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Yes it has. The program is open to anyone who participates in an after school program and it has nothing to do with families receiving food stamps that is just not the truth.
Which students PAY for the meal, and which DON'T pay? It's NOT free for all. It's only free for SOME. Those are the facts you're ignoring.
And for the kids who get free meals at school? Their parents' food stamp benefits are NOT reduced accordingly to offset the additional taxpayer expense.
it's a national program. This article is about one single school.
70% of all US school children qualify for free or reduced lunch.
Think about that number...70% of all school children are on free/reduced lunch.
Food in school is now the 2nd largest expense after SNAP..$11 billion in 2013.
Which students PAY for the meal, and which DON'T pay? It's NOT free for all. It's only free for SOME. Those are the facts you're ignoring.
And for the kids who get free meals at school? Their parents' food stamp benefits are NOT reduced accordingly to offset the expense.
From the OP's link:
"Students who opt to stay for supper get a $3.21 meal for free through the grant reimbursement program, district officials said."
Also from the link:
"Since the start of the program, about 200 to 260 students have participated each day, Jacques said."
So to recap, those student who are participating in after school activities and are still at school at 4 pm receive a meal FREE OF CHARGE.
Those who have received meals is a sub-set of the total school population because, of course, in any/every school, not every student stays at school past dismissal.
There are a lot of people ignoring facts, but, that poster isn't among them.
It never ceases to amaze me the lengths that posters will go in these threads to deflect and/or ignore the actual topic of an OP and regurgitate the same selfish, biased agenda over and over and over again.
Any opportunity to bash your fellow citizens, right?
Their schools are participating is the school lunch program and their lunches that all the students eat are subsidized by the federal government.
If so, why do so many students have to pay for their meals, and are overcharged for what they get, while food stamp kids get free school meals? If school meals are government-subsidized for all shouldn't they ALL be getting their school meals for free?
If all schoolchildren's meals were really subsidized, as you so foolishly continue to claim , that wouldn't have happened. No one would have "owed" anything and all kids would have been able to eat their school meals.
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Brown bag a meal for 10hrs? Are you serious? That makes no sense and isn't practical.
Why not? Insulated lunch bags/boxes are cheap or even donated, and reusable freeze packs provide low-cost refrigeration.
You're just FULL of excuses. Is it any wonder why people who think like that are perpetually in self-defeatist mode and are doomed to a lifetime of struggle? They just can't ever do anything to provide for themselves. They're trapped in perpetually beholden and oppressed mode.
it's a national program. This article is about one single school.
70% of all US school children qualify for free or reduced lunch.
Think about that number...70% of all school children are on free/reduced lunch.
Food in school is now the 2nd largest expense after SNAP..$11 billion in 2013.
No, 70% of school lunches are free/reduced. Not all kids are necessarily receiving school lunches, many pack a lunch.
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Originally Posted by HappyTexan
Those are pretty alarming and not one seems to care.
Another fact I found out is that 56% of all US schools receive Title 1 funds.
56% of all US schools have below poverty students attending.
All this data points to decline and further dependence on government welfare programs.
This thread is not about Medicaid deliveries.
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, that wouldn't have happened. No one would have "owed" anything and all kids would have been able to eat their school meals. 