RE: “One place to save...
Stop all school based food programs.
We provide food stamps to families. They can feed their own.
I took a lunch to school every day. Somehow I survived. The lunch was a peanut butter and jelly sandwich each day. I loved it.
You can’t tell me that people who want to support their kids can’t find a way to come up with the few dollars needed to feed them.
Oatmeal isn’t that expensive. Cream of wheat isn’t that expensive. A few eggs per week, aren’t that expensive.
Bread isn’t that expensive. Generic brands of peanut butter aren’t that expensive.
And if families don’t want to feed their kids, then put the kids in a kid friendly place where they can be fed an taught some good values. It sure beats the gang infested areas we have today.
My heart has bled enough. It’s time to clean up our act. And this school breakfast program is worthless.”
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Agree — a friend is a long-time substitute teacher for LAUSD, in the ‘city’ neighborhoods. He has seen it all — and one of the things he’s seen is parents or whomever taking the kids from school directly to whatever fast food joint happens to be across the street from school — this...after the same kids have consumed, or at least been offered, the free lunch AND BREAKFAST in some cases.
Heaven forbid those who should be responsible for kids actually have to make sure they get three meals a day. Reports are that there is terrible waste, as kids don’t find the offerings all that appealing at times.
These same kids are, in about half the cases, OVERWEIGHT in the first place. Yeah, if I were getting food at school and from fast food joints and undoubtedly at home as well, I’d be really overweight, too.
I am so sick of all this catering to the so-called unfortunates and/or illegals that I can’t stand it anymore. I am almost ready to trade great weather and 55 years in L.A. for a more ‘normal’ environment in some ‘red’ state.
If the USA would just STOP this insane spending, zip up the borders, drop the feeding and education of illegals and most of all, STOP employers from giving work to illegals, a lot of our problems would resolve. But we know that won’t be happening.................. what a pathetic mess we are in.
I appreciate both of your comments in response to my post. Thank you.
CaliforniaCon, you touched on the kids who are heavy-set. The Left plays both ends of the spectrum on the issue of school food. We must have it because kids are going hungry. At the same time they are telling us all our kids are obese and we need to cut the calories they are eating. So which is it?
Yes, these kids are eating fast food. We all know it. Go to their homes and you’ll find bags of chips and unhealthy choices galore. We all know it. This isn’t rocket science.
LadyShires, you mentioned egg sandwiches. Our big treat on Saturday night as kids was having egg sandwiches and popcorn. We thought we had died and gone to heaven.
I realize we live in a more complex world today, but these aren’t empty suggestions or remembrances. When you don’t have a lot, you find a way to make do.
I don’t think there’s a church out there that wouldn’t scrape up some food for a family in need. If I were leaned upon in that setting, I would be glad to voluntarily help out. So would most people.
This would create a one on one contact that could help the family develop income streams.
These government handouts are defeatist, wasteful, and extremely ill-advised IMO.