Posted on 03/13/2020 11:53:21 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
ELK GROVE, Calif. - Kiyana Esco needs free school lunches and breakfasts to feed her six children. But with schools shutting down over coronavirus concerns, she’s scrambling to pick up the meals, care for her kids and keep her job.
Esco, a single mother, manager at a Dollar Tree, fears she’ll be fired because she can’t work following school closures in Elk Grove, the fifth-largest district in California. She’s among the parents who are relying on school leaders as they look for ways to keep millions of America’s poorest children from going hungry.
While schools across the U.S. close their doors to try to prevent the spread of the new virus, they’re cobbling together arrangements for grab-and-go lunch bags or setting up delivery routes. Congress is considering making it easier for school meals to be passed out at places like food banks as schools shut down in Ohio, Maryland and New Mexico and in major cities like Los Angeles, Houston, San Francisco, Seattle and Washington, D.C.
“A substantial percentage of our students depend upon the schools for eating,” Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot said Thursday. “They depend upon the schools for shelter and in some instances for where they get their clothing and other needs.”
But others, like Los Angeles and San Diego, which had held out on closing for the same reasons, on Friday announced they would close.
The urgent decisions have left schools and cities scrambling to figure out how to make sure students don’t go hungry.
“It’s been extremely stressful. Everything is evolving by the hour with new cases, new proclamations,” said Michelle Price, a school administrator who oversees 29 districts in Washington state, where many schools are closed until April 24. “We haven’t dealt with anything like this, so we’re doing as we’re learning.”
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Don’t breed ‘em if you can’t feed ‘em...
lot of health care workers have kids in school, and other important parts of the economy.
So how do they adapt and keep working when schools shut down
That’s why it’s hysterical that some people think we will get the minority woman vite.
The government is their husband and their children’s father.
Hmmm, that seems to identify a major problem right there. (Hint: its not the school closure)
SIX KIDS.
Merciful Maude, I hope she’s fixed.
What about child support from their FATHERS and not the US Taxpayer????
Trash.
Kiyana and millions like her will be the first to go if the worst case scenarios do really happen and the free sh!t from the governments stops.
SIX kids....
Well.. That may be the root cause here.
Everyone should know by now how stupid it was to offload our manufacturing to China. The same principle holds true here. It’s just as stupid to offload the care and feeding of our children from the family to government schools.
Maybe the oldest can learn how to make peanut butter sandwiches for the rest of them.
This so p***** me off. Feed your kids. It's your job...not the governments.
Don’t breed ‘em if you can’t feed ‘em...
That should be our national motto
Yeah, 6 kids and not married with no child support is the major problem here.
But thinking back to my youth if a family or families were in a bind we would work together to help each other. Watch each others homes or kids. Pick them up when we were going someplace anyway.
I guess there’s no community or church there... I guess societal community support that would alleviate these issues in the past are gone and it’s all “Big Daddy Government” now.
Kudos to the FReeper who first came up with the term “urban livestock” to describe people like this.
“A substantial percentage of our students depend upon the schools for eating,” Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot said Thursday. “They depend upon the schools for shelter and in some instances for where they get their clothing and other needs.”
I think I see the problem.
I have a friend who in the late 90’s was asked when enrolling her children for elementary school if she would like to sign up for free meals. She told the person asking that if she couldn’t afford to feed them, she wouldn’t have had them. She remains fiercely independent to this day and her kids are gone and married.
This is how you breed a welfare class that votes for a living. Where are the six sperm donors for this woman’s children? No one should bring children into the world who can’t be fed.
This nation lacks an essential element for civilization. That element is shame.
“Free”??? “Free”??? Fu#% you, Associated Press.
Along with “Train ‘em or chain ‘em.”
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