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Re: tkc, lunches

By: tkc in ALEA | Recommend this post (0)
Wed, 24 Oct 12 7:07 PM | 38 view(s)
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Dig, J-T and CF. I'm very aware of all the arguments for school lunch. I favor the program per se. Should it now usurp all parental responsibility 3 meals/day 365? I don't think so. But it's pretty much there in my community and many many others. The kids pay nothing and over time believe they're entitled - that's bad. A large part of the program mission is to provide nutritious meals and be a lab teaching good nutritional habits. Total funding via USDA reimbursements, commodity donation (to support farmers) and paying students is insufficient to support that mission. Too many school districts need to subsidize their NSLPs w/ funds that otherwise would go to instruction. Thus the meals, much too often, are too fatty-too caloric causing generations of obese kids thinking eating that stuff is okay because the schools served it. It's counter productive and adds to current/future health care costs.

My stance is if the gov is going to do it, do it right. I believe it's a well intended program that needs to be modified to meet it's mission in a manner that doesn't produce such unintended consequences. I think it's just one example of liberalism run amuk; that though thought, compromise and management could once again be effective. Moderation. I can't see feeding kids 3 X/day -365 as the federal Gov's job. If States or localities want to and meet quality criteria, fine let them pay for it.


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By: DigSpace in ALEA
Wed, 24 Oct 12 6:22 PM 		Msg. 10986 of 54959

this is one of those cross-roads things ... yes, parental responsibility etc etc, but the observation is having a bunch of poorly nourished kids running around destroys education (for the neglected and for those with responsible parents).

So one gets an alignment of interests, welfare interests for those individuals, and the broad observation that running schools full of hungry kids is in some ways a waste of time.

Food, in this sense, is like books. Folks seem largely o.k. with buying books for children to learn from, food is just a book-tax. Everything just works better for everybody when one jams some food in these kids mouths.

I happen to be related to a teacher who, yup, sneaks food to a couple kids. It is much more productive for all involved than a new batch of pencils.


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