Posted on 09/29/2012 5:50:12 AM PDT by SMGFan
It’s bad enough that school children across the nation are going hungry on the skimpy portions offered through the Michelle Obama lunch menu.
At the Tewksbury school district in New Jersey, children who fall $3.10 behind on their food payments get one hard-boiled egg, a package of crackers and a carton of milk for lunch.
The Tewksbury district consists of two schools, one for grades K-4 and one for grades 5-8. Lunches at the school cost $2.40 per day. That means children are only allowed to fall one day behind in their lunch payments before getting stuck with the egg special.
The lunches at Tewksbury, like most in schools across the nation, are subsidized by the federal government. Frankly, we’re confused. We thought the feds provide low-cost school lunches because many children come from impoverished homes where the food budget is tight, or from homes where meals are not prepared on a regular basis. The government wants to make sure every kid receives proper nutrition and the dignity that comes with eating a full lunch with classmates. But at Tewksbury, kids who fall a day behind in their payments are left to gnaw on hard-boiled eggs while their friends eat the full serving on the menu. Apparently school officials are willing to humiliate children into coughing up three dollars and ten cents.
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Sounds ok to me. We have the most obese poor population in the world.
” I’d switch the package of crackers...”
And, I was thinking I’d switch the pint of milk for a Miller Lite. (In many years past...beer/boiled eggs would’ve BEEN supper. :-)
Only some have to. Others get it all freeeeeeeee!
The school lunch program is something that should never have been started in the first place, people will say that kids would go hungry if not for the program, which is nothing but a big lie.
If kids had to have the lunch program to keep from going hungry they would not have survived to go to school, they would have died of hunger before they got old enough to go to school.
The program is as every thing else is, another little way in the direction of government tyranny.
I don’t why any of this is a big deal. Have Mom, if she cares these days, provide a brown bag with a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. Oh.... Maybe a baloney sandwich, they were good too. Tell the school to hell with your lunches.
Yeah, well, it doesn’t always work out that way.
I once sent my daughter to school with a $100 bill for her lunches. She lost it. I had to seriously scramble for a couple of days to squeeze more money from the household budget. Thankfully, the school let her float for the rest of the week.
We didn’t have email notifications about school lunches until my son was a junior in highschool. I didn’t know it, but he was using his lunch account to buy ‘sides’. He didn’t realize that he was doubling the cost of each lunch with that behavior. Then one day he went to buy lunch and found out that he was out of money with almost two weeks left in the month.
The school was understanding. I managed to pay for an extra week, but they let us float the rest until payday.
Of course this was the month directly *after* my daughter had lost the $100, so that was *really* special.
(We then took every dime out of his butt. My husband made him move rocks in the yard for a weekend to pay us back.)
When you’re dealing with little kids, it gets even worse. And the schools aren’t all great about keeping parents in the loop.
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