Lunch Shaming Children

[Timberridge]

Why don't you ask your friend how hard it would be to run his class room about 1:00 PM each day if the kids didn't get breakfast or lunch ? I don't have any great solutions of solving educating the poor but I'm sure this isn't a "urban" problem. Teachers in rural poor areas face the exact same issues. I guess we can always start having poor kids work on farms or no skill manufacturing jobs and take back work form China ? Maybe mix in some forced sterilization for low intellect folks ?

Or we could go in the opposite direction and say "hell with education" and turn our public schools into supervised activity centers for kids. I'm fine either way, let's just not pretend its school.

I also think you are equating poor with low intellect unfairly. I know plenty of stupid rich people.

[JimmyCarter]

Or we could go in the opposite direction and say "hell with education" and turn our public schools into supervised activity centers for kids. I'm fine either way, let's just not pretend its school.

Or compromise and have supervised work camps for the kids?

[Timberridge]

Or compromise and have supervised work camps for the kids?

Where do I sign my kid up? He could use a bit of a real world ass-kicking right now.

[TAFKALVS]

Or compromise and have supervised work camps for the kids?

Paging our Dear Leader, Kim Jong.

[goldengatestinx]

Wtf? 4 year olds can buy their food at school in America? Isn't that your job as parents to make breakfast and send your kid to school with a lunch? Crazy that some of you oppose nationalized "free" healthcare but allow schools to feed your kids.

4 year olds should be having lunch at home with mom. 5 year olds go to kindergarten. Parents need to parent and educate for the first 4 years at least.

[hutash]

^^^Sure, I've noticed the shitty parents. Hell, sometimes I think I may be one of them.



So school, instead of a learning center, has become a foster care center.

Maybe true, but it probably still is a better learning environment then home. Once you figure how how to get rid of bad parents then we can address some of these school issues. Until then we have to give kids as many chances as possible, and starving them is not a good option.

[iceclimb]

Our school takes pride in "not lunch shaming"..... yet, when the kids don't have a balance they are only allowed milk and a cheese sandwich.

1. Now all the kids know that the kids eating the cheese sandwiches don't have money in their account.

2. My kid loves the cheese sandwich, and will bug the lunch lady to make him one. He then gets teased by the other kids for being "poor". He thinks this is hilarious.

[mall walker]

2. My kid loves the cheese sandwich, and will bug the lunch lady to make him one. He then gets teased by the other kids for being "poor". He thinks this is hilarious.

your kid sounds cool. and in poker I believe this is called "blending your range"

[fatnslow]

american cheese sandwich with butter was a pretty popular brown bag lunch at my school circa 1977.

[frorider]

Man you old.

[Benny Profane]

Whatever happened to pb&j?

[TheSilverSurfer]

and to dump the food in the trash - in what world does that make sense?

Welcome to the dark side of capitalism

[sb]

White bread american cheese mayo and some Pringles with a banana or apple all tucked inside a metal GI Joe or Evil Knievel lunch box, milk in the thermos.

[TheSilverSurfer]

4 year olds should be having lunch at home with mom. 5 year olds go to kindergarten. Parents need to parent and educate for the first 4 years at least.

That's a great point. Too bad that so many people in our country oppose a living wage, health care, and any social support programs. If it wasn't for the right wing conservatives more people would be able to do what you suggest.

[wyeaster]

can't have war without judgmental, hypocritical warriors, big and small, far and wide.

[goldengatestinx]

That's a great point. Too bad that so many people in our country oppose a living wage, health care, and any social support programs. If it wasn't for the right wing conservatives more people would be able to do what you suggest.

Hmmm. Another solution would be to not have a kid unless you could support it. Choices have consequences. Bad choice. Shitty outcome.

Personal responsibility is looked upon as racist by too many fools these days.

[mall walker]

Hmmm. Another solution would be to not have a kid unless you could support it. Choices have consequences. Bad choice. Shitty outcome.

Personal responsibility is looked upon as racist by too many fools these days.

"I'm only pro choice until the child is born. After that it must exist in a hellworld of preventable disease and poverty / starvation."

[wyeaster]

Personal responsibility is looked upon as racist by too many fools these days.

way to swing for the fences

[hutash]

Hmmm. Another solution would be to not have a kid unless you could support it. Choices have consequences. Bad choice. Shitty outcome.

Personal responsibility is looked upon as racist by too many fools these days.

No doubt you shop at Hobby Lobby and think abstention actually works.

Get your head out of your ass and look how the real world works Pollyanna.

[goldengatestinx]

No doubt you shop at Hobby Lobby and think abstention actually works.

Get your head out of your ass and look how the real world works Pollyanna.

I didnt buy a car I couldn't afford. I bought a house we could afford. I didn't fuck without protection and don't have a kid I can't afford.

Heterosexual white guy who married a female, works, pays off bills and lives within our means. And it not difficult at all.

So yup. Seems I'm real world and my head is on my neck and not in my ass. Any other fucktard questions?

[TBS]

If you believe in equal opportunity, you have to support free meals for poor kids.

Simple as that

[Cruiser]

Whatever happened to pb&j?

Ugh, peanut allergies happened to pb&j. Sad but true...

[capulin overdrive]

Does anybody actually know how the schools collect for the poor kids that get free lunches?

Just seems like the poor kids should be set up on the gov teat, and fly through the lunch line?

As the article mentioned, it was the parent groups above the free lunch income levels, that they had the most trouble collecting from.

[TheSilverSurfer]

I didnt buy a car I couldn't afford. I bought a house we could afford. I didn't fuck without protection and don't have a kid I can't afford.

Heterosexual white guy who married a female, works, pays off bills and lives within our means. And it not difficult at all.

So yup. Seems I'm real world and my head is on my neck and not in my ass. Any other fucktard questions?

So essentially you think that poor people should not be allowed to reproduce

[old goat]

No one should be allowed to have children unless they can afford to give them millions to start being real estate developers.
Without getting the issue of whether or not poor people should be allowed to have children (are there no workhouses?)--sometimes people have kids and then get poor. Somethimes meaning a lot.
GGS--you can expect to be visited at night soon by a ghost in chains.