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Free school meals [England]: Mother's 'sadness' at 'mean' food parcel
BBC ^ | 01/13/2021

Posted on 01/13/2021 3:08:21 PM PST by BenLurkin

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To: StAnDeliver

>>not a week’s worth, maybe a long weekend.

“who would normally be eligible for free school meals while schools are closed”

Are the schools supposed to provide 21 meals for a week? 5 meals (lunch) for week?

Light breakfast and an afternoon snack each day of the school week (5 days)?


21 posted on 01/13/2021 5:28:46 PM PST by a fool in paradise (Who built the cages, Joe?)
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To: BenLurkin

Well go to the store and buy your children food yourself.


22 posted on 01/13/2021 5:29:27 PM PST by MissEdie (Be the Light in Someone's Darkness.)
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To: moovova

>>And this was after walking 7 miles to school, uphill both ways.

Oh I wish we’d had a hill. We had to climb up out of the ditch.


23 posted on 01/13/2021 5:30:18 PM PST by a fool in paradise (Who built the cages, Joe?)
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To: Chicory
Maybe these families are on the dole because where they worked was shut down for the corona virus restrictions.

Granted. These are strange times. And you are also right that there is nothing the government does that it doesn't screw up. $40 for ~$5 of food. But they do have to pay someone's sister to deliver it for $20. How else can they get rewarded for being connected?

24 posted on 01/13/2021 5:34:41 PM PST by T. P. Pole
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To: hanamizu

Parents unable to provide should be helped. Parents unwilling to provide should lose their kids.

Those kids should be with parents who make it their business to provide for them. If they aren’t being fed they are being neglected/abused in other ways too.


25 posted on 01/13/2021 9:23:53 PM PST by Persevero (I am afraid propriety has been set at naught. - Jane Austen )
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To: BenLurkin

The kids were lucky they didn’t get real British food! The Virus would be the least of their troubles. In fact, British food would turn them into, or give them, the Trots.


26 posted on 01/13/2021 11:38:05 PM PST by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: moovova

#14. If you discovered a way to defy gravity, let’s patent it. We could make a fortune and save on shoe leather and gas.


27 posted on 01/13/2021 11:43:05 PM PST by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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