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Originally posted by goou111
reply to post by Hefficide
I got so sick of black eyed peas and cornbread I cant even eat them anymore lol
Originally posted by DaTroof
If schools start feeding kids for free, it's only a matter of days until most kids will come to school with no lunch.
EDIT: And isn't giving underfed children free lunches exactly socialism? Just wondering how many "anti-socialists" are FOR free lunches.edit on 4-4-2013 by DaTroof because: (no reason given)
EDIT: And isn't giving underfed children free lunches exactly socialism? Just wondering how many "anti-socialists" are FOR free lunches
Originally posted by DaTroof
This may come across as callous, but don't have kids if you can't feed them.
If schools start feeding kids for free, it's only a matter of days until most kids will come to school with no lunch.
EDIT: And isn't giving underfed children free lunches exactly socialism? Just wondering how many "anti-socialists" are FOR free lunches.edit on 4-4-2013 by DaTroof because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by Carreau
I think some facts are being forgotten about here. This particular school district has decided to contract out food service to a company. Some school districts still employee their food service workers and buy the food wholesale. So since this is a completely separate company paid by the school to provide food service I can understand them not taking a loss when families don't pay for the food.
Would it be fair for any place that serves food ( Burger King, Denny's, ect) to be expected to serve food to any child that walks in and doesn't have money to pay? This company has to make a profit to stay in business and every unpaid for meal is profit loss.
And please let's not be over dramatic, missing one lunch is not "going hungry". I didn't eat lunch today and I didn't "go hungry"' If the kid missed lunch it is the parent/s fault. Every single public school system has a reduced/free lunch program for the kids if the family qualifies. Does it suck that the kids didn't get lunch? Yes Is it the schools fault? No
I bet there are TV's, cell phones, cable, and internet at the homes of these "starving" children. Priority people. Parents make sure your children are clothed, sheltered, and fed; THEN pay for crap that is a luxury.
Students at an Attleboro, Massachusetts, middle school went hungry this week, if they had a negative balance on their pre-paid lunch cards.
Five cents of debt was enough for cafeteria employees at the Coehlo Middle School to instruct kids at least one day this week to dump out the food they would have normally eaten, CNN affiliate WJAR in Rhode Island reported