[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.

[AppyPappy]

We pay for school breakfast. The alternative is to put them in the school gym for "Lord of the Flies" activities.

[Portnoy]

I remember growing up and making cereal with blue milk. BLUE MILK! Actually it was powdered milk, but it always had a "blue" tint to it and it NEVER really got cold. I remember throwing a bunch of that crappy Nestles Strawberry mix into it to kill the taste.

But we used it till my Father got paid more. Some things you just have to do to get by. Now I only buy whole milk though, anything else is to darn close to "blue". (no more Strawberry milk either...)

I have a great deal of respect for my parents, raising four kids on a limited income. They did EVERYTHING for us to get a good education and a happy home life.

[MississippiMan]

Speaking of breakfast, many years ago my third-grade daughter asked me one day if she could have permission to lie to her teacher. Quite naturally, I took that as a bizarre question and asked for details. She explained that every day, each student had to tell the class what they had for breakfast that morning. And every time my little girl listed things like bacon, buttered toast, eggs, pancakes, etc., the teacher singled her out and told her how bad she was for eating "bad food" like that, how she should go home and tell her parents she wasn't going to eat such bad foods anymore and demand "good foods" for breakfast like fruit, etc.

I'll let you guess as to how this revelation was received, but I'll tell you that I had her in another school within the week.

MM

[REPANDPROUDOFIT]

Maybe someone from school should come and bathe and dress your kids for you in the mornings,

Let 'um buy the clothes for them too.

[ThisLittleLightofMine]

I get really fired up on this one too. In WA state, the have free lunch/reduced lunches for .60 cents. Meanwhile I (if my daughter eats at school) has to pony up $1.75. These lunches aren't free or reduced, they are subsidized by me and you. I don't have a problem with helping those in need. But isn't that what WIC is for and other social programs? My mother raised us (3 children) all alone without any assistance or free lunches or food stamps. We went without many material things, but we always had food. Why don't people realize that we are not helping people with handouts....we are simply enslaving them to the system.

[WIladyconservative]

My community school district (an upscale NW suburb of Milwaukee) instituted this fiasco last year in the middle and High schools. IIRC, there were a whopping 15 students TOTAL who used it all year.

This is the same district that's trying to pass yet ANOTHER referendum to get their hands deeper into our pockets. Is it any wonder I home school?

[freemama]

Some of the people suggesting these programs really do care about the kids who are not fed before school. I am grateful there are people like them in the world to look out for those who really need help.

That said, I do think the number of people who will enrols their children in these programs will be much larger than it needs to be. The kids get to be at school 30 minutes earlier each morning, so the parents don't have to make breakfast and can go about their other business sooner. Almost free food, free childcare - they will be signing up like crazy.

[Paleo Conservative]

Barf Alert!

I'm sure the "food" served also rates a "Barf Alert".

[hushpad]

Now that they have the breakfast there, it's a lot less hassles in the morning."

Well, how nice it is for the taxpayers to make the toppels morning go so much smoother! /Sarcasm

[balrog666]

Wisconsin is 50th in the nation when it comes to the number of schools that offer breakfast programs, and the number of low-income students

I must have missed it - why is this bad?

Wisconsin is 50th in the nation when it comes to the number of schools that offer breakfast programs, and the number of low-income students

And don't they think there might be a correlation between these two items?

[Koan]

Yup, just what our kids need - more time in the government-run Education Centers and less time with the family. A perfect strategy for the RATS.

[Dont Mention the War]

Wisconsin is 50th in the nation when it comes to the number of schools that offer breakfast programs, and the number of low-income students

Wait, are they complaining that Wisconsin doesn't have enough poor students?

[Lancey Howard]

LMAO!
When is the government going to decide to give every kid a split level? It's not fair that some kids have their own bedroom to study in and other kids don't. What? Doesn't the government like kids?

[KfromMich]

I wonder what they want to serve for breakfast. At my high school they served breakfast, but instead of buying an entire breakfast, you could buy the individual items. On the days I got breakfast, I would get either a cinnamon roll or a Twix bar. Yummy, but probably not what nutritionists would recommend for breakfast. Also, a lot of kids at that school probably don't need breakfast because they have lunch so early. (First lunch was at 10:30 the last I heard.)

[spunkets]

School is not a restaurant. Unless it's milk and cookies, the kids think it's commercial road kill.

[gnarledmaw]

This reminds me of a show I recently saw part of on The Discovery Channel(?). There was a Russian kid narrating over footage of his average day. Every morning the kid got up and quick ate cheese sandwiches for breakfast because he had to leave the house by 4:30 or 5AM so that he could be to school early enough to recieve his mandatory bowl of buckwheat gruel for breakfast...