Posted on 02/01/2015 7:32:22 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
DUBUQUE, Iowa — Ashley Rokusek ate mini blueberry muffins at her classroom desk on Friday.
"It's kind of cool to eat in the classroom," said Rokusek, a fifth-grader at Holy Ghost Elementary School.
This school year, all 83 Holy Ghost students have qualified for free breakfast, served in classrooms, and lunch during school.
Holy Ghost qualified for a federal community eligibility provision based on the percentage of students who receive free-and-reduced lunches through the National School Lunch Program.
Approximately 57 percent of the students received free-and-reduced lunches the prior year.
"The goal of the program is to reduce food insecurities," said Marie Miller, director of nutrition services at Holy Family Catholic Schools.
Wessels said families are saving almost $60 per month if they have a student who would have eaten breakfast and lunch previously.
Through a formula, Holy Family determines how many meals are reimbursed at the free and paid rate. Miller said the school isn't losing money.
(Excerpt) Read more at timesunion.com ...
That sure would be a disaster, Joey -- wouldn't it?
What a pathetic article.
Blueberry muffins?Wait until the Wookie hears of this outrage.
Creating more govt drones...ie gibsmedats
Maybe Obama can offer a free breakfast buffet to those going to free community college.
Create a generation that doesn’t know how to feed itself.
At my child’s private school, I refuse to fill out any form or have my child write any letter that could lead to ANY government freebie. I’d rather pay the extra $26 for that textbook than allow the government to stick in their nose.
Welfare Nation is our highest and most revered aspiration. My parent’s generation would have been ashamed to accept charity.
I HATE the term “food insecurity”. What a load of crap, I experience “food insecurity” every day when I can’t decide what to have for lunch.
I guess that is what you call it when you serve free food to fat kids.
When my children were in school during the 80s and 90s, I used to get yearly ‘forms’ their teachers sent home asking the parents if they worked for the government, worked on government contracts, in the military, etc.
I ALWAYS refused to return the forms - my kids didn’t like me very much for it because they became the object of ‘teacher inquisition’ about it. I was often called by the teacher or an administrator about it asking why I wouldn’t help them to get extra money to educate my child.
I ALWAYS answered back to them that I paid property taxes, a major portion of which included a hefty school tax, often over half the bill. I told them that I was vehemently against Federal government money for schools because it was abandonment of the very principles they were supposed to be teaching my children. I further told them I expected them to do their damned job with the money they assess every year for taxes, and that if they couldn’t do that job, then I’d make damned sure that the School Board Members who supported this Federal Government intrusion and brain washing would be ousted if I had anything to do with it. Lastly, I told them if they intimidated my children or singled them out because of this I would sue their ass off - personally.
I stopped getting those forms, and I didn’t get and questions after that.
I don’t understand how.people say there is great hunger in America.
Kids are fed for free at school. Some schools send kids home with backpacks full of food for the weekend. Record numbers of people are getting food stamps. We are in the era of Obama, though its racist to call him the food stamp president. Mama Michelle is putting her stamp of approval on school lunches.
This should be a golden age of plentiful food for the poor for all these reasons.
There’s anecdotal evidence also that some of these poor people are getting plenty to eat. Its odd that obesity is a problem among the poor.
My theory: breakfast is toted as ‘most important meal of the day’ to sell sugar cereal.
We feed our gibsmedats free breakfast and lunch in schools here in NJ; nobody wants to admit that white children would be seized by the state if they lived in such conditions as prevail in the ghettoes.
I don’t know what ethnicity these children are, but I wouldn’t be surprised if whites wised up and started getting their piece of the pie. Whites have certainly been doing that in terms of breeding “golden ticket” welfare bastards; why should others be getting so much “for free”?
I'd also add that a "director of nutrition services" sounds like something write out of a communist handbook and has no place in a "Catholic" school system.
It's no coincidence that kids were probably much healthier before we had this kind of sh!t in our school systems.
I'm sure it won't be long before our kids will be eating iPhones. /sarcasm only partially off/
Then the government nannies will wonder why the kids are obese. Crazy.
The higher the calories in school, the lower the test scores. Proof? Look up the scores from the ‘50s and 60’s, before the free lunch program was started. Keep in mind that the scoring isn’t the same as it was, because on an SAT today, 400 points is given for writing your name on the answer sheet.
I agree with you...1/2 cup of raw nuts much better...or even an egg...
Now, what does the Holy Ghost parents do with their EBT card? Come on, I believe if your kids are eating breakfast and lunch (and some schools dinner), you should not have full EBT benefits. If the taxpayers are paying for your kids to EAT at school, we shouldn’t have to PAY for waste...
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.