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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: JoeProBono

I like beef flavor


41 posted on 02/14/2010 7:05:50 PM PST by GeronL (Dignity is earned from yourself. Respect is earned from others.)
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To: JoeProBono

Providing food is what they are supposed to have parents for. But when you spend your welfare check on dope and trade your food stamps for crack...???


42 posted on 02/14/2010 7:05:57 PM PST by sport
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To: JoeProBono
Just knew this would be the thread where all the compassionate conservatives would be hanging out.

Let's see: We only feed, clothe, provide medical care, and rebuild the schoolrooms of children whose countries we've bombed first.

If the children are on US soil, they can just die. Unless they're preborn babies. Then they have to be born first, and then they can just die.

Have I got this right?

43 posted on 02/14/2010 7:07:45 PM PST by kittykat77
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To: blackbart.223
I hear government cheese is pretty good for some reason...

Just take any bathtub cheese from immigrants

44 posted on 02/14/2010 7:07:46 PM PST by GeronL (Dignity is earned from yourself. Respect is earned from others.)
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To: GeronL

I don’t even think I ate those crappy lunches they provided in high school. Not crazy about taco pizza and tater tots every day. Besides, I had to save up for smokes.


45 posted on 02/14/2010 7:08:11 PM PST by goseminoles
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To: anyone

Lot’s of cynicism in this thread. Here’s some reality. My better half was at the gym and her instructor asked my wife if she wouldn’t mind helping out this family. Apparently, a loving husband and wife had four children (2 teens and 2 toddlers). The husband died at a very young age and the mother developed an illness requiring her to be wait listed for a heart lung transplant. Being as sick as she was, she was unable to work. Buying a $600 car for transportation was a tremendous family burden. Fact is, those four kids were already heart-broken and are in a financial position not of their choosing. We have sort of adopted this family and have made it a point to help in any way possible.
Point of all this? It’s easy to lump an entire class of persons into moochers, but behind those classes are individual stories of real heart break and financial destitution and they might just need that little, and I mean little, extra help in the form of a warm school lunch. Sorry if I offended anyone, but as a person of faith, I felt compelled to share that story.


46 posted on 02/14/2010 7:08:22 PM PST by guido911 (Islamic terrorists are members of the "ROP", the "religion of pu*&ies")
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To: kittykat77

Who is dying here? A government agency deseperate to declare itself necessary?


47 posted on 02/14/2010 7:08:45 PM PST by GeronL (Dignity is earned from yourself. Respect is earned from others.)
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To: ClearCase_guy

Al Gore’s fault.


48 posted on 02/14/2010 7:08:46 PM PST by Brilliant
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To: sport

We had a half acre of garden I worked in during the summers. I learned to love fresh vegetables.


49 posted on 02/14/2010 7:08:54 PM PST by cripplecreek (Seniors, the new shovel ready project under socialized medicine.)
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To: JoeProBono

I like the sign. But it puts another thought into my warped head. I rifle, one round and Bambi = meat for several days if not for a month.


50 posted on 02/14/2010 7:08:57 PM PST by blackbart.223 (I live in Northern Nevada. Reid doesn't represent me.)
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To: goseminoles

I liked the tater tots.... My neice tells me they have Chik-fil-A in the school now.

dang.


51 posted on 02/14/2010 7:09:29 PM PST by GeronL (Dignity is earned from yourself. Respect is earned from others.)
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To: kittykat77
If the children are on US soil, they can just die.

Exactly how many children died from missing a couple of days of school, oh Drama Queen?

52 posted on 02/14/2010 7:10:17 PM PST by Interesting Times (For the truth about "swift boating" see ToSetTheRecordStraight.com)
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To: guido911
We have sort of adopted this family and have made it a point to help in any way possible.

Your CHOICE is commendable.
53 posted on 02/14/2010 7:10:21 PM PST by cripplecreek (Seniors, the new shovel ready project under socialized medicine.)
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To: TypeZoNegative

Flour, sugar, powdered milk, bisquik etc.

Very cheap to buy and store, avoids hunger.


54 posted on 02/14/2010 7:10:32 PM PST by padre35 (You shall not ignore the laws of God, the Market, the Jungle, and Reciprocity Rm10.10)
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To: kittykat77

Nope. But how about this? Most of us are plenty frustrated to be supporting kids of able bodied Americans who can afford cell phones and junk food but “can’t” feed their kids if the school doesn’t do it. That’s not the same as wishing them dead. It’s wishing them something better than their parents are giving them, namely responsibility and a chance at a productive life.
BTW I taught at a school where about 40% of the student body was on free or reduced lunch. Much of the food ended up in the garbage, wasted. Really *hungry* people don’t throw away food.


55 posted on 02/14/2010 7:12:08 PM PST by brytlea (Jesus loves me, this I know.)
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To: guido911

Actually that is a great example of how things should be handled but in 2010 the Govt is expected to provide everything.

Hat tip to you quido911.


56 posted on 02/14/2010 7:12:25 PM PST by padre35 (You shall not ignore the laws of God, the Market, the Jungle, and Reciprocity Rm10.10)
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To: JoeProBono

“Some also get breakfast, dinner and bags of staple foods to take home for the weekend.”

Three meals a day and take home food?


57 posted on 02/14/2010 7:12:44 PM PST by ltc8k6
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To: padre35

58 posted on 02/14/2010 7:13:27 PM PST by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet)
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To: JoeProBono

Quelle suprise. ‘Momma don’t cook’. (for one reason or another)

The ‘foodstamp queens’ in my town buy better food than we do.....and we’re on a very tight budget.


59 posted on 02/14/2010 7:13:31 PM PST by RushIsMyTeddyBear (I don't have a 'Cousin Pookie'.)
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To: guido911
"We have sort of adopted this family and have made it a point to help in any way possible."

That is the spirit of a true American. You did something not the government. And that is how it should be.

60 posted on 02/14/2010 7:14:21 PM PST by blackbart.223 (I live in Northern Nevada. Reid doesn't represent me.)
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