Posted on 12/10/2022 1:43:05 PM PST by ChicagoConservative27
Free lunches were used to force all sorts of other rules on the schools. Comply or we will take away those free lunches. School boards and local officials cannot understand that when you take money for a program you would not have wanted in the first place you then become beholden to the DOE for all sorts of other things that always cost the schools far more than they would have spent on the free lunches if they had financed them locally. Local pols simply cannot turn down free money. They cannot connect all the accompanying expenses that are costs on the schools with the offending wedge of “free lunches.” Nothing is so short sighted as a local pol seeing “free money.”.
The only way we can return our schols to education is o somehow get the federal government totally out of education. Callifornia and probably NY and the northeast coast sates would still be insane but the rest of the country could start educating its children again.
Maybe those on food stamps can start spending stamps to feed their own kids.
My primary school was a private American school in Istanbul in an old three story Victorian house with all twelve grades and 90 students. The principal was a tiny woman past 90 years old. We brought our lunches in lunchboxes and paper bags and were given an hour for lunch and manic games of team dodgeball. We had two additional 15 minute recesses in a 6 hour day. When my family returned to the USA in the late fifties, I was so far ahead academically of the public schools that They did not catch up to me until my junior year in high school. And in the fifties we had real schools that taught the three Rs.
I certainly has NEVER been free to ME..
Due to owning/inheriting property since 1966, I have had OVERLAPS in property ownership.
Bought first house at age 26. Now 83. Have paid out 89 YEARS for Property taxes on all those properties.
NEVER HAD ANY KIDS & NEVER USED ANY SCHOOLS OR LUNCHES.
NOT only is it REDUNDANT—IMO—it is fraud.
I am convinced that the welfare people NEVER check with the schools to see what kids are getting 1-2 meals a day already.
“MOM” gets welfare for 4 kids-—4 kids are getting 20-40 meals a WEEK at school.
DOUBLE DIPPING at it’s finest.
Calm down.
“I am convinced that the welfare people NEVER check with the schools to see what kids are getting 1-2 meals a day already.”
SNAP rules are established by bipartisan Farm Bill in Congress. There is no provision to “check with schools”.
Ok. . .so the law providing this ‘free lunch’ expired in June . . .
Who was President, and which party controlled both houses ??
We have a surplus of food in this country and one can easily find cheap or free food, especially if they cook themselves.
True. These damn handouts trash the real American values most of us know/grew up with. We knew we had to do our chores as kids, plus most of us boys mowed lawns and/or shoveled snow from driveways. All of us earned our way. Our parents did give us lunch money, but; no more. We carried our books on the bus to school. No backpacks. This Nation has been trashed. Not one boy has been by my house asking if he could work in over 31 years.
Agree.
Mine too. My parents raised seven kids with no help from the government.
They wouldn’t have taken it anyway.
Library paste! Yum!
Where I went to school, the last thing people wanted to get into was the free lunch program. And they would deny it until they turned blue in the face being on welfare.
My Mom packed lunches everyday and a nickel or a dime for milk.
Did you live in the Estonian mountains too?
Hi neighbor.
Nay, lad, ‘twas the moors o’ Yorkshire.
We were in the day of 2¢ - 3¢ per half ping of very warm and often sour milk.
They let the crates sit out all day and by the time we got it it was bad, and they would not replace it. They said (which I didn’t believe them) that they didn’t have any more.
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