Posted on 10/21/2010 10:40:08 AM PDT by BenLurkin
D.C. joins 13 states which serve three meals a day at school – and to the tune of $5.7 million. Officials here have embraced the program because they realize healthy, well-fed kids learn better.
“We're reaching 10,000 kids a day at 99 of our 120 schools," said Anthony Tata, Chief Operating Officer of D.C. Public Schools.
That's about 25 percent of the student population. And another big benefit of the after school dinners are that more kids are enrolling in after school programs where they can get some academic help as well.
So the dinners are really serving three purposes - fighting hunger, obesity and offering help with classwork too.
And the best news of all is this is a federally-funded program.
“We're reimbursed on a per meal basis," Tata said. "We can already see the good it's doing for our kids."
(Excerpt) Read more at myfoxdc.com ...
So a productive taxpayer in Wisconsin and Ohio get to see her money spent on feeding the children of DC's stupid ,lazy or ignorant parents.
I’ll bet the numbers used in this story are low.
I’ll bet that most of the places in the US where kids get 3 squares a day(fed funded) are in Democratic run jurisdictions.
And obviously, the schools should also start doing the kids’ laundry.
This kind of charity belongs through a church so those receiving can be embarrassed or encouraged to do better and go to work for their families.
Ahhhh, can we review the metric on that one, please?
don’t their parents get food stanmps to feed these kids? or are the famlies double-dipping?
And everybody knows that cafeteria food at schools is just so gosh darn healthy.
Pretty soon, for a resident of DC, your only job will be to have kids at 17, and the Gov’t will do the rest.
Connecticut, Delaware, Illinois, Maryland, Michigan, Missouri, Nevada, New York, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Vermont, West Virginia, and Wisconsin
They just have to keep justifying ever-increasing budgets.
Can someone explain to me how a federal taxpayer, state taxpayer and local taxpayer are not the same people??
They also have summer feeding programs
Man, it’s tough being this smart! :)
Parents? With the nanny state taking over even the evening meal then the parents are pretty much out of the picture. The ghettos of DC are not so bad in outward appearance. Even most of the neighborhoods of Anacostia consist of pretty nice housing.
I wonder if the food stamp ration for the “family” (be it Mom or Granny or Aunt Ethel) is cut back when junior starts eating three-a-day at school.
What?? only 3 meals? You mean we’re not buying them clothes and Christmas/Kwanzaa presents also?
Yeah right, we all know that's exactly the sort of thing a fourth grader would say.
When did having a kid become winning a lottery?
Oh good, let’s just remove all responsibility from these kids’ “parents”. What about sleeping facilities? Everyone knows that well-rested kids learn better. Of course I’m also sure that these kids’ parents are not home ‘cause they’re working two or three jobs...
When did having a kid become winning a lottery?
meanwhile ... “Cuba ‘to end’ free-lunch scheme”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2356678/posts
“School lunches for adults, too”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2526610/posts
see you at the chow line ,comrades!
That is the same thing I was wondering about, and if they are getting food stamps, cut that portion from their allotment.
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