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in this country the day we can't give kids in school a hot lunch [thye are the future] while they are trying to learn the skills needed to succeed [they are our future] is a sad day for America !!no child should go hungry !!
Why do white kids have to pay for meals the negro and hispo kids get free?
in this country the day we can't give kids in school a hot lunch [thye are the future] while they are trying to learn the skills needed to succeed [they are our future] is a sad day for America !!no child should go hungry !!
HAHAHA. What a bunch of liberal twaddle. "Let's do it for the kids". HAHAHA
The issue here is racism. Why do white kids have to pay for meals the negro and hispo kids get free?
OK, here's one of those "back in my day" stories. Let me first say that during this time period, each school was part of a school "district", and was not then under any state or federal control.
When I attended high school (in Illinois) back in the mid 1960's, our parents had one of two choices when it came to our lunches. They had to sign a form which stated that their children would either pay for their lunches or they would bring their own lunches. There was no such thing as the school paying for your lunch.
Additionally, we were responsible for bringing our own notebooks, paper, pen/pencils, etc. There was a "book store" within the school where you could buy these items. If you lost or damaged one of your initial study books, you bought a replacement from the book store. All proceeds from these sales stayed within the school, and the profits went to fund other school activities, such as building a school 'float' for local parades.
Frankly, I think we should go back to that type of operation. The state or federal government should not be in charge of feeding our children. That's up to the parents, who should be responsible for making sure their children are fed, clothed, and properly prepared when they go to school.
Maybe you should just move to some place like India where poor is poor and no one feels any inclination to make sure people don't starve or that childen grow up healthy with a decent home and good food. .
Maybe you should just move to some place like India where poor is poor and no one feels any inclination to make sure people don't starve or that childen grow up healthy with a decent home and good food. .
How the hell do you know that "no one" in India cares if people starve or children grow up healthy?
Hunger is the No.1 Cause of Death in India
Hunger Facts
1. Hunger remains the No.1 cause of death in the world. Aids, Cancer etc. follow.
2. There are 820 million chronically hungry people in the world.
3. 1/3rd of the world's hungry live in India.
4. 836 million Indians survive on less than Rs. 20 (less than half-a-dollar) a day.
5. Over 20 crore Indians will sleep hungry tonight.
6. 10 million people die every year of chronic hunger and hunger-related diseases. Only eight percent are the victims of hunger caused by high-profile earthquakes, floods, droughts and wars.
7. India has 212 million undernourished people – only marginally below the 215 million estimated for 1990–92.
8. 99% of the 1000 Adivasi households from 40 villages in the two states, who comprised the total sample, experienced chronic hunger (unable to get two square meals, or at least one square meal and one poor/partial meal, on even one day in the week prior to the survey). Almost as many (24.1 per cent) had lived in conditions of semi-starvation during the previous month.
9. Over 7000 Indians die of hunger every day.
10. Over 25 lakh Indians die of hunger every year.
11. Despite substantial improvement in health since independence and a growth rate of 8 percent in recent years, under-nutrition remains a silent emergency in India, with almost 50 percent of Indian children underweight and more than 70 percent of the women and children with serious nutritional deficiencies as anemia.
12. The 1998 – 99 Indian survey shows 57 percent of the children aged 0– 3 years to be either severely or moderately stunted and/or underweight.
13. During 2006 – 2007, malnutrition contributed to seven million Indian children dying, nearly two million before the age of one.
14. 30% of newborn are of low birth weight, 56% of married women are anaemic and 79% of children age 6-35 months are anaemic.
15. The number of hungry people in India is always more than the number of people below official poverty line (while around 37% of rural households were below the poverty line in 1993-94, 80% of households suffered under nutrition).
Isn't the free lunch program income based?
Who knows and who cares.? It's all done on the honor system anyway. The minority parents just say they don't have the money (cause they spend it on drugs and booze) and the school takes their word and feeds their kids for free while the white kids pay.
That is total horse shit.
What's horse shit is forcing some kids to pay but not others. It all comes down to race - the white kids have to pay. And libs call that equal treatment!!!
Thats all total horse shit and you know it. Actually, maybe you don't.
Maybe you should just move to some place like India where poor is poor and no one feels any inclination to make sure people don't starve or that childen grow up healthy with a decent home and good food. .
How the hell do you know that "no one" in India cares if people starve or children grow up healthy?
Have you ever been to India? ...
'No one' is a general statement, probably there are some people there who are concerned, but...
but, overall, the government does not provide a social welfare system to take care of the poor and indigent.
How the hell do you know that "no one" in India cares if people starve or children grow up healthy?
Have you ever been to India? ...
No, have you?
but, overall, the government does not provide a social welfare system to take care of the poor and indigent.
Home: Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment, Government of India
Child Welfare Programmes
Schemes | National Portal of India
Yes, twice. .
but, overall, the government does not provide a social welfare system to take care of the poor and indigent.
Home: Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment, Government of India
Child Welfare Programmes
Schemes | National Portal of India
These are obviously not effective.
No, have you?
Yes, twice. .
Ok, and both times you took a tourist trip to India you NEVER met anyone who cared about children or the poor?
You said you work with Indian people. Have they told you that they don't care about children or the poor? That has not been my experience.
Oh, now it's "not effective." I see. How many times are you going to move those goal posts? If I were to point out an effective program, would you then change your position to "not effective enough" or "not effective throughout the entire country" or something? Are you just going to keep changing your position until you find one that almost works? It might be easier to stop making categorical statements that you can't support in the first place.
Those people who think there should be no government aid for people in distress have never lived in a country where this is, indeed, no government aid for people in distress. It brings the situation sharply into focus.
If you saw what it was like. People who are ill, people who are disabled, people who are deformed, lying in the gutters and everyone walking right past them, hundreds, thousands of people every day walking right past them, yes, you would say no one cares. It is part of the culture.
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