Nonsense! I suggest they try this . . . 
It is dirt cheap and you will actually live longer having it for breakfast everyday than you will eating bacon and eggs.
Posted on 03/17/2005 12:25:18 PM PST by Diana in Wisconsin
Maybe someone from school should come and bathe and dress your kids for you in the mornings, too? Somehow, I managed to dress and feed my kids breakfast, and pack their lunches, too!
The school districts in this article are not "poor" by ANY means; these parents (single or otherwise) CAN afford to feed their kids breakfast at home.
AND...Wisconsin has some of the smartest kids in the NATION. SAT tests are top-notch. So the "hungry kids can't learn" leftist creedo doesn't hold water, either.
One day they'll just keep them.
no mention about how many students use the program.
Nonsense! I suggest they try this . . . It is dirt cheap and you will actually live longer having it for breakfast everyday than you will eating bacon and eggs.
I'm sure if they can't afford Cheerios that they can qualify for the WIC program. But that might involve the
hard work of pouring it in the bowl for them.(sarcasm)
I guess being a parent no longer includes feeding your children. I guess the food stamps are used for a different purpose.
Perhaps this could be one reason for the epidemic of obesity amoung children.
I think i was a junior in HS before I figured out you could get breakfast at school. But you had to get their early and we had morning practice for soccer. That plus the social stigma of eating breakfast at school. I seem to recall that the "Cool" kids didn't bother with breakfast.
Yes, your children need to eat breakfast. Yes, it is immoral (and probably illegal) if their parents don't feed them. Yes, it's a fairly simple thing to feed your kids breakfast.
But guberment french toast stix are much more tasty.
"The fact that they can go to school earlier, was the number one reason why we went with it," Anna's mother, Jodi Toppel said. "Now that they have the breakfast there, it's a lot less hassles in the morning."
My thinking too.
"And the after-school sports programs are great - they even give them snacks. And often we'll take advantage of the dinner they have if we have to stay late at work, or if we want to go to a nice restaurant or some other event. And the evening homework study sessions really take the burden off of us in helping the kids learn. They're pretty worn out too by such a long day - which makes it easy to get them to sleep as soon as we get home."
AT last something the Socialist Republik of Doyle/LautensLaager can be proud of...
imo
Is she looking for breakfast or free latch key??
I seriously doubt there is a single school district in the USA where people are too poor to feed their kids breakfast. That's just pro-socialist BS. Now, there are certainly plenty of parents too lazy to drag their carcasses out of bed to make breakfast for their kids, but I'd sure like someone to show me a family in the USA who honestly can't get any food.
probably both
"One day they'll just keep them."
Yes, just keep the damn kids all day, feed them an after school snack, feed them supper, and a bedtime snack. Then drive them to our houses, put on their jammies, bring them to bed, give them a night-night kiss, tuck them in, and tell us when you are finished. That will be more convenient for us. Oh, and for the breakfast? Could you come in, wake them up, dress them, and then drive them to school for the breakfast. That would be SO convenient.
And then there's the problem of summer time...
Our daughter just loves to jump out of bed early and make breakfast for Mommy and me. She does a nice job with the cereal, yogurt, fruit, etc. Occaisionally even microwave pancakes.
Oh, did I mention that she's 5?
Wisconsin parents are the most responsible in the country. They actually (imagine!) feed their own kids breakfast at a higher rate than parents in any other state.
Well, it seems that there were "poor" kids that came to school earlier and got their hot lunch at school. It was then determined that it was discriminatory to make the "poor" kids come to school earlier than the others, so the choice was made to have all children come early. However, only hot lunch was provided the "poor" kids. The rest including my nephew had to sit and eat a cold sack lunch prepared by their mother, while watching the "poor" kids eat their hot lunch. And all in the name of fairness.
Geez, how frickin' lazy can parents get! God forbid she should get up a few minutes early to set the table with food for her kids.
What does it take to stock the fridge and cupboards at home with kid-friendly food they can eat as-is or safely microwave.
Oh, but that might take $$ away from the welfare money that Mom and her boy friend want to spend on recreational beverages.
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