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String of snow days deprives many students of food
hosted ^ | Feb 13

Posted on 02/14/2010 6:42:42 PM PST by JoeProBono

TAKOMA PARK, Md. (AP) -- As back-to-back snowstorms shuttered schools for the week across the mid-Atlantic states, parents fretted about lost learning time, administrators scheduled makeup days and teachers posted assignments online.

But Marla Caplon worried about a more fundamental problem: How would students eat? The two snowstorms that pummeled the region, leaving more than 3 feet of snow in some areas, deprived tens of thousands of children from Virginia to Pennsylvania of the free or reduced-price school lunch that may be their only nutritious meal of the day. The nonprofits that try to meet the need when school is not in session also closed their doors for much of the week, leaving many families looking at bare cupboards. And many parents working hourly jobs were unable to earn any money during the week, as the snow forced businesses to close.

Caplon is a food services supervisor for Montgomery County Public Schools, where about 43,000 children are eligible for free or reduced-price lunches. Some also get breakfast, dinner and bags of staple foods to take home for the weekend. The snow days meant children would get none of that until Tuesday, because schools are closed Monday for Presidents Day.

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TOPICS: Food
KEYWORDS: food; globalcooling; jpb; maryland; schoollunch; snowmageddon; snowstorm
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To: ChildOfThe60s
"I ate PB and jelly sandwiches in the 50s and 60s. Now the libs would say I was eligible for free lunch, in order to avoid hunger. Bull."

I'm in my late fiftys. There was no free lunch when I was a young pup. I seem to have survived the ordeal.

21 posted on 02/14/2010 6:54:03 PM PST by blackbart.223 (I live in Northern Nevada. Reid doesn't represent me.)
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To: JoeProBono

Heil Hillary!


22 posted on 02/14/2010 6:54:12 PM PST by Rocky (Obama's policy: A thousand points of lies.)
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To: JoeProBono

DON’T EVER EAT THE YELLOW SNOW!


23 posted on 02/14/2010 6:55:43 PM PST by SWAMPSNIPER (THE SECOND AMENDMENT, A MATTER OF FACT, NOT A MATTER OF OPINION)
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To: TypeZoNegative

Angel food ministries is good. Its not free but it is real food (not a bunch of prepackaged garbage) its a good deal and they will take grub stubs.

Unfortunately for the couchtards, they have to get up on a saturday morning and go to a church to get it.


24 posted on 02/14/2010 6:55:58 PM PST by cripplecreek (Seniors, the new shovel ready project under socialized medicine.)
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To: blackbart.223
I seem to have survived the ordeal.

You only think so. In fact, your poor, non subsidized, nutrition has caused you to have blank spots in your memory, along with diminished reasoning capabilities.

25 posted on 02/14/2010 6:57:31 PM PST by ChildOfThe60s (If you can remember the 60s, you weren't really there.)
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To: JoeProBono

Maybe their fat-butt parents will hoist themselves out of their recliners and actually open a box of cereal for their offspring?

Years ago, I worked at a “summer feeding program” at an elementary school in my neighborhood in SF. Theoretically, we were giving food to poor starving children. In reality, very few children showed up, they obviously weren’t starving , because they threw away most of the food because they didn’t like it (it wasn’t potato chips and Coke, their main diet), and our biggest customers were adults. They’d get up in time to get to the school cafeteria by 11:00 with a stop on their way to buy lottery tickets at the shop down the block.


26 posted on 02/14/2010 6:57:43 PM PST by livius
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To: JoeProBono

This reads like something out of the Third-World. And in the NE no less!


27 posted on 02/14/2010 6:57:57 PM PST by ABQHispConservative (A good Blue Dog is an unelected Blue Dog. Ditto Rino's!)
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To: SWAMPSNIPER
"DON’T EVER EAT THE YELLOW SNOW!"

Watch out where the Huskies go.

28 posted on 02/14/2010 6:58:24 PM PST by blackbart.223 (I live in Northern Nevada. Reid doesn't represent me.)
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29 posted on 02/14/2010 6:59:11 PM PST by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet)
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To: JoeProBono

Gee, I fed my own kids. What a concept.


30 posted on 02/14/2010 6:59:52 PM PST by Lawdoc (My dad married my aunt, so now my cousins are my brothers. Go figure.)
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To: JoeProBono

Goodness know mom and dad can’t scrape up some Ramen Noodles


31 posted on 02/14/2010 7:00:06 PM PST by GeronL (Dignity is earned from yourself. Respect is earned from others.)
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To: JoeProBono

I grew up in poverty and yet, somehow my Mom put a lunch in my sack every day. The damn orange would put that big circular divot in the sandwich, but we were fed. For dinner, spaghetti for many, which none of us kids have ever been ever to reproduce.

As always, liberal policies just make people who expect mama gummint to do what is their obligation.

Weak, lazy people with no reason to live.


32 posted on 02/14/2010 7:00:49 PM PST by freedumb2003 (Communism comes to America: 1/20/2009. Keep your powder dry, folks. Sic semper tyrannis)
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To: ABQHispConservative
String of snow days deprives many students of food

Considering how they're planning to ban the sale of dense-nutrition food in school lunchrooms as a way of combating childhood obesity and how a major sector of obesity is among the so-called poor, a string of snow days could be considered by Obama and others as nature's way of trying to slim down her porky human progeny.
33 posted on 02/14/2010 7:00:59 PM PST by aruanan
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To: ABQHispConservative

Bet the parents could just call Domino’s on their cell phones.


34 posted on 02/14/2010 7:01:04 PM PST by AGreatPer (Impeach Obama)
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To: indylindy

exactly. These families have food stamps and other things.


35 posted on 02/14/2010 7:01:08 PM PST by GeronL (Dignity is earned from yourself. Respect is earned from others.)
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To: GeronL

36 posted on 02/14/2010 7:01:48 PM PST by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet)
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To: JoeProBono
The two snowstorms that pummeled the region, leaving more than 3 feet of snow in some areas, deprived tens of thousands of children from Virginia to Pennsylvania of the free or reduced-price school lunch that may be their only nutritious meal of the day.

It's clear to me that we need a government-sponsored program to warm the globe in order to prevent these snowstorms from starving our children in the future.

There ought to be a science to study this...

-PJ

37 posted on 02/14/2010 7:01:52 PM PST by Political Junkie Too ("Comprehensive" reform bills only end up as incomprehensible messes.)
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To: cripplecreek

Most districts will have at least one school serving lunch and maybe breakfast during the summer.


38 posted on 02/14/2010 7:02:05 PM PST by GeronL (Dignity is earned from yourself. Respect is earned from others.)
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To: Bean Counter
The key word in this article is “may”.

IMO, the key word is "free"...to describe lunch.

39 posted on 02/14/2010 7:02:59 PM PST by lonestar (Obama and his czars have turned Bush's "mess" into a national crisis!)
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To: ChildOfThe60s
"You only think so. In fact, your poor, non subsidized, nutrition has caused you to have blank spots in your memory, along with diminished reasoning capabilities."

I often wondered about that. I better go get some government cheese before it is too late.

40 posted on 02/14/2010 7:03:15 PM PST by blackbart.223 (I live in Northern Nevada. Reid doesn't represent me.)
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