Posted on 10/06/2020 2:02:35 PM PDT by karpov
Dear XYZ Families:
I wanted to share with you some good news about our school lunch program. The USDA extended a waiver that allows schools to serve free breakfast and lunch to ALL students, until December 31, 2020 or for as long as funding is available. We are thrilled with this news as it means that we will be able to provide all students of XYZ Public Schools with nutritious and nourishing food for free.
What this means for your family and for XYZ Public Schools:
Your children, ages 0-18 (or 0-21 if SSO), are eligible receive a healthy breakfast and lunch every school day, at no cost, in a safe and welcoming environment. This applies to students who are attending classes in school or virtual classes at home, or a hybrid combination of these models until the end of December.
Through our community partners, we are able to provide school nutrition continuation at home for our students who are participating in the full remote model or on virtual days for students participating in the hybrid model.
It allows XYZ Public Schools to provide nourishing and appetizing meals possible for students. When your children eat school meals, it helps the school system by bringing federal funds to the district. The more meals we serve, the more funding we receive, allowing us to focus on meal quality, variety and innovative practices. If your children have never before participated in school meals, consider trying the program this year!
It helps save families time and money. By allowing us to prepare meals for your children you don’t have to plan and shop for your children’s breakfast and lunch each school day.
The Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education has requested that the USDA extend free meals for all students for the entire school year. However, as of now, the USDA has only allowed this as late as December 31, 2020 or as long as funding is available. Therefore, families in need should still submit a household application to determine eligibility for free and reduced price school meals. This will also allow students to qualify for any additional benefits and ensure a seamless transition when schools move back to a paid program (if the waiver is not extended for January to June 2021). The application and directions may be found on our district website.
In addition, we also encourage families in need to apply for SNAP benefits. SNAP provides monthly cash benefits (on an EBT card) to purchase groceries for eligible families. To apply for SNAP, visit www.startwithsnap.org or call the Project Bread FoodSource Hotline at 1-800-645-8333. If you are unsure whether your family is eligible, the FoodSource Hotline can assist you with eligibility questions. Families approved for SNAP are directly eligible to receive free meals at school and do not need to fill out an application for free and reduced price meals.
The high-income residents of our town are going to be socked by higher income taxes and other taxes to pay for all this "free" stuff.
I'm glad the "stimulus" talks broke down today.
We got similar email here in Reno, extended to everyone regardless of income or need.
The Jackson, MO schools made the same announcement yesterday.
Free govt cheese!
Tax funded? More like Printing funded.
There’s no such thing as a free lunch.
Grandkids go to school 2 half days a week...first half day they bring home enough food for lunch that day and breakfast the next day.....on the second half day which happens to be a Friday, they bring home enough food for lunch on Friday and breakfast and lunch for sat/sun/mon/tue...Wednesday no one goes to school, that's the day the schools are disinfected. The food consists of cereal/bagels/juice/fruit/pasta/sandwiches/1/2 pints of milk/cheese/yogurt/tomatoes/salads/tacos/muffins/cookies/peas/carrots, etc etc etc....some of the food is frozen...my daughter has three kids, she's gets enough food to feed the whole damn town....two weeks ago each kid got a half gallon of milk to bring home.
This is my job. I work in a school kitchen. The funding was approved mid-Sept, a last minute USDA decision that continues the program that started in March when our schools shut down.
It’s a complete mess. Our funding is based on head count of students. So the more who participates, the more money our district receives. We were told that we are losing $$ in the Food Service department due to the previous shut down and now remote learning option. Students aren’t in school to buy food/snacks anymore.
Our daily counts are about the same as pre-Covid. :|
FREE!!!
Same here were we live in Georgia.
I agree 100%.
The states presently probably cannot easily afford to help support everybody within their respective borders through the pandemic.
Sadly, this is mostly because the unconstitutionally big, post-17th Amendment ratification federal government is regularly stealing state revenues, and citizens’ wallets, by means of unconstitutional federal taxes, taxes that Congress cannot reasonably justify under its constitutional Article I, Section 8-limited powers.
“Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States.” Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
”[...] the care of the property, the liberty, and the life of the citizen, under the solemn sanction of an oath imposed by your Federal Constitution, is in the States, and not in the Federal Government [emphases added].” —Rep. John Bingham, Congressional Globe, 1866. (See about middle of 3rd column.)
Otherwise, instead of career federal lawmakers trying to buy votes as Election Day approaches, the states, not the feds, would gladly be paying for pandemic relief programs.
Send "Orange Man Bad" federal and state government desperate Democrats home in November!
Supporting PDJT with a new patriot Congress and state government leaders that will promise to fully support his already excellent work for MAGA and stopping SARS-CoV-2 will effectively give fast-working Trump a "third term" in office imo.
I don’t see any problem with voting Republican ticket for 2020 elections.
Insights welcome.
I wonder what these “free” lunches costs the taxpayers for eat one? Probably be able to buy a Prime Rib dinner cheaper.
In my day (I’m 70) there was a name for when parents regularly sent their kids to school without breakfast or lunch. It was called “Child Abuse”.
Most of the kids I see need less food.
And XYZ citizens, if you have EBT, you can use it to gamble at the local casino, buy your alcohol or drugs or use it at the local gentlemen club. The TAXPAYERS won’t notice when we raise taxes.
Aren’t the schools closed?
It’s always painful when you actually realize that.
Living through the years when any organization’s “help” when things got desperate it simply makes me shake my head at such things as this. When we came up against a wall we knew we had to fish or cut bait. It was up to us to feed ourselves one way or another. I picked Cotton before I went to school. So did the rest of my family. We raised a garden, we found sources for fruit (if we picked it) in nature or orchards. One can always find a way to survive as long as they learn how by being forced to learn, not by “giving” them everything. Handouts only make slaves. That is the truth of it.
Probably parents are too mentally diminished to prepare a breakfast for the children .... best option is for the State to step in and provide corn dogs, chekcpeas, and other MOO throw aways to them.
Our grandkids on Grandparents Day always told us to skip the school lunch. We didn’t take their advice, but should have. Brown bag or lunch box 70 years ago beat anything served now.
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