String of snow days deprives many students of food

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[blackbart.223]

"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.

[Rocky]

Heil Hillary!

[SWAMPSNIPER]

DON’T EVER EAT THE YELLOW SNOW!

[cripplecreek]

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.

[ChildOfThe60s]

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.

[livius]

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.

[ABQHispConservative]

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

[blackbart.223]

"DON’T EVER EAT THE YELLOW SNOW!"

Watch out where the Huskies go.

[JoeProBono]

[Lawdoc]

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

[GeronL]

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

[freedumb2003]

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.

[aruanan]

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.

[AGreatPer]

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

[GeronL]

exactly. These families have food stamps and other things.

[JoeProBono]

[Political Junkie Too]

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

[GeronL]

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

[lonestar]

The key word in this article is “may”.

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

[blackbart.223]

"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.