Posted on 02/01/2015 7:32:22 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
Dubuquers in the main love socialism, but unless they are either very well connected or perpetually adolescent, they don't like calling it socialism. It's an "Agenda 21" city, a "diversity" city, and a "welfare queen" city in that it soaks up a great deal of state and federal funds (and has paid staff lobbying for more on a full-time basis). The Catholic schools will have zero problem accommodating every fedgov string attached to this food. "It's for the chirrun." Giving up Jesus - or turning him into Gandhi... or Che - will be a small price to pay if they can keep just one child fed and baby-sat.
Mr. niteowl77
I bet Joey is raised by a 'I can't be bothered raising my kids' single mom.
Why not let the kids sleep at schools. Why should the rich have the only boarding schools. /s
If you are unable or simply refuse to feed your child, wouldn’t that be child abuse?
“The goal of the program is to reduce food insecurities,”
government working for a future where “food insecurity” will be our number one problem and government will have the solution, probably “soylent green”.
Dubuque, Iowa is another city that unions wreck. I know it was homes of meatpacking and there used to be a small engine manufacturing company there (Clinton Outboards).
Mine too. Our family went through some tough times but going on food stamps or even unemployment was out of the question for my parents. Things have changed though. Now its "Why aren't you on the government dole? You qualify for free stuff, you know."
In ‘89 I ran into the same. Didn’t know better, I filled oit the income form. School wanted the kids on free lunch. I turned them down, didn’t need it. More letters, a few phone calls, we finally go for a conference. I explain that if cash income seemed low, I got free house and free fuel from my employer, no problem buying lunch tickets for the girl and packing the boy’s lunch.
This point, the vice-principal suggested they might chat with Child Protective Services. Wife and I had just been through custidy wars, so I gave them my atty’s #, told them call him next time, I was done being polite.
Turns out, even then free lunch, family of 4 went up to $40K and it was the key to a bucketful of other grants and freebies for the school. The higher the free lunch, the more other money they got. Glad to have done my part to hold it down, this was a prosperous, rural system, lots of oil property helping pay taxes.
I HATE the term “food insecurity”
Oh yeah? Well, I’m your neighbor’s kid, and I “Struggle with hunger.”
And, don't miss out on the complaint here by one Ms. Dana Hollis about her "lack of privacy" in her public housing:
I wonder, was the number of students on taxpayer provided free lunch on Obama’s matrix of proof that the economy is the best evah’? Oh that’s right, the more people on welfare the better. Failure defines success for progressives.
And keep kids going to school to the point that the longer they stay in school the dumber they get.
I enrolled my two children in a church school back in the early 80s and the Pastor told us that if we ever accepted any government assistance because our kids were in church school, that we would have to remove them from the school. No vouchers, yep vouchers were being debated even way back then. No "free" government meals, nothing at all from the government "gimmnes" in any form.
It is the policy to this day at that excellent Baptist Church school.
By the way, I drove a church school bus to pay a part of the tuition. It wasn’t cheap but well worth the cost.
It ain’t free, somebody is paying for it.
Had nothing to do with Federal Brain Washing. Remember getting this type of form in the 50s. What it is for is to determine how many students in the local school district reside on military installations. If they live in on base housing, the school district does not receive any property taxes to cover the cost of educating these students. In some areas of very high military populations there can be many hundreds of students at local schools whose parents pay no property tax to support the school district. The Government makes an effort to determine the number of students that attend public schools and reside on military property. They reimburse the school districts for those students. That seems reasonable to me. Why should the local citizens, that pony up the property taxes, be expected to pay for kids whose military parents do not have to pay those taxes to get their kids educated.
There is damned little to No on-base housing in Cobb County Georgia311 harmony lake drive, actually none. The only place where there was was in Atlanta at Ft McPherson in another school system. This is about money for control, period.
here in at Langley USAF base, over 900 kids live in on base housing. Their parents pay not property tax to the school system. I lived in Amboy Washington State in the 50s, got the same questionnaire every year asking if we live on a military base. Not a post within 50 miles. Call it as you like, but this program has been around since at least the early 50s.
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