Agreed. My point was that it's yet another step toward the nanny state. It's unthinkable to me that parents would let their children go hungry. What has happened to people and priorities? My parents would have done whatever it took to make sure I had food to eat and clothes to wear, and I would have, and did do the same for my kid.
This is also a sad testament to the condition our society is in.
Yep.
The parents make poor decisions... they should not be allowed to have their child if they will not feed them. I bet if you went to the home, there would be many frivolous things purchased that if they put their kids first, they just would not spent the money that way.
I will never have a heart for school lunch or breakfast for the supposedly "underprivileged" school child. I saw a lot of money spent on sweets, snacks, and non-nutritional junk the years I worked in the schools, I became disgusted with all the wasted food those supposedly "starving" children threw out.
Most received a breakfast they rarely ate. It hurt my heart to throw out the expensive milk, raisins, cereal and such these kids had no intention of eating. I had limited my own children with how much milk they used due to its expense, and here these free lunch kids had no sense of the value of the food and nutrition they blatantly threw out.
Most said they were not hungry, so I would suggest they keep it for a snack... no they didn't want it.
Then when lunch time came... they would rush to their backpacks to get name brand snacks like Fruit Roll Ups, Hostess Snacks, Doritos and Lays. Things I did not buy for my children because we were on a tight budget due to my husband losing a well paying job during the 0bama lost decade. The "starving" children ate the desert from the lunches, their own sugar and junk snacks they brought from home, and perhaps the fruit cocktail, but the main entree most often went straight into the trash untouched unless it was pizza or a hamburger... and again the milk was thrown out too.
It is a racket ... absolute waste of taxpayer money. You never respect things you are given at no cost to you.
I will say, if the parents had to make a lunch for their kid, they would probably put items the child liked to eat, unlike a school lunch that might not appeal to the child.
I packed my children's lunches every day. I put things I knew they liked and ate and were nutritional. A sandwich, fruit or veggies, a yogurt, things like celery with peanut butter and raisins on top (ants on a log) sounds gross... it's really good. I saved water or gatorade bottles from when we had events at church and reused them filling them with water and freezing them so it kept the lunch cold and provided a drink for lunch. The kids knew we were on a budget, but they had a normal meal. I made sure there were homemade cookies for the luxury item, or zucchini bread made from our garden. In fact my youngest just called this weekend to get instructions for the zucchini bread because he wanted to make some... it was not terrible. We were self sufficient in spite of lack of money. No government money handed to us, and my children still ate... what a concept.
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