encouraged by statist faculty...and the best Mr. Hunter can do is advocate a 2-minute hate against the parents?

To be sure, as the late great Philadelphia talk show host Irv Homer put it, you can't raise a thoroughbred when the parents are asses. But when the government takes so much from parents and redistribute that wealth to, among other entities, local crony capitalist food wholesalers so the schools can pay for a mandated free lunch, I can think of about 17 other things to attack first.

Harsh words...but misplaced. Swing and a miss Mr. Hunter.

[King Moonracer]

A lack of shame is behind many of societies ills. Why be ashamed of failure when you can play the victimization card? Parents should be ashamed of raising feral children rather than popping out a few more to get welfare for longer. The war on poverty failed because shame wasn’t motivating people to lift themselves up.

[IronJack]

Is the child too lazy or stupid to put a slice of bologna between two pieces of bread? If she’s old enough to whine about how “embarrassed” she was, she’s old enough to make her own danged lunch.

[a real Sheila]

I’m sure school kids in Venezuela would LOVE to have a cheese sandwich.

Wonder if the lunch ladies could offer them as grilled cheese sandwiches.

[P.O.E.]

Look at any welfare schedule. You get more money for having more kids. The gov’t raises, feeds, etc., then reaps the new crop of voters for more government.

It’s what politicians mean when they say “investment”.

[ConservaTeen]

Let’s see now. My parents told me they used to bring lunch to school, if my dad didn’t go home (dad lived next to the school). My parents said they might have eaten 25 hot meals in schools.

[NTHockey]

>>If you won’t provide your child with food you should lose your child. <<

AMEN. However, those “parents” don’t see a child, they see a government check. Take away the child, take away the payment.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

The New York Times had a big story on how children were made to eat cheese sandwiches because their parents had paid off their school lunch debt.

Pardon?

Is there, perhaps, a word or two missing in this sentence or have the school administrators gone insane?

"I see your lunch account is up to date Billy, so you must eat a cheese sandwich."

"But I don't like cheese."

"Shut up! You'll eat it and like it!"

[oldtech]

As best I can remember,there was no such thing as “lunch shaming” when I was in school & my parents were poor or very close to it.. I spent a few years of my time working in the cafeteria & that paid for my lunch. That worked out pretty well. I don’t remember if there were any who had to do without. If there were,it was very few.