[Diana in Wisconsin]

This is simply amazing to me! I'm curious as to what programs you have for meals in your schools. To me, we have gotten so far away from personal responsibility in our state, that this is just another example of the "Nanny State" our socialist Governor wants us to be enslaved by. Property taxes? School taxes? Oh, yeah. They'll be raised. He just VETOED a freeze on Property Taxes for us.

Maybe someone from school should come and bathe and dress your kids for you in the mornings, too? Somehow, I managed to dress and feed my kids breakfast, and pack their lunches, too!

The school districts in this article are not "poor" by ANY means; these parents (single or otherwise) CAN afford to feed their kids breakfast at home.

AND...Wisconsin has some of the smartest kids in the NATION. SAT tests are top-notch. So the "hungry kids can't learn" leftist creedo doesn't hold water, either.

[massgopguy]

One day they'll just keep them.

[stylin19a]

no mention about how many students use the program.

[BenLurkin]

"They aren't remembering those single families, maybe holding down a couple of jobs, maybe not enough money to provide a nutritious breakfast."

Nonsense! I suggest they try this . . . It is dirt cheap and you will actually live longer having it for breakfast everyday than you will eating bacon and eggs.

[Rakkasan1]

I'm sure if they can't afford Cheerios that they can qualify for the WIC program. But that might involve the
hard work of pouring it in the bowl for them.(sarcasm)

[w1andsodidwe]

Well I read a few years ago that California wanted to initiate serving the evening meal as they already served Breakfast and lunch.

I guess being a parent no longer includes feeding your children. I guess the food stamps are used for a different purpose.

Perhaps this could be one reason for the epidemic of obesity amoung children.

[tfecw]

I think i was a junior in HS before I figured out you could get breakfast at school. But you had to get their early and we had morning practice for soccer. That plus the social stigma of eating breakfast at school. I seem to recall that the "Cool" kids didn't bother with breakfast.

[randog]

"When the need is there, I think it's pretty immoral of us not to be there doing what we can," State Representative Sondy Pope-Roberts said. "It's a pretty simple thing once it gets going."

Yes, your children need to eat breakfast. Yes, it is immoral (and probably illegal) if their parents don't feed them. Yes, it's a fairly simple thing to feed your kids breakfast.

[joesnuffy]

AT last something the Socialist Republik of Doyle/LautensLaager can be proud of...

imo

[CharacterCounts]

The fact that they can go to school earlier, was the number one reason why we went with it,"

Is she looking for breakfast or free latch key??

[TChris]

The school districts in this article are not "poor" by ANY means; these parents (single or otherwise) CAN afford to feed their kids breakfast at home.

I seriously doubt there is a single school district in the USA where people are too poor to feed their kids breakfast. That's just pro-socialist BS. Now, there are certainly plenty of parents too lazy to drag their carcasses out of bed to make breakfast for their kids, but I'd sure like someone to show me a family in the USA who honestly can't get any food.

[Dr. Frank fan]

Translation:

Wisconsin parents are the most responsible in the country. They actually (imagine!) feed their own kids breakfast at a higher rate than parents in any other state.

[LibFreeOrDie]

Geez, how frickin' lazy can parents get! God forbid she should get up a few minutes early to set the table with food for her kids.

What does it take to stock the fridge and cupboards at home with kid-friendly food they can eat as-is or safely microwave.

Oh, but that might take $$ away from the welfare money that Mom and her boy friend want to spend on recreational beverages.

[CTOCS]

After she gives birth, why doesn't she just leave the child at the hospital?

Why bother with all this parenting and personal responsibility when the state will do it all for you??

These liberal pols make me sick.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

Thank Goodness! I thought I was maybe nuts, or being mean to hungry kids or something! The more I think about this, the more I see:

1. It's GOTTA be a fully funded Government PROGRAM.
2. Fully STAFFED by UNION members, of course!
3. More food contracts for McDonalds, Pizza Hut, Vending Machine companies, etc.

This isn't about feeding hungry kids. It's about milking the government cow, also known as The Taxpayer!

[robomurph]

We Badgers eat too much, drink too much, are too over weight, have too many guns, eat too many mercury poisoned fish, drive our snowmobiles too fast, smoke too much, underfund our schools, need state funded preschool, and are too stingy to buy breakfast for every kid in the state, our septic tanks are destroying the environment, etc...

But kids score high on the SATs and we have the longest life expectancy in the nation.

Clearly, more socialism is the answer

Rant off/Sarcasm off

[Osage Orange]

Geesh...I'm an idiot...Cause I thought when reading the headline..that someone actually was embarrassed that they would be even "offering" school breakfast's.

I've been duped again.............

[HamiltonJay]

"The fact that they can go to school earlier, was the number one reason why we went with it," Anna's mother, Jodi Toppel said. "Now that they have the breakfast there, it's a lot less hassles in the morning."

Amazing.. its a hassle to put some cereal on a bowl and poor milk on it for your own KIDS!!!! I'm glad this self centered narcicist wasn't my mother... lazy [*&^#%@]!

[HungarianGypsy]

My family was low income. But, I never had school breakfasts. It was cheaper to have a bowl of cereal in the morning, rather than get up earlier to eat at school.

[JesseHousman]

Why don't they just sleep there and the state can call it an orphanage!

[TruthShallSetYouFree]

School Breakfast Program in WI Embarassing

What's really embarrassing is an article about schools that misspells a key word in the headline.