Republican unveils worst school idea ever: Make poor kids clean floors
Rep. Jack Kingston has a bold new lesson for poor children: If you want lunch, you better work for it. Literally
THURSDAY, DEC 19, 2013 07:43 AM EST
JIM NEWELL
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But on Saturday, Kingston came out against free lunches, saying that children should have to pay at least a nominal amount or do some work like sweeping cafeteria floors.
“But one of the things I’ve talked to the secretary of agriculture about: Why don’t you have the kids pay a dime, pay a nickel to instill in them that there is, in fact, no such thing as a free lunch? Or maybe sweep the floor of the cafeteria — and yes, I understand that that would be an administrative problem, and I understand that it would probably lose you money. But think what we would gain as a society in getting people — getting the myth out of their head that there is such a thing as a free lunch,” he said.
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