Should Poor Kids Work for Free Lunches at School?

MrsHyphenated

This is horrible.. my nickel, dime, or quarter cents worth!!!!

 

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/12/18/jack-kingston-school-lunch_n_4467711.html

vlagrl29

It makes me sad.  I don't think kids should have to work for their lunch.  I think it singles them out.

snp605

insanity. Heck no.

MommyLiberty5013

Um that's awful.

 

catsareniice1

Absolutely not!!

radcrystal

No!!! That is so terrible! I guarantee there is plenty of food for all the kids in school to eat in most cafeterias! We are probably wasting more than anything. 

lifeguard

  In the name of equality and responsibility. Everybody needs to work for what they receive. Otherwise they fail to appreciate and value what they have.

sandsonik

Really?  And how are the middle class and rich kids working for their lunch?  Mommy and daddy give them money that they give to the lunch lady; they didn't work for it so your stab at "equality" actually accomplishes the opposite.

lifeguard

Mommy and Daddy worked for it.
 My kids don't  get lunch money unless they help around the house and farm. The eldest two have jobs now and pay their own way if they don't want to brown bag.

moonprincessd

This is why we should just go back to kids bringing their own lunch.... probably healthier anyway.

RedheadBaker

moonprincessd said:

This is why we should just go back to kids bringing their own lunch.... probably healthier anyway.

How are poor children, who qualify for free lunch because their families struggle to afford food, going to bring lunch from home?

lifeguard

RedheadBaker said:

This is why we should just go back to kids bringing their own lunch.... probably healthier anyway.

How are poor children, who qualify for free lunch because their families struggle to afford food, going to bring lunch from home?

   You, me and society can not take care of all societies ills. Good intentions aside,there is neither the time of money.
   The other dangerous side effect of "freebies" from the "state" . Is the growing dependence of more and more persons who decide it's easier to vote for more free handouts. Instead of working. Makes more "poor" people. Great job security for social service employes however.
    Kids don't have food? How much food would the monthly bills for that smart phone and cable TV purchase?
      How many meals will one $30 trip to McDonalds purchase vs a $30 trip to the grocery store? 
   Going hungry should be motivation to get off your can and work harder AND work smarter.
    Kids going hungry? Cure for that is finish high school. And wait until you are at least 21 to be married. And wait until you are married to have children with a man who will stay around. I went to school, studied and worked instead of laying on my back under boys.
     Take away the single mothers from the "poverty" class and there is hardly anybody left impoverished.
     It's called being a responsible adult to look after YOUR children.
     Ticks me off to see how much of my and my husbands paycheques that goes to raise some irresponsible bum's children. Over a grand a week between the two of us gone to government waste.
    

RedheadBaker

Holy fucking shit, @lifeguard

Your solution is to let children starve??

vlagrl29

RedheadBaker said:

Holy fucking shit, @lifeguard Your solution is to let children starve??

That's what I was thinking.  That's some hardcore stuff.

hopecounts

A kid's only job should be going to school, learning, and following the rules. They shouldn't have to work to feed themselves. There are reasons why child labor laws were put in place. Kids should be able to be kids and frankly a kid who is getting free lunch has enough stress and distractions interfering with his .learning he doesn't need any more. Education is the key to getting out of poverty and kids that are hungry can't learn.

lifeguard

    Free doesn't teach anybody a sense or worth, duty, obligation, responsibility or gratitude. I went to my Grand Parents farm sometimes on evenings, weekends and summers. The calves I fed milk to were bigger than I was. Two bales of hay weighed more than myself. When of age I taught swimming lessons and was a lifeguard.Worked my way up to facility manager full time with 36 union staff.
       DH grew up full time on a farm and worked from the time he was big enough do chores. b.t.w. you should have seen the build on that man from years of physical work.He took over and managed the farrow to finish hog operation too while still in public school. His record keeping and innovations in the operation made his parents some of the most successful farmers in the area. He wasn't happy being "poor".
    After having to actually work for something. You value and appreciate what you have and don't waste it. Why should we have to give away what we worked for. To irresponsible and lazy people? 
  If you can't afford children, don't breed. It's just common sense. DH and myself as horny as we were still didn't have sex for months and not until after ensuring contraception.
   A lack of planning on your behalf does not constitute an emergency on my behalf.
   If there is a free safety net if you are careless and irresponsible. What incentive is there to be responsible? The safety net just lets more people be an irresponsible burden on society.  
   It isn't society that pays welfare, It's my husband and myself with OVER $1000 per week between us gone to the government.  I don't mind paying for roads, hospitals, cops, some military but not to support people who won't take care of themselves. 

CommieBasterd

I totally did not need to know about lifeguard's horniness levels. 

GeraldoRivera

lifeguard said:

Mommy and Daddy worked for it.
 My kids don't  get lunch money unless they help around the house and farm. The eldest two have jobs now and pay their own way if they don't want to brown bag.

Seriously, you make your children pay for their own meals? 

GeraldoRivera

lifeguard said:

   I don't mind paying for roads, hospitals, cops, some military but not to support people who won't take care of themselves. 

You mean....children? 

You sound like a pretty terrible person. 

Aknight1986

God forbid you ever fall on hard times if people like you are in charge @lifeguard. 

emily1004

GeraldoRivera said:

lifeguard said:

   I don't mind paying for roads, hospitals, cops, some military but not to support people who won't take care of themselves. 

You mean....children? 

You sound like a pretty terrible person. 

Not only does she sound like a terrible person, she sounds pretty ignorant to the world around her. Maybe she needs to leave the farm once in awhile to see not everything is so black and white. 

justbeachy109

lifeguard said:

    Free doesn't teach anybody a sense or worth, duty, obligation, responsibility or gratitude. I went to my Grand Parents farm sometimes on evenings, weekends and summers. The calves I fed milk to were bigger than I was. Two bales of hay weighed more than myself. When of age I taught swimming lessons and was a lifeguard.Worked my way up to facility manager full time with 36 union staff.
       DH grew up full time on a farm and worked from the time he was big enough do chores. b.t.w. you should have seen the build on that man from years of physical work.He took over and managed the farrow to finish hog operation too while still in public school. His record keeping and innovations in the operation made his parents some of the most successful farmers in the area. He wasn't happy being "poor".
    After having to actually work for something. You value and appreciate what you have and don't waste it. Why should we have to give away what we worked for. To irresponsible and lazy people? 
  If you can't afford children, don't breed. It's just common sense. DH and myself as horny as we were still didn't have sex for months and not until after ensuring contraception.
   A lack of planning on your behalf does not constitute an emergency on my behalf.
   If there is a free safety net if you are careless and irresponsible. What incentive is there to be responsible? The safety net just lets more people be an irresponsible burden on society.  
   It isn't society that pays welfare, It's my husband and myself with OVER $1000 per week between us gone to the government.  I don't mind paying for roads, hospitals, cops, some military but not to support people who won't take care of themselves. 

These are children that are already born. The "breeding" has already been done.

So, you don't mind paying for roads, hospitals, etc, but when it comes to hungry children who didn't ask to be born into the situation they are in, you call bootstraps?
8-|

msmerymac

There is nothing more pathetic and ignorant than a person with means belittling, shaming and dismissing the humanity of those without means.

This is how society starts to crumble. Rather than seeing our communities as something we all need to work on, and that we're all in this together, and we need to all work towards the goal of having EVERYONE succeed, people are divided into the haves and have nots and become greedy, pathetic and completely non-empathetic towards anyone else. 

CommieBasterd

emily1004 said:

GeraldoRivera said:

lifeguard said:

   I don't mind paying for roads, hospitals, cops, some military but not to support people who won't take care of themselves. 

You mean....children? 

You sound like a pretty terrible person. 

Not only does she sound like a terrible person, she sounds pretty ignorant to the world around her. Maybe she needs to leave the farm once in awhile to see not everything is so black and white. 

Or worry about the ins and outs of how to flash her husband the best: http://forums.thenest.com/discussion/12009046/daring-places-for-sex-daring-places-to-flash#latest

vlagrl29

These programs (welfare, unemployment, wic, etc) do need to be in place for when hard times come.  you may think you have everything now, but in this day and age NOTHING is guaranteed in life.  I would feel horrible if we lost it all, but thank god for those programs out there to help those in need.  Kids should never have to worry about anything and they shouldn't have to work for lunch.

RedheadBaker

"How do we have generations of never do wells here with all the oportunity."

How did you type that with a straight face?

Do yourself a favor and learn about the cycle of poverty.

missymo

Never do wells? 

Commiebastard? (ETA: Ahh, I see the "commiebastard" was probably supposed to be directed to a poster with a similarly spelled screen name. Still.)

What the fuck, @lifeguard? Your uneducated and naive opinion, as well as an obvious disdain for the underclass and working poor, is gross.  

gpointewife

good GOD, @lifeguard!  You are a raging asshole.  

msmerymac

@lifeguard you have done nothing to prove that welfare is a "career choice" for anyone. The average person on pubic assistance uses it for 4 months, so...

GeraldoRivera

LMAO at "somebody don't speak the language." Sounds like someone else could use a few English lessons herself.


I certainly hope you aren't going around calling yourself a Christian or something.

hopecounts

Anecdote alert but when I did a long term sub job 2 of the kids were on free lunch. Incidentally I found out that the mom of one kid and the dad of the other were seriously ill (dad had MS mom had cancer) each parent ended up unemployed which is likely why they were on free lunch. Your telling me those 2 kids should be punished because their parent had the misfortune to get sick?