CT lunacy ping from the stammerer...
Perhaps the governor should instead demand that parents feed the kids breakfast.
Nah...that would be too sensible.
In our school there are a few kids for whom food at home is a hit or miss thing, but the great majority of kids coming to breakfast are fairly well off and the parents are dropping them off early for convenience sake.
My 10-year old nephew ate 2 bowls of cereal before going to school, he is considered a participant in the breakfast program even though he almost never eats it at school.
These kids are starving as evidenced by their obesity. Also, if interested, check out the dumpsters after lunch time and observe all the wasted food that is deposited into the trash.
When I went to school I carried a peanut butter sandwich in a brown bag.
Glad to have it.
Parents have no responsibility these days. Kids are fed by the state, brainwashed by the state, and taught sex by the state.
School meals are problematic in urban schools because kids don’t want to get up early to eat breakfast and they dislike the healthy options. It ain’t like the good old days when a free meal ticket would get you a piece of chocolate cake.
How times have changed.
I am the oldest of 6 brats from a dirt poor family. We always ate breakfast before school...at home, and mom would pack us a sack lunch. We wore hand-me-downs. When I complained that my shoes were too big, I was told to wear an extra pair of socks and that I would grow into them. Eventually, we had lunch boxes and I remember how proud I was to have one.
On the days that my mom would put soup in my thermos, she would give me 4 cents so that I could buy a small carton of milk. There were a few times that I saved up those pennies and used the money to buy candy on the way home from school.
I think I was 10 before I realized I was poor and even then... it was because other kids told me I was. By the age of 12, I had two paper routes, my own lawn mowing business, picked strawberries during the summer and bucked hay for the landlord.
Somehow I have made it to 64, supporting myself....... and I have never been in prison. It wasn’t that bad.....
This is the most ridiculous thing I have ever heard of. Kids need a good breakfast before they go to school, fixed by an adult who needs to take the time to sit down, have a quick prayer and join them before everybody goes their separate ways.
Even the little ones can make a sandwich, add an apple or banana, a bag of chips and a cookie or two to a brown bag the night before. This is a parent’s responsibility and no, they are not too busy. If parents would take care of their own kids in the first place this would never have happened.
Probably because they hate kids, you dolt.
Same here, FRiend. We're working on getting outta here, but I fear it'll take another couple of years... >:-(
As I remember CT has population that is fairly well off.
Maybe these kids’ parents are wealthy enough to feed them at home or get them breakfast at a restaurant on the way to school. Why have school breakfast program that serves few or no kids.
Isn't that supposed to feed the family?
You mean in Connecticut they actually feed their Kids Breakfast at home? What a Disgrace,we must all send our Kids to school for Breakfast. I mean what will happen to the reputation of the The left wingnuts in this state if we feed our children before they go to school? Oh the Humanity,I dont know if I can handle this. Thank You DANNEL,You freakin Moron