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What families lost when the US lost universal free school meals
The hill ^ | 12/10/2022 | LUIS GUARDIA AND ANNA KING

Posted on 12/10/2022 1:43:05 PM PST by ChicagoConservative27

When the COVID-19 pandemic hit in early 2020, federal policymakers acted quickly and decisively to make school meals available to all children at no charge.

This policy remained in effect for two and a half years. It was a game-changer.

Across the country, school nutrition staff reported numerous benefits in the Food Research & Action Center’s (FRAC) Large School District Report, including removing the stigma from program participation and eliminating school meal debt to the benefit of both families and school districts. The policy also helped address household food insecurity, which rose significantly due to COVID-19 and allowed an additional 10 million students to eat free meals at school each day.

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To: ChicagoConservative27

Free lunches were used to force all sorts of other rules on the schools. Comply or we will take away those free lunches. School boards and local officials cannot understand that when you take money for a program you would not have wanted in the first place you then become beholden to the DOE for all sorts of other things that always cost the schools far more than they would have spent on the free lunches if they had financed them locally. Local pols simply cannot turn down free money. They cannot connect all the accompanying expenses that are costs on the schools with the offending wedge of “free lunches.” Nothing is so short sighted as a local pol seeing “free money.”.


61 posted on 12/10/2022 5:08:29 PM PST by arthurus (covfefe =)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

The only way we can return our schols to education is o somehow get the federal government totally out of education. Callifornia and probably NY and the northeast coast sates would still be insane but the rest of the country could start educating its children again.


62 posted on 12/10/2022 5:10:37 PM PST by arthurus (covfefe )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Maybe those on food stamps can start spending stamps to feed their own kids.


63 posted on 12/10/2022 5:12:04 PM PST by kenmcg (ti hi o)
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To: metmom

My primary school was a private American school in Istanbul in an old three story Victorian house with all twelve grades and 90 students. The principal was a tiny woman past 90 years old. We brought our lunches in lunchboxes and paper bags and were given an hour for lunch and manic games of team dodgeball. We had two additional 15 minute recesses in a 6 hour day. When my family returned to the USA in the late fifties, I was so far ahead academically of the public schools that They did not catch up to me until my junior year in high school. And in the fifties we had real schools that taught the three Rs.


64 posted on 12/10/2022 5:18:34 PM PST by arthurus (covfefe i)
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To: HartleyMBaldwin

I certainly has NEVER been free to ME..

Due to owning/inheriting property since 1966, I have had OVERLAPS in property ownership.

Bought first house at age 26. Now 83. Have paid out 89 YEARS for Property taxes on all those properties.

NEVER HAD ANY KIDS & NEVER USED ANY SCHOOLS OR LUNCHES.


65 posted on 12/10/2022 5:26:55 PM PST by ridesthemiles
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To: Chewbarkah

NOT only is it REDUNDANT—IMO—it is fraud.

I am convinced that the welfare people NEVER check with the schools to see what kids are getting 1-2 meals a day already.

“MOM” gets welfare for 4 kids-—4 kids are getting 20-40 meals a WEEK at school.

DOUBLE DIPPING at it’s finest.


66 posted on 12/10/2022 5:30:19 PM PST by ridesthemiles
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To: HartleyMBaldwin

FREE?!?!?!?


67 posted on 12/10/2022 5:57:53 PM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Elsie

Calm down.


68 posted on 12/10/2022 6:05:02 PM PST by HartleyMBaldwin
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To: ridesthemiles

“I am convinced that the welfare people NEVER check with the schools to see what kids are getting 1-2 meals a day already.”

SNAP rules are established by bipartisan Farm Bill in Congress. There is no provision to “check with schools”.


69 posted on 12/10/2022 6:27:25 PM PST by steve86 (Prophecies of Maelmhaedhoc O'Morgair (Latin form: Malachy))
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Ok. . .so the law providing this ‘free lunch’ expired in June . . .

Who was President, and which party controlled both houses ??


70 posted on 12/10/2022 7:27:02 PM PST by Salgak (You're in Strange Hands with Tom Stranger. . . .)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

We have a surplus of food in this country and one can easily find cheap or free food, especially if they cook themselves.


71 posted on 12/10/2022 7:30:14 PM PST by Clemenza
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To: Leep

True. These damn handouts trash the real American values most of us know/grew up with. We knew we had to do our chores as kids, plus most of us boys mowed lawns and/or shoveled snow from driveways. All of us earned our way. Our parents did give us lunch money, but; no more. We carried our books on the bus to school. No backpacks. This Nation has been trashed. Not one boy has been by my house asking if he could work in over 31 years.


72 posted on 12/10/2022 9:44:30 PM PST by Lumper20 (Through all invaders out of OUR USA.)
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To: 2banana

Agree.


73 posted on 12/10/2022 9:47:47 PM PST by Lumper20 (Through all invaders out of OUR USA.)
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To: metmom

Mine too. My parents raised seven kids with no help from the government.

They wouldn’t have taken it anyway.


74 posted on 12/10/2022 10:17:02 PM PST by jmacusa (Liberals. Too stupid to be idiots. )
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To: tet68

Library paste! Yum!


75 posted on 12/10/2022 10:17:55 PM PST by jmacusa (Liberals. Too stupid to be idiots. )
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To: HartleyMBaldwin

Where I went to school, the last thing people wanted to get into was the free lunch program. And they would deny it until they turned blue in the face being on welfare.


76 posted on 12/10/2022 10:42:35 PM PST by sport
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To: metmom

My Mom packed lunches everyday and a nickel or a dime for milk.


77 posted on 12/11/2022 7:36:27 AM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: HartleyMBaldwin

Did you live in the Estonian mountains too?
Hi neighbor.


78 posted on 12/11/2022 8:23:44 AM PST by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: tet68

Nay, lad, ‘twas the moors o’ Yorkshire.


79 posted on 12/11/2022 8:28:51 AM PST by HartleyMBaldwin
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To: Georgia Girl 2

We were in the day of 2¢ - 3¢ per half ping of very warm and often sour milk.

They let the crates sit out all day and by the time we got it it was bad, and they would not replace it. They said (which I didn’t believe them) that they didn’t have any more.


80 posted on 12/11/2022 9:11:28 AM PST by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith…)
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