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So... students don't eat lunch, and even frequently breakfast, at school? I call BS on that.
Look at the big picture... If parents are getting food stamps for the kids who are getting up to 3 free meals a day at school, their food stamp benefits need to be reduced accordingly. Otherwise, taxpayers are paying TWICE for up to 15 meals (or more, some schools have Saturday meal programs and/or send food home with kids on Fridays for the weekend) per child each week.
I don't know what students do at lunch and breakfast.
Again, the big picture is your uninformed projections that don't make any logical sense, so they aren't worth discussing at least to me.
The program that this is all about is a program that feeds all students who are participating in after school activities. They aren't at home to eat dinner, so why wouldn't the school feed them? Oh no logical answer to that question.
Then you move on to mindless speculation about nothing.
After-school meals are now being served to high school students who are involved in after school activities, San Elizario Independent School District (Texas) officials said. Supper is offered at 4 p.m. and ends at 4:30 p.m. at the high school's cafeteria. The program, which began May 1, is funded through a reimbursement grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture Child and Adult Care Food Program. Students who opt to stay for supper get a $3.21 meal for free through the grant reimbursement program.
They should just end the food stamp program. Make the schools be the complete feeding stations they've become.
By giving all meals to the children, the parents can more easily sell the food stamps or throw big parties -- by expensive foods -- which we all know they're doing.
If parents are getting food stamps for the kids who are getting up to 3 free meals a day at school, their food stamp benefits need to be reduced accordingly. Otherwise, taxpayers are paying TWICE for up to 15 meals (or more, some schools have Saturday meal programs and/or send food home with kids on Fridays for the weekend) per child each week.
I bet those parents who are double dipping are putting aside all that money so they can take their annual cruise or vacation in the Bahamas.
I would rather see my taxpayer dollars go to feed kids than cover the $60 per day it takes to cover the cost of an inmate in prison.
How so? How do the answers to those questions change the fact that parents are double-dipping when they receive food stamp benefits to feed children at/from home who get free meals at school?
Yes -- it might be different if the parents had to use some of their foodstamps to pay for all these meals their kids are given at school --- but these parents get to spend or sell the child's portion of the food stamps.
Schools even keep the cafeterias open all summer so that the parents don't have to feed their children, children can eat at school on the taxpayers' dime. Food stamps aren't going to the children.
I bet those parents who are double dipping are putting aside all that money so they can take their annual cruise or vacation in the Bahamas.
I would rather see my taxpayer dollars go to feed kids than cover the $60 per day it takes to cover the cost of an inmate in prison.
Since the parents aren't feeding the kids with the expensive food stamp program, it would be better to just end that whole farce and just allow the schools to provide them all their meals -- and cut the lazy do-nothing parents off.
Why are taxpayers paying for kids' free meals at school that their parents get food stamps to provide?
Why aren't food stamp benefits reduced accordingly for free meals provided at school?
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Originally Posted by malamute
Since the parents aren't feeding the kids with the expensive food stamp program, it would be better to just end that whole farce and just allow the schools to provide them all their meals -- and cut the lazy do-nothing parents off.
Did someone post proof that every one of the families of the approximately 200 kids getting dinner receive SNAP?
If so, please do point me to that post.
If not, the above comments are nothing more than mean-spirited speculation.
Did someone post proof that every one of the families of the approximately 200 kids getting dinner receive SNAP?
If so, please do point me to that post.
If not, the above comments are nothing more than mean-spirited speculation.
89% is the number courtesy of the USDA (which I posted earlier in this thread).
So about 178 of those 200 kids come from families on SNAP.
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