Forever Free School Lunches

This is a huge issue our state. To keep the free lunches or not.

When the pandemic hit, the schools went to free lunches and a breakfast and I believe a snack for some.

I have always been of the mind that if you don't have the means to supoort your children don't have them.
I am also very soft hearted when it comes to kids. In the overall scheme of things, I would rather my tax money go
toward this then many other fiscially irresponsible costs.

Then I go back because I know this is the start to who really "owns" your children. It's a slippery slope!
First school lunches, and testing, and vaccines, and then it will be that you don't have the authority to make decisions for your children.
I think we are right at the crux with this right now.

Is this just our state or is anyone else dealing with this?

a reply to: JAGStorm

I work for the school system for a while as a teacher, the free lunches were only for under privilege children, they did breakfast too.

No parent in their right mind, will allow their children to eat the crap that is been served in public schools these days, nobody, is full unhealthy junk.

When I was growing up, the food we ate were cooked in the school kitchen, you could smell everything all morning, all fresh from scratch, it was the best food ever and plentiful.

Those days are all gone.

My girlfriend showed me a picture her son sent, he's not suppose to have one on him but in emergencies? It's a must,(just an old flip phone he keeps in his bag), That said the way the lunches looked they should be free anyways.. looked like crap and all the money it costs to get kids enrolled and on top, taxes..

Michelle Obama is proud of her effort for S##T food....

originally posted by: JAGStorm
Is this just our state or is anyone else dealing with this?

We had free lunches when I was kid back in the 80's but you had to be like Kenny McCormick to get them. Either way, I wasn't allowed to eat school food, the old lady made lunches for my brother and I which I'm sure is one of the reasons neither one of us has diabetes or is a fat bastard now. Why would you want that dreck, let alone three times a day?

a reply to: marg6043

I work for the school system for a while as a teacher, the free lunches were only for under privilege children, they did breakfast too.

This is different, this is state wide for every single student regardless of income.

Its not really FREE lunches anyway

Its payed through taxes

My daughter and my son told me several times that the snack they were given in the schools were always moldy, I pay for the darn stuff and my children got moldy food.

a reply to: AugustusMasonicus

Either way, I wasn't allowed to eat school food, the old lady made lunches for my brother and I which I'm sure is one of the reasons neither one of us has diabetes or is a fat bastard now.

When I was in middle school the kids were able to work in the cafeteria. My parents said Ok and I could keep my lunch money. I was helping the lunch lady and she lost her fake nail in one of the casseroles and that was the day that school lunch was killed for me!
I lived in Europe for High school so lunches there were amazing!

originally posted by: marg6043
My daughter and my son told me several times that the snack they were given in the schools were always moldy, I pay for the darn stuff and my children got moldy food.

I believe it, I think it is actually lower quality than prison food. That being said, that really isn't the issue.
The issue is should states even do this?

a reply to: JAGStorm

When I was younger we were poor as heck.. It was free for me for awhile, now I'm 43 lol.. I make my own lunch and it's usually raunchy as heck..

I would rather my taxes go to crappy food then in board members pockets...

I am Puerto Rican, our lunches were real food like mom made at home, rice, beans, vegetables were local, and the dessert were real traditional Puerto Rican sweets.

Oh, my gosh, it was the best ever, it was free and nobody will go hungry.

We had two types of milk, cold white milk and warm delicious peanut butter milk, back then nobody had any issues with peanut allergies.

The extra protein was because back in the days we were all skinny but healthy.

I forgot the meat, chicken and pork.

originally posted by: JAGStorm
I lived in Europe for High school so lunches there were amazing!

Yeah, I recall being there on spring break when my cousins were still in school and the mentioned they basically got the equivalent of homecooked food in school. School lunches in the United States are primarily what the average slob eats at home; unboxed processed crap. Schools here prepare lunch as opposed to cooking lunch.

originally posted by: AugustusMasonicus
which I'm sure is one of the reasons neither one of us has diabetes or is a fat bastard now.

Is that a poke at someone we all know and love?

I vote get rid of cafeterias in school. If a kid's parents want them to eat at school, they will come up with the means to do so. I mean ... for crying the eff out loud ... I was an E-6 with two kids in school back in the 80s ... on no assistance at all.

Did they offer assistance?
Yes.
Do you want it they asked?
"What color am I?" I answered.

I wasted money chain smoking cigarettes back then too. I would've quit if that meant my kids were going hungry.

Underprivileged? Is that nail polish I see on those two-inch fingernails attached to hands that do no work whatsoever?

a reply to: JAGStorm

Eastern PA reporting.... all the local school districts in my area have gone to free lunches, afaik.

The high school my daughter currently attends has free lunches. She tried them a couple times, and said they were awful. So we pack everyday.

a reply to: JAGStorm

Is not a choice, the state is going to do what they always do and is beyond the taxpayer opinion.

We are nothing but the slaves to the state.

Welcome to the new America, with all those illegal children filling the school system they need to eat too, soo pay your taxes and be quiet.

Our school district is free breakfast and lunch for every child -- kindergarten through high school.

Also provided free during summer and holiday breaks -- pick up at assigned schools.

Children do not need to be hungry.

Whatever good or bad decisions their parents made -- it never the child's fault.

originally posted by: JAGStorm
This is a huge issue our state. To keep the free lunches or not.

When the pandemic hit, the schools went to free lunches and a breakfast and I believe a snack for some.

I have always been of the mind that if you don't have the means to supoort your children don't have them.
I am also very soft hearted when it comes to kids. In the overall scheme of things, I would rather my tax money go
toward this then many other fiscially irresponsible costs.

Then I go back because I know this is the start to who really "owns" your children. It's a slippery slope!
First school lunches, and testing, and vaccines, and then it will be that you don't have the authority to make decisions for your children.
I think we are right at the crux with this right now.

Is this just our state or is anyone else dealing with this?

All of the above just reinforces my position that procreation is NOT a human right. Protect life in the womb, by all means, but the implication is that the actual process of gestation is not a lifestyle choice, rather it's a sacred privilege that should be licensed for the good of future generations who may or may not be at risk in terrible homes with barely sustainable resources. Your remarks further illustrate what I have observed to be a thoroughly abused aspect of society.

a reply to: AugustusMasonicus

Yeah, I recall being there on spring break when my cousins were still in school and the mentioned they basically got the equivalent of homecooked food in school. School lunches in the United States are primarily what the average slob eats at home; unboxed processed crap. Schools here prepare lunch as opposed to cooking lunch.

We were able to eat off campus and get this........Have a meal with our teachers and drink beer!!
Yes no big deal. If you were at least 13 drinking beer was no problem, it was seen as a beverage and not alcoholic.
Some of the food was simple, but it was so fresh, and organic and pure. When I came back to the US I cried over the food and how chemical it tasted! :*( so greasy, and the soda sizes too! uggg

originally posted by: JAGStorm
Some of the food was simple, but it was so fresh, and organic and pure.

One of the best, if not the best thing about Europe, is the food.