School Breakfast Program in WI Embarassing

WKOW TV 27 ^ | March 16, 2005 | WKOW TV 27

[onja]

When I got around to it I'd eat breakfast at home. I'd usually make my own lunch.(happy to- Much better than school lunches up to high school)I'd get what clothes I liked. Didn't care to make sure it was by certain companies. I've always wondered why people will spend more money on basically the same clothes because of brand. Often a name brand shirt will be perfectly plain except for the name on front and cost a lot more.

[spunkets]

School is not a restaurant. Unless it's milk and cookies, the kids think it's commercial road kill.

[TChris]

I have worked with children's programs where some of the kids participating were from low-income homes, and the common denominator was laziness. The children frequently didn't even make it to school, because none of the "adults" (all female) in the house could drag themselves out of bed early enough to get the kids up and ready for school.

Yep. That's been my experience as well.

[gnarledmaw]

This reminds me of a show I recently saw part of on The Discovery Channel(?). There was a Russian kid narrating over footage of his average day. Every morning the kid got up and quick ate cheese sandwiches for breakfast because he had to leave the house by 4:30 or 5AM so that he could be to school early enough to recieve his mandatory bowl of buckwheat gruel for breakfast...