Posted on 10/19/2010 12:08:56 PM PDT by ilovesarah2012
D.C. public schools have started serving an early dinner to an estimated 10,000 students, many of whom are now receiving three meals a day from the system as it expands efforts to curb childhood hunger and poor nutrition.
Free and reduced-price breakfast and lunch long have been staples in most urban school systems. But the District is going a step further in 99 of its 123 schools and reaching nearly a quarter of its total enrollment. Montgomery and Prince George's counties also offer a third meal of the day in some schools but not on the scale undertaken in the city.
The program, which will cost the school system about $5.7 million this year, comes at a time of heightened concern aboutchildhood poverty in the city. Census data show that the poverty rate among black children is 43 percent, up from 31 percent in 2007 and significantly higher than national rates.
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Cato estimates that DC schools actually spend 28K per student.
Meals will be provided by the federal Summer Food Service Program every Monday through Friday, although no meals will be served July 2 or 5.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2526610/posts
Some districts are already feeding them during the summer.
My brother is a teacher and some of his kids get food sent home with them for the weekend.
Now, this thread shows the schools moving to 3 meals a day, supervised daycare and transportation at taxpayer expense. Union daycare supervision with faux "education" degrees and leftist agenda that would make Marx proud. Barf.
No wonder they are getting fat, two breakfasts and two dinners a day.
It's for the 8 kids of the mother with 7 different fathers....!!
The gubermint feeding students 3 times a day. What’s next, clothe them and build barracks for them so the parents don’t have to raise them at all?
These people are truly wards of the state and therefore owned by the state.
I have heard that it is expensive to eat healthy before from a bunch of know nothing shop at “Whole Foods” idiots.
Eating healthy is cheap. Staple foods are cheap. Meat is cheap. Pizza rolls and frozen fish sticks and tatertots are expensive. Four, cheese, meat, vegetables, fish and potatoes are all DIRT cheap.
I’m sorry, but I have found the opposite to be true.
I can foresee huge, state-run nurseries and daycare centers for children through 12 years of age. After that, night basketball for the teens who can be recruited from the gangs.
It must be some sort of bizarre regional effect because economically it makes absolutely no sense that highly processed foods would be LESS expensive than the staples that went into making them.
Better get Thomas Sowell on the case! ;)
“The #1 nutrition related problem of the “poor” in America is OBESITY.”
There is alot of evidence that the school lunch program has contributed to the obesity explosion. This school dinner will only exacerbate the problem. (Interestingly, students who participate only in a school breakfast program do not gain weight.) Remember the old adage: eat like a king at breakfast, a prince at lunch, and a pauper at dinner.
RE: “Cop free meals at school all day, then go home and chow down on Popeye’s.”
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Exactly — in the ghetto/barrio schools of L A Unified here in Los Angeles, my teacher friends tell me stories of kids getting free breakfast and lunch; then leaving school with whoever picks them up and going to the nearest fast food joints for more! Great use of our tax dollars, eh?
And most of the little tubbies are already too fat from lack of exercise and too much eating. It’s a huge disgusting mess and we are paying for it!
It is not cheap to eat well.
White flour is cheap. Whole wheat or rye flour is expensive. Milk is expensive. Meat is expensive. Real cheese is expensive. Fresh or frozen veggies are expensive. Potatoes are a lot more expensive than they used to be. Two years ago I could buy a 10# bag of potatoes for 1.99 now it is 3.49 for a 5 lb bag. Even white rice has more than doubled in price in two years.
But I can get a 40 count bag of pizza rolls for 1.99 or three boxes of mac and cheese or 6 packages of ramen noodle for 0.00.
You and I will just have to agree to disagree.
Mac and cheese and ramen noodle are 0.99 not 0.00, sorry for the typo.
There is poverty in those areas because of liberal policies that have destroyed the family. Giving kids 3 meals a day won’t get to the basis of the problem.
What’s next? What will liberals think of next to increase dependency on government?
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